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Motor Vehicle Crashes are known to cause countless types of personal injury and you will need to seek treatment.
What is a Rehabilitation Support Worker?
What is a Rehabilitation Support Worker (RSW)? In the community, there are a number of titles our role has been given depending on how individual firms refer to the discipline. These include Rehabilitation Therapists, Rehabilitation Assistants and Rehabilitation...
Management of an Acute Injury After a Crash
Why is this different than any other type of injury? At some point in our lives, many of us will be injured – an unexpected accident. An injury. We stepped off a curb or lunged for a tennis ball and sprained our ankle; We fell - and broke a bone; We were...
There Are Huge Benefits to Seeing an Occupational Therapist as You Recover
What is an Occupational Therapist? After experiencing an injury or an illness, life can feel a lot different than it once did. You may have difficulties doing some of the activities that were once important or meaningful for you and you may struggle to fulfill the...
Victim of Pedestrian Crash Pursues a Career in Mental Health
One morning in June of 1999 I was in a pedestrian cross-walk on my way to the University of Denver where I held a post-doctoral research position. I remember feeling particularly happy and hopeful about my future. Out of no where, a commercial truck appeared...
The Benefits of Aqua Therapy & Hydrotherapy As You Recover
Aquatic therapy is physical therapy that takes place in a pool under the supervision of a trained healthcare professional. As I recovered from a motor vehicle crash, aqua therapy was recommended as part of my rehabilitation plan and although I was nervous and...
Recovering Psychologically After a Motor Vehicle Crash
Recovering psychologically after surviving a motor vehicle crash is common. When you have been involved in a serious auto collision, you may often find that recovering psychologically from the trauma is every bit as difficult, or even more so, than getting over the...
Keeping Receipts From Treatment Providers is a Must!
After being involved in a motor vehicle crash, you may have medical treatments by numerous providers to support you on your recovery journey. Whether you are having rehabilitation treatments at home, a medical office or a medical clinic, most providers will ask you...
Mental Wellness is Critical For Any Recovery
Mental Wellness is critical for any recovery and I’ve never been in a motorized vehicle collision, but I know you have. But I’ve always known I’m at high risk for breast cancer. Like a car crash, cancer may very well be just around the corner for any of us. At age 44,...
Seeking Medical Attention After a Crash is Crucial
Seeking medical attention after a crash is crucial and it should be the very first thing you do. I understand it can feel overwhelming after you have suffered injuries in a serious motor vehicle crash. Between dealing with getting your car repaired, finding...
The Challenge of Coping with Flashbacks
Coping with Flashbacks & PTSD For the past fifteen or more years I have specialized in providing psychological services to people who have survived serious auto crashes. From my experience in working with hundreds of survivors I have observed many common...
Warm Buddy Products Help Relieve Pain and Stress
Warm Buddy products help relieve pain and stress, and getting into an accident can be a very traumatic experience. Merely talking to the police and doing your paperwork for auto insurance claim leaves you exhausted and stressed. Once the adrenaline rush subsides,...
It’s Important to Seek Rehabilitation Therapy After a Crash
It's important to seek rehabilitation therapy after a crash because being involved in a motor vehicle collision can be a devastating and sometimes life altering event. There are many concerns and questions that a motor vehicle collision survivor will typically have...
Massage Cupping Therapy For My Crash Injuries
As a survivor of a crash, I am excited to share with you how I discovered massage cupping therapy and how much I have benefited from it. From time to time, if I move my right ankle a certain way, or I accidentally bump my achilles tendon which I recently did,...
Primary & Secondary Headaches
Following a car accident, with or without loss of consciousness, it is not uncommon for victims to suffer from either a short term or long term headache. Headaches can be classified into two main categories: Primary and Secondary. A primary headache are headaches...
The Challenge of Living with an Invisible Condition Called Pain
Since pain is subjective- each person ‘owns their own pain’ and has learned to use that word through their OWN experiences (injury, disease, condition). An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in...