Hello Professionally Integrated, Here is an interesting paper that discusses CAROTID ARTERY INJURY after a crash and raises the clinical question if we should do angiograms after trauma. This is a tough clinical decision to make as we want to start with a more conservative approach, yet trauma such as crashes, have shown to disrupt the vessels of the… Read More
Hello Professionally Integrated, Here is a free video and paper break down on PTSD caused by motor vehicle crashes. I am not breaking this down as much as I normally do because this is not my area of expertise, but it is important to understand patients can suffer for over five years with PTSD. This can help with an appropriate… Read More
Hello Professionally Integrated, Here is a free video breakdown, as well as information for you to quickly and easily insert in your notes for improved documentation & patient education. This is a study where the authors looked at “low-speed” car crashes and compared them to the likelihood of injury during activities of daily living. Insurance companies and IMEs will sometimes… Read More
Dear Professionally Integrated, Here is a free video for you all to have as I want you all to be aware of this paper. Recently I testified in court and the insurance company, which happened be State Farm, used this paper as it is published in a good Journal. They use this paper to try and argue that certain types… Read More
Dear Professionally Integrated, Many times an insurance adjuster, or someone else may say, “your patient should be better by now”. Depending on the diagnosis you gave, this may or may not be true. If you gave an appropriate diagnosis, and that diagnosis matches your documentation, and you can validate with research, you can use the letter below explaining why that… Read More
Hello Professionally Integrated, Here is an important paper that looks at accident crash reconstruction (ACR) if someone can determine by looking at the car doing a mathematical equation if the patient is in fact hurt. Insurance companies try to use this often and there is zero evidence to support that analysis. ACR has no clinical relevance on our patients or… Read More
Here is a paper from John Hopkins where over 30,000 people were asked about their health and health-related quality of life to examine the consequences of MVCs. Out of these people, a percentage of them had a car crash and the survey concluded that “having an injury was associated with deficits in all domains of the EQ-5D (health index questionnaire).”… Read More
Hello Professionally Integrated, I wanted to give this to you all so you can watch how we offer payment options to a patient that was involved in a crash, or even if they were not. This is what we do in our office. If you are a GOLD or PREMIUM member of ProfessionallyIntegarated.com, you also have access to the full… Read More
Hello Professionally Integrated, Here is a list of questions I and the attorney had constructed and used in trial. If you go to trial on behalf of your patient, you have to educate the jury the best you can. However, you can only answer what is asked. This is why your patients attorney has to understand the injuries. Notice the… Read More
Dear Professionally Integrated, I hear a lot of people talk about adding “value drivers” to your notes that could potentially increase the value of your case for an attorney. I am here to tell you from my personal experience that playing a insurance game, such as adding certain “value drivers” that are designed by Colossus, a computer program to evaluate… Read More
Hello Professionally Integrated, Here is an important paper that looks at accident crash reconstruction (ACR) if someone can determine by looking at the car doing a mathematical equation if the patient is in fact hurt. Insurance companies try to use this often and there is zero evidence to support that analysis. ACR has no clinical relevance on our patients or… Read More
Here is a paper from John Hopkins where over 30,000 people were asked about their health and health-related quality of life to examine the consequences of MVCs. Out of these people, a percentage of them had a car crash and the survey concluded that “having an injury was associated with deficits in all domains of the EQ-5D (health index questionnaire).”… Read More
Hello Professionally Integrated, Here is a list of questions I and the attorney had constructed and used in trial. If you go to trial on behalf of your patient, you have to educate the jury the best you can. However, you can only answer what is asked. This is why your patients attorney has to understand the injuries. Notice the… Read More
Professionally Integrated wants you all to have this litigation fee agreement if you are asked by any attorney to meet with them or testify. Never ever schedule any litigation service until you have this signed and agreed upon. All too often attorneys will schedule depositions, trial, etc… and cancel at the last minute, leaving us without patient visits for up… Read More
I have attached a expert narrative that I wrote for my patient. Her attorney paid for my time which is standard procedure. I also including research references for you to use and how I incorporated research into my treatment. This way, I can further validate why I did what I did on the stand if need be. The blank numbers… Read More
If you are asked, and you should be asked by an attorney to write a rebuttal to what a insurance doctor writes on your patient, you should. This will take time as you need to read the full report and make notes on where the IME doctor is wrong and explain your position on your patient in detail. In this… Read More
Here Is A List of Trial Questions You Should Be Asked Do not expect an attorney to know the science and treatment as well as you in regards to your diagnosis and treatment plan of your patient. While you are on the stand in court, you can only discuss what is asked of you. That means, if you are not… Read More
Hello Professionally Integrated, Here is an interesting paper that discusses CAROTID ARTERY INJURY after a crash and raises the clinical question if we should do angiograms after trauma. This is a tough clinical decision to make as we want to start with a more conservative approach, yet trauma such as crashes, have shown to disrupt the vessels of the… Read More
Hello Professionally Integrated, Here is a free video and paper break down on PTSD caused by motor vehicle crashes. I am not breaking this down as much as I normally do because this is not my area of expertise, but it is important to understand patients can suffer for over five years with PTSD. This can help with an appropriate… Read More
Hello Professionally Integrated, Here is a free video breakdown, as well as information for you to quickly and easily insert in your notes for improved documentation & patient education. This is a study where the authors looked at “low-speed” car crashes and compared them to the likelihood of injury during activities of daily living. Insurance companies and IMEs will sometimes… Read More
Dear Professionally Integrated, Here is a free video for you all to have as I want you all to be aware of this paper. Recently I testified in court and the insurance company, which happened be State Farm, used this paper as it is published in a good Journal. They use this paper to try and argue that certain types… Read More
Dear Professionally Integrated, Many times an insurance adjuster, or someone else may say, “your patient should be better by now”. Depending on the diagnosis you gave, this may or may not be true. If you gave an appropriate diagnosis, and that diagnosis matches your documentation, and you can validate with research, you can use the letter below explaining why that… Read More
Hello Professionally Integrated, I wanted to give this to you all so you can watch how we offer payment options to a patient that was involved in a crash, or even if they were not. This is what we do in our office. If you are a GOLD or PREMIUM member of ProfessionallyIntegarated.com, you also have access to the full… Read More
Dear Professionally Integrated, I hear a lot of people talk about adding “value drivers” to your notes that could potentially increase the value of your case for an attorney. I am here to tell you from my personal experience that playing a insurance game, such as adding certain “value drivers” that are designed by Colossus, a computer program to evaluate… Read More
Here is a study the I, at Professionally Integrated want you to be familiar with. This shows many injuries that can be caused by “whiplash” and shows how “whiplash” is NOT a diagnosis. This also demonstrates how low the Gs are for a patient to potentially be hurt. The insurance companies may say that “no damage to the car, so… Read More
In my opinion, “whiplash” is not a diagnosis, but rather a mechanism of injury. If you have ever been to one of my presentations you would have heard me say this a number of times. WHAT is the diagnosis? WHY are you treating the patient? HOW is your treatment helping? Here are a few possible injuries that may need to… Read More
So much has been argued about “evidence-based care” and xrays. I believe many of these so-called “evidence-based doctors” have spelled “biased” wrong. Let’s take a look at what some of the evidence suggests about the importance of xrays to identify pathologies that may come on in the future. I also discuss what treatment is available to fix these findings, if… Read More