The Forensic Chiropractor
The Forensic Chiropractor
Jeffery Clayton DC, CICE
Healthcare relating to courts. Research as it relates to motor vehicle collisions, worker’s compensation injuries, slip and fall injuries and malpractice injuries.
Modic Changes.  What are they?  Where do they come from?  What do they mean?
Pathobiology of Modic Changes published in the European Spine Journal November 2016 by Stefan Dudli et al.
Jan 2
15 min
Central Hypersensitivity with chronic pain
Evidence, mechanisms, and Clinical implications of Central Hypersensitivity in Chronic pain After Whiplash Injury.  This was published in The Clinical Journal in 2004 by Michele Curatolo et al.
Dec 1, 2025
25 min
How do discs get damaged and what the damage means.
Mechanical Aspects of Intervertebral disc injury and implications on biomechanics published by Geoffrey Desmoulin et al in the spine Journal in 2019.
Nov 1, 2025
15 min
Long term neck and low back pain after a motor vehicle collision.
Exposure to a Motor Vehicle Collision and the Risk of Future Neck Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Paul Nolet et al and published in the PM&R Journal in 2019.   Exposure to a motor vehicle collision and the risk of future back pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Paul Nolet et al and published in the Accident analysis and prevention Journal in 2020.
Oct 1, 2025
8 min
NEW AMA Impairment Rating for Disc Herniation
Why AMA Guides took disc herniations out of the ratings.  Systematic Literature Review of Imaging Features of Spinal Degeneration in Asymptomatic Populations by Brinjikji (BRINJICK) et al published in the spine journal in 2014.   Inciting Events Associated with Lumbar Disk Herniation by Suri et al published in the Spine Journal in 2010
Sep 1, 2025
19 min
Evidence and injury podcast share
Aug 2, 2025
58 min
Lumbar disc herniation treatments
.  Today’s study is Prediction of Lumbar Disc Herniation resorption in symptomatic patients: a prospective, multi-imaging and clinical Phenotype study by Alexaner Hornung et al.  This study was published in the Spine Journal in 2023.
Jul 2, 2025
15 min
Upper Cervical Ligament Damage
Inter-examiner Reliability of Radiographic measurements from Open-Mouth Lateral Bending Cervical Radiographs.  The article was written by Karthik et al and published in the Chiropractic And Manual Therapies Journal in 2020.
Jun 2, 2025
10 min
Objective Evidence of Ligament Damage Beyond AOMSI
Diagnostic Accuracy of Videofluorosocopy  for symptomatic  Cervical Spine Injury Following Whiplash Trauma.  This was published in 2020 in the Internation Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health by Michael Freeman et al.
May 2, 2025
13 min
Shoulder injuries in a MVC with Dr. Kyle Bryant
Dr. Kyle Bryant with Integrative Chiropractic and Extremities. Functional Extremeties Chiropractor Abbassian A, Giddins GE. Subacromial impingement in patients with whiplash injury to the cervical spine. J Orthop Surg Res. 2008 Jun 27;3:25. doi: 10.1186/1749-799X-3-25. PMID: 18582391; PMCID: PMC2443117.
Apr 23, 2025
35 min
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