WELCOME TO AUTO ACCIDENT HELP. Our office is BAKER CHIROPRACTIC, PA and we are a holistic, drug-free health care facility. We treat many types of patients, but, we do treat folks injured in auto accident, car crashes, collisions, mva, personal injury cases, car wrecks, call them what you will. Anyone can get involved into a traffic accident any day. All it takes is a car somewhere near you, and bad luck, and, voila, traffic accident. But, even though that might sound flippant, traffic accidents are completely serious, and at our office, we treat them VERY seriously.
Please watch these videos on auto accidents.
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 March 2011 06:12
Drug-Free Pain Management
Written by Dr. JOHN RAYMOND BAKER, DC
Saturday, 07 July 2007 09:54
Pain of course, is hard to deal with, and unfortunately, many people mistake pain for the problem causing it. People who have diseases in which they are unable to feel pain, can sustain serious tissue damage because they do not have the valuable feedback of pain to let them known when they are suffering tissue damage. Pain serves the same function as the warning light which alerts you to overheating in your car. Cutting the wires to that warning light, or taking the fuse out, stops the light, but doesn't stop the problem causing the light to go off, and this approach can cause your car's engine to fry. So, just like you don't fix the overheating by shortcircuiting the light, you don't fix the problem causing your pain by silencing the pain, but instead, you only allow the tissue damage to be worse. There are drug-free alternatives to vicodin, norco, lortab, and other opiate based pain killers. Of course, the prime goal is to resolve the problem causing the pain, and if you do that, the pain will go away on its own.
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 March 2011 13:20
Workers Compensation
Written by Dr. JOHN RAYMOND BAKER, DC
Wednesday, 20 August 2008 10:11
GETTING IN A WRECK, IF YOU ARE STILL AT WORK, CAN GENERATE BOTH A CAR WRECK AND A WORKERS COMPENSATION ACCIDENT. Workers compensation accidents can become quite involved, and sometimes, injured workers, because of the fact their employer and the insurance carrier don't want to work things out easily, sometimes, they have to get an attorney / lawyer. Car wrecks, due to the nature of things, often lead to the need for legal representation, and can be a pain in the neck. Know how to make it even harder ? Have a car wreck while you are on the clock, either driving a company vehicle or your own vehicle. One of the really important aspects of workers comp, is the need for the doctor to document ALL your injuries, determine causation, and the extent of these injuries. Here's a video about some of these issues.
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 March 2011 13:30
WHAT IS A PINCHED NERVE ?
Written by Dr. JOHN RAYMOND BAKER, DC
Saturday, 07 July 2007 09:54
People often talk about having a "pinched nerve", but when pressed to explain their understanding of what that means, they often either cannot explain it, or their explanation clearly indicates they don't really understand the situation well. Nerves usually DON"T get "pinched" as you might pinch a water hose closed. What does happen most of the time is that the paraspinal muscles, because of trauma, can go into spasm (a condition called "guarding") which locks the area down, and restricts the normal motion at that motion segment, or several segments. Because of this the normal flow of fluid out of the area is not possible, and the soft tissue swells, and this can cause an overall increase in the partial pressures in the bony window called the IVF (intervertebral foramen). An increase in pressure equal to just the weight of a penny, can affect the function of the affected nerve, and also , affect the structures it supplies (such as the leg muscles, the bladder, etc). Please watch the following videos.
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 March 2011 13:28
Soft Tissue Injuries
Written by Dr. JOHN RAYMOND BAKER, DC
Saturday, 07 July 2007 09:54
While people often think that having a bad injury in a car wreck is having broken bones, nothing could be further from the truth, because, an uncomplicated closed fracture in a health young person should health in about 6 weeks, but in the same young healthy adult, the time for soft tissues to heal if all goes well, is 120 days (4 months). Most fractures, if reduced and cast properly, will heal well without residual problems, however, soft tissue injuries often become chronic, and can give the injured person years, if not decades of problems. So, when they say you had a soft tissue injury, this can be anything from a "sprain / strain" to damage to the brain or spinal cord, since both the brain and cord are "soft tissues".
