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Shaw Chiropractic Collision Analysis for Medical Physicians This past year the entire physician staff of Shaw Chiropractic completed a 40 hour program in collision analysis. The program was offered by Texas A&M University: Engineering Extension in cooperation with the Physicians Academy of Physical and Manual Medicine. The program was geared towards expanding the physicians role and understanding when treating patients involved in motor vehicle collisions. I’m proud to announce that each of our physicians have successfully passed the course examination and have been issued their certificates from Texas A&M. You may ask what a certificate in collision analysis means to you and the treating physician. Lets start by looking at the term collision analysis. As of February 1999 the US Department of Transportation has recommended that the term "accident reconstruction" be replaced by the term "collision analysis". It was the DOT’s opinion that it more accurately defines what it is done when investigating motor vehicle collisions. The word "accident" has synonyms like coincidence, fluke and misfortune which would not be completely accurate in describing the collision event. On the other hand, synonyms such as hit, impact, crackup, crash and wreck are used for collision. Obviously, the term collision is most appropriate to describe what it is that is being assessed. Now lets look at the word reconstruction vs. Analysis. Reconstruction of a collision while important is nothing more than piecing together the facts available and applying some formulas. The integration of the reconstruction data into a opinion and theory is more appropriately termed an analysis. Using this logic one could appreciate why the DOT has opined that collision analysis is the proper terminology to be used when doing what was previously called accident reconstruction. Back to how this affects you, your clients
and your doctors. Since collision analysis
is more a broad description it would make
sense that the collision analyst have
a broader or more diverse level of expertise
from which to draw opinion. An accident
reconstructionist does not have any medical
or biomechanics training and therefore
cannot properly discuss the effects of
the collision on your client. Even if
the expert is also a biomechanist they
do not have the training in pathology
and diagnosis to discuss tissue repair
issues and the effects of structural and
systemic diseases which may come into
play with real world case management.
The only specialist who can integrate
these factors is a physician who has post
graduate training in biomechanics and
collision analysis. This is where the
chiropractic physicians at Shaw Chiropractic
can most assist you and your clients in
motor vehicle collision injuries. |
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