Posts tagged Car Accidents

• Car Accidents & Trauma Induced Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

  Sach Oliver | October 26, 2008 9:40 AM | 0 CommentsMountain Home, AR Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Car accidents can cause trauma induced carpal tunnel syndrome. Carpal tunnel syndrome is pain, tingling, and other problems in your hand because of pressure on the median nerve in your wrist. The...

• Traumatic Brain Injury Caused By Car Accidents

  Frank Bailey | October 15, 2008 11:20 AM | 0 CommentsMountain Home, AR Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  Traumatic brain injury (TBI), or simply head injury, occurs when a sudden trauma causes damage to the brain. TBI can result when the head suddenly and violently hits an object, such as in a rear end...

• Early Treatment for Whiplash Injuries Improves Results

  Sach Oliver | April 02, 2008 10:02 AM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  After someone has been in a car accident, the chances are high they suffered a hyperextension/ hyperflexion injury or more commonly known as whiplash. Studies have shown the sooner the person seeks...

• Car Accidents Cause Herniated Disc

  Sach Oliver | March 24, 2008 6:59 AM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Motor vehicle accidents cause herniated disc. A disc is a structure that is found between the spinal vertebral bodies from the neck to the tailbone. Discs serves as cushions and help your spine move. A disc is composed of two parts the central part and the outer part. When someone is a car accident where the back is injured, it is common for them to suffer a herniated disc. A herniated disc is...

• Closed Head Injuries More Common than You Think

  Drew Dixon | March 05, 2008 4:53 PM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Open head injuries can be easily identified, but what happens if you have a closed head injury? Closed head injuries occur when there is trauma to the brain that does not result in a skull fracture. Because the injury does not cause a skull fracture, a closed head injury may go unnoticed and untreated for several days. Closed head injuries commonly occur during a car accident. During a wreck...

• Helpful Tips on Motorcycle Safety

  Drew Dixon | February 27, 2008 4:40 PM | 0 CommentsBentonville , AR Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Motorcycle dealers have seen a dramatic increase in the number of new motorcycle sales. With oil prices nearing $100 per barrel new unit sales of motorcycles have increased 24 percent since the last decade. In fact, new motorcycle sales annually top 1 million units. Unfortunately, with the increase in sales comes an increase in the number of motorcycle crashes and fatalities. According to...

• Seatbelts Can Fail

  Frank Bailey | February 27, 2008 4:00 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  As much as we depend on seatbelts to save lives, you would think seatbelts would never fail. This is not always true. A jury in West Palm Beach Florida ordered Mitsubishe to pay $11,000,000 in damages to the parents of their 25 year old son Scott, who died after being partially ejected from a SUV made by Mitsubishi.Attorneys representing the family argued that Mitsubishi sold the SUV even...

• Traumatic Brain Injury...The Unseen Harm

  Frank Bailey | February 22, 2008 2:44 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  After a wreck, traumatic Brain Injury often goes undiagnosed in the Emergency Room. The doctors are worried about broken bones and other serious injuries and often overlook the most serious injury of all, traumatic brain injury (TBI). Every year, one in five hundred Americans have a TBI.Not long ago, unlike a broken bone or a herniated disc, most TBI was invisible. This made this type of case...

• Car Crash Not Always Driver's Fault

  Drew Dixon | February 21, 2008 2:59 PM | 0 CommentsLittle Rock, AR Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  There were nearly 6,420,000 auto wrecks in the United States in 2005. Of those 6,420,000 wrecks more than 2,900,000 people were injured and 42,636 people were killed. That means that every ten seconds someone in the United States is involved in a car wreck. Most often those wrecks are the result of driver negligence due to the driver's failure to obey traffic laws, use of a cell phone, or use...

• Too Many Buses Are Crashing

  Frank Bailey | January 09, 2008 3:28 PM | 0 CommentsJonesboro, AR Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Recently a bus crashed in Arkansas killing three passengers. The bus which was headed to Dallas, Texas and coming from Milwaukee. The driver had been driving straight for seventeen hours without sleep. There were forty-six passengers on that bus when it crossed the grassy median 12 miles east of Forrest City, Arkansas at 10:10 p.m. on November 25.The bus struck a pickup, killing its driver,...