Quality Chiropractor in Manassas, VA
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Today, both on this blog, and on the youtube video, I am talking about the second phase of spinal decay and degeneration, which is the phase 2 arthritis. Typically, Phase II is characterized by reoccurring headaches, 2-3 times per week or more. In addition, the patient in phase 2 may experience radiating pain down the arm or leg, numbness or tingling in the extremities, sciatica, cold hands or feet, and fatigue.
On the x-ray, phase 2 is characterized by mild to moderate vertebral scalloping—the bones in the spine begin to show spurs on the edges of the block of bone. This overgrowth of bone matrix grows out over the disc, and the disc space may show signs of disc thinning, as the space appears thinner on the films. Also, a phase 2 patient may have a pinched nerve in the IVF (canal through which the nerve exits the bone), displaying a smaller hole around the nerve root, irritating or pinching the nerve, causing inflammation.
Moderate to severe muscle spasms are common during phase 2, usually caused by inflammation of the nerve supporting the muscle.
Phase 2 is no joke, and these patients may have missed some work due to their symptoms. It is NOT to be taken lightly, and should be examined and treated immediately by a licensed Chiropractor.
Yours in Health,
Dr. Steve Lininger
Manassas Automobile Accident injured persons have a choice of medical providers. Truama patients should be evaluated by the trauma providers in a hospital emergency department. https://patch.com/virginia/manassas/police-fire
Many people are released from the emergency department with muscle relaxers and subsequently, the accident victim is often discharged from the hospital when there are no open wounds or visible signs of trauma.
The job of the emergency room doctors is not to get you to 100 percent health! Their job is to stabilize you. Trauma doctors are very good at this, and therefore, the hospital providers usually give the patient follow-up care instructions. Trauma doctors instruct patients to see their Primary Care Physician, however most primary care doctors have very little training in car accidents. Your PCP specializes in; blood work, infectious disease, cholesterol, diabetes, etc. Your PCP does not enjoy treating car accidents.
Many Primary Care Physicians prescribe muscle relaxers or pain pills for accident patients. Muscle relaxers and pain medications are only Step One! Your recovery plan should include more than PILLS! You need real HELP!
The PCP was trained in school to refer muscular problems out to the Orthopedist, however often this is the wrong office for you. Orthopedists are Surgeons and they are screening you for surgeries, therefore you do NOT belong in the Orthopedic Surgeon’s office if you do not have; fracture, tumor, or infection. Most spine pain patients have none of these and therefore, you are wasting the surgeon’s time if you are a non-surgical candidate.
A Trauma-Trained Chiropractor is a spine specialist who knows how to; order, read, and interpret the correct diagnostic tests. The Manassas Trauma-Trained Chiropractor must understand injury documentation. Your car accident doctor must understand how to work with several insurance companies. Your Doctor must have experience working with attorneys. Family Chiropractors have no trauma training. Family Physicians have very little trauma training. Dr. Lininger and staff believe consistent communication with your attorney and adjustor is important.
You need a Doctor that can read and Interpret MRI, x-ray, and CT. You need a Doctor that understands how to utilize advanced imaging tests to give you the best care. Most Chiropractors and PCPs can’t read or interpret a Spinal MRI! You need a doctor that can properly diagnose and care for your injuries. Your Doctor must be able to effectively communicate your injuries to your adjustor or attorney. The research shows that that the best provider for automobile accidents is the Manassas Automobile Accident Chiropractor, therefore, you need a trauma-trained chiropractor with experience and training in caring for the injured.
Your doctor must work with; Orthopedists, Pain Management Doctors, Neurologists, Neurosurgeons, Primary Care, Physical Therapists, and Neuro-Psychologists. The Manassas Physical Therapist is NOT the best qualified to handle your spinal condition. https://mychiropractormanassas.com/manassas-physical-therapy-dont-know-might-hurt/
Our clinic has established relationships with outside medical providers, furthermore We have the experience to know when and where to refer you. Most of Our specialists will work on a medical attorney’s lien.
Even if the doctor agrees to see you, you may be waiting a very long time to get an appointment. Patients referred from our clinic get Fast-Tracked, because we have established relationships with the doctors. In fact, there are specialist physicians whom insist on reading Dr. Lininger’s report before seeing you, because Medical Specialists value his documentation that much!
Dr. Lininger and staff collect and compile all of your outside medical information, afterwards, Dr. Lininger then builds a detailed and concise report tailored to your specific case. Dr. Lininger’s narrative case reports are second to none. Few NARRATIVE REPORTs have the level of information Dr. Lininger provides, and subsequently, this report can be sent to either the insurance carrier’s adjustor or your attorney. Furthermore, Dr. Lininger is a Board – Certified Independent Medical Examiner. Specifically, this Board Certification allows Dr. Lininger to certify your Impairment Rating. Dr. Lininger is trained and certified to utilize the American Medical Association’s Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment. http://www.abime.org/
Dr. Lininger has live trial testimony experience, therefore, Dr. Lininger has been on the witness stand in both trials and depositions. Dr. Lininger will testify for your case. Many Doctors shy away from Attorneys and Trials. Many Doctors are scared to testify for their patients! Additionally, Dr. Lininger has previously been accepted by the Virginia circuit courts as an expert and furthermore, He has been accepted to testify on MRI and X-rays.
Most Chiropractors do not have training or experience in Spine MRI or Spinal Biomechanical Engineering. This is very important, because a provider who lacks this training and credentialing will not be allowed to testify on your MRI or X-ray. Additionally, If your doctor is not admitted by the courts as an expert your doctor is invisible!
Dr. Lininger has extensive; experience, training, and credentialing in Manassas Automobile Accidents and Work Injuries, however, Dr. Lininger also treats many non-accident patients. Dr. Lininger also has a treatment program for patients with peripheral neuropathy.
We also treat chronic nerve and musculo-skeletal disorders. These include; neck pain, back pain, herniated or bulging discs, furthermore, your primary care or chiropractor may not know the difference between a disc bulge and a disc herniation. This IS very IMPORTANT! Do Not go to a doctor who doesn’t know the difference!! He can hurt you!
We work with many insurance carriers, additionally, Affordable payment plans are also available.
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Steve Lininger, DC, CICE
Since the recent bad weather in Manassas and surrounding areas throughout northern Virginia and the Metro DC area, it seems like there have been a LOT of car accidents lately.
Just on my commute last night, I saw four different accidents on the side of the road!! In my podcast yesterday, we discussed the fact that every American will statistically have an automobile accident every 17 years!!
That means that if you live to be about 80, you’ll have been in about 4-5 car accidents in your life!! Now, what scares me is that means that everyone has or will get into a car accident, and this “driving in cars” thing is relatively a NEW thing. I mean, we only started having this problem 50-60 years ago.
If humans have been around say, 2 Million years or so, that’s a drop in the bucket on the scheme of things.
As a Chiropractor, I know that there is almost always permanent damage to the ligaments of the neck and back in a car accident. I also know that Car accidents have a cumulative effect on the body over time. Ligaments that were torn or sheared become weaker than the original tissues. Gravity then starts to put force on those weakened ligaments, and that over time, can cause distortions to the posture of the body.
Human spinal ligaments were designed by our creator and through natural selection, to withstand only minor impacts, those LESS THAN 4 miles per hour. Humans were not designed to drive in cars at 40 mph, and then crash into each other. That’s something we RECENTLY chose to do!!
Ever seen someone with one shoulder higher than the other? What about uneven hips? How about somebody who’s head is on sorta, crooked? Or maybe they carry their head leaning forward, like it might fall off at any second?
These postural distortions are the result (usually) of a past car accident.
That person you see in church in front of you with one shoulder higher than the other PROBABLY has upper back and neck pains, maybe frequent headaches. Most likely, they can trace the origin of that back to a car accident or a fall.
What they may not realize is that the nerves in that part of their spine are compressed, shutting down energy from the brain to the part of their body that those nerves feed. Over time, this can cause degeneration, arthritis, disc bulges in the spine, as well as organ problems if the nerve supply to organs is decreased as well.
The reality is that even small impact injuries suffered during an automobile accident have long-lasting, cumulative effects on the human body.
That is why Anyone who is involved in even a small motor vehicle injury needs to have their spines checked and evaluated for misalignment by a Chiropractor.
Generally, a visit to the Emergency Room is NOT ENOUGH, as the ER physicians do not check for misalignment, because it will not kill you in the next 24 hours, which is what the ER physicians are trained to seek out.
If you do not show a fracture or cancer, the ER docs will most likely send you on your way.
Don’t get me wrong….
It is not that they are doing something incorrect!!! It is simply not their job to check the xrays for structural misalignments. That is only the job of a board-certified Chiropractor.
Yours In Health,
Dr. Steve Lininger
Chiropractor
Manassas
Manassas Physical Therapy for the spine after an automobile or work accident may not be the best place to start, however, after an Accident, patients with neck and back pain are often shuffled through the American medical system. Trauma patients are being referred to Manassas Physical Therapy. These patients often do not receive a thorough neuro-musculo-skeletal evaluation, therefore not fully diagnosed.
Automobile accident patients are triaged out of the emergency department. You will not be in the hospital for long. Trauma providers have the goal to STABILIZE you. Emergency Department providers may refer you to either Manassas Physical Therapy or another provider. Trauma providers will triage you out of the emergency department.
Visiting your primary doctor, most likely you will get a cursory once-over followed by a prescription for muscle relaxers. Primary care physicians do not want these cases, also many doctors do not accept accident patients. Call us instead! We can help.
Your family doctor may refer you to an ORTHOPEDIST, and so you go to the Orthopedist appointment, furthermore, when you arrive, you never see the actual Orthopedist. Instead, you see his Physician Assistant because the Orthopedist is in the operating room. The Physician Assistant is screening you to see if you need surgery. If The PA determines you are not a surgical candidate, hence he may send you to Manassas Physical Therapy clinic….
OR perhaps your primary care sent you to the physical therapist for neck and back pain directly by passing the orthopedist referral. OR, worse yet, the doctor sent you home to rest with pills only, however bed rest can make your condition worse!
The Manassas Physical Therapy Therapist may be great at getting rid of your symptoms. Research shows that for SPINE, physical therapists do not provide the best result. Combining therapy with Chiropractic adjustments demonstrates the best results FOR SPINE according to research. Physical Therapists are NOT TRAINED OR QUALIFIED to properly; diagnose, examine, or to order the appropriate medical diagnostic tests. You need a Trauma – Trained Doctor to determine what is going on with you!!! See Here: http://www.uschirodirectory.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=795:chiropractic-vs-physical-therapy-in-treating-low-back-pain-with-spinal-adjustments-vs-exercise-rehabilitation&Itemid=320
Initiating care with Manassas Physical Therapy without the proper diagnosis can injure you!! Certain excercises and treatments can cause harm to certain patients! Severe cord and canal compromising situations can be present and therefore, these patients can be harmed by care! This is serious stuff! Call us instead at 703-396-7770!
I am NOT Bashing Manassas Physical Therapy. Physical Therapists do AMAZING WORK! PT’s have treated and helped me personally. Physical therapists are not trained in; spinal trauma, therefore, physical therapists cannot determine if the patient is in danger of greater injury. Family physicians do not like treating; trauma, back and neck pains. Most Primary Care Physicians and Physical Therapists do not have training to personally read and interpret your Spinal MRI! http://www.uschirodirectory.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=758:chiropractic-vs-medicine-who-is-more-cost-effective-renders-better-outcomes-for-spine&Itemid=320
This Physical Therapist claims you don’t NEED imaging to be seen by them! http://rinardpt.com/what-is-the-role-of-x-ray-and-mri-in-physical-therapy/
This advice is alarming to me and taken as read could cause considerable harm to patients, especially with the trauma case. This Physical Therapist does not know what he does not know, Also some Chiropractors and General Practitioners have the same belief as he does! This physical therapist believes that a proper diagnostic work-up does not include x-rays or MRI imaging. Physical therapists cannot order or interpret x-rays and MRI, therefore he states that x-rays and MRIs are not useful. X-rays and MRI ARE MOST USEFUL TO The Trauma-Trained Doctor and the PATIENT!! Call us Today at 703-396-7770!
Even the Emergency Room physician is not going to completely fix you and here’s why: https://mychiropractormanassas.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2001&action=edit
I personally have spent the past THREE YEARS attaining post-doctoral specialized training, therefore I specialize in the treatment, documentation, and triaging of the injured patient. I AM AMAZED at how inadequately and poorly we treat these patients. see my CV here: http://www.uschirodirectory.com/index.php?option=com_sobipro&pid=100&sid=4021:manassas-chiropractic-and-rehab&Itemid=291
This Specialized knowledge has given me the tools to help YOU, especially when other providers fail. Call us today 703-396-7770!
I can read your spinal MRI and x-rays and give you a second opinion from a trained spinal specialist. We can tell you if your case is surgical or non-surgical.
I can help you recover from your accident, also I have the skills to properly diagnose, document, and treat your injuries.
Therefore, I can testify if necessary.
Contact our office today at 703-396-7770 to schedule a consultation!!!
We will work with your attorney. We will work with your insurance adjustor.
You do not need health insurance for coverage! Car Insurance covers your care! Call us today!
Respectfully,
Steve Lininger, DC, CICE