The Forensic Chiropractor

Loss of cervical lordosis

Abnormal Static Sagittal Cervical Curvatures Following Motor Vehicle Collisions: A Retrospective Case Series of 41 Patients Before and After a Crash Exposure.  This was published in the diagnostics journal in 2024 by Haas et al.  

Can the spinal cord cause pain?

The Innervation of the Spinal Dura Mater by M A Edgar and S Nundy in the Journal of neurosurgery and psychiatry.  

Chronological age Vs. Physiological age

Spectrum of Imaging Findings in Hyperextension injuries of the neck published by Sameet Rao et al in Radiographics journal in 2005.

Schmorl's nodes

2013 study published in the European spine journal by Stig Sonne-Holm et al. titled The epidemiology of Schmorl’s nodes and their correlation to radiographic degeneration in 4,151 subjects.

Motor vehicle collisions and brain injuries.

This article was published in the Neurosurgical focus 14th edition in 2024.  This was written by Vikas Vattipally et al. titled Motor vehicle collision characteristics and hospitalization outcomes associated with mild traumatic brain injury and concomitant whiplash injury.   

Thoracic AOMSI

A Biomechanical study of the Ligamentous Stability of the Thoracic Spine in Man published by Panjabi, Hausfeld and white in Scandinavian orthopedic journal in 1981.  

How to make sure there age degenerative changes on x-ray.

The Diagnostic Value of an X‐ray‐based Scoring System for Degeneration of the Cervical Spine: A Reproducibility and Validation Study  by Maarten VanErd et al published in the Pain Practice Journal 2021. 

Lumbar AOMSI

A biomechanical analysis of the clinical stability of the lumbar and lumbosacral spine by IRA Posner et al.  This was published in the spine journal in 1982.  
Clinical biomechanics of the spine 2nd edition by Augustus A. White III and Manohar Panjabi.  
 

Modic changes and treatment

Transforaminal Epiduroscopic Basivertebral Nerve Laser Ablation for Chronic Low Back Pain Associated with Modic Changes: A preliminary Open-Label Study.   

Facet Joints & Soft Tissue

Prevalence of Facet Joint Pain in Chronic Spinal Pain of Cervical, Thoracic and lumbar regions by laxmaiah macnhikanti et al published in the BMC musculoskeletal disorders journal in 2004.