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Car accidents have always been hazardous and they cause many long lasting severe injuries. These injures can stop one’s life forever so such injuries caused by car accident should not be ignored even though it is a small one. People who get injury by car accident should get immediate treatment because  if the injury remains untreated, it will start showing its bad affects, which may lead to another injury. Below are some injuries caused by car accident so take a look, and increase your knowledge regarding injuries occurred by car accidents.

You can experience Psychological Trauma after Car Accident

This seems to be very dangerous injury but the noticeable point is that people only focus and consider the physical injuries occurred by severe road accident. It has been observed by many psychologists that emotional trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are equally capable to damage your body as physical injuries do. You need to know that there are a lot of cases of PTSD caused by car accidents than any other reason behind (PTSD). Although car accident has not caused any severe injury but still there is a need that all the passengers and drivers get medical attention to fight against stress, which scares them to get back to roads.

You may come across Neck Injury after road accident

It is also one of the hazardous injuries occurred at road accident. The neck is one of the most sensitive parts of your body and it is the most affected part in car crash, according to the (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke). Whiplash emerges when you immediately move or extend your neck and this pain of neck may extend to three months.

You Might Get Head Injury by road accident

It is understood that in many car accidents, heads get affected badly and this specific injury is considered to the most common injury.  Severe head injury can lead to many more injuries which eventually cause death, and this injury’s span is from minor concussions to traumatic brain injuries.

What do you know about Lacerations?

You need to know that many typical car accidents caused by discarded objects which remain on the road and flying glass, car parts and road signs mostly cause injuries at the moment of impact. The span of laceration and cuts is from minor scrapes and bruises to severe wounds, which can cause massive blood loss.

Spinal and back injuries

These both elements of your body are at high risk of getting injured in a car accident. You must know that severe accidents can often lead to back pain and sprains. Moreover, hazardous spinal injury can decrease mobility of your body.

Safe drive is what you need to focus on

After going through all these road accident injuries, you must have surely understood how severe the outcomes are of worst driving. So in order to avoid any injury you really have to focus on safe driving. Learning safe driving is compulsion for each of us to avoid and lessen road accidents.

Spinal Compression Fractures are fractures of the vertebrae that are caused by compression, or excessive pushing of one bone against another. They usually occur in the thoracic and lumbar sections of the spine. Moreover they can also be caused by traumatic injury or as a result of osteoporosis.

Vertebroplasty & Kyphoplasty, having a strong direct link with these fractures are basically two invasive procedures used to treat the painful vertebral compression fractures, involving the vertebral bodies that make up the spinal column.

What happens in Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty?

• In Vertebroplasty Procedure, the physicians inject a cement mixture with the help of image guidance into the fractured bone through a hollow needle.
• In the Kyphoplasty procedure, first a balloon is inserted into the fractured bone through a hollow needle in order to create a space or cavity. When the balloon is removed, the cement is injected into the cavity.

Common uses of these Procedures:

The result of osteoporosis if not properly treated may lead to the painful vertebral compression fracture in the spine. This chronic condition can be treated with the help of vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty.

Furthermore, these two procedures are also performed on the patients who:

• Are elderly or frail and can have an impaired bone healing after a fracture.
• Are going through vertebral compression due to a malignant tumor.
• Are suffering from osteoporosis due to long term steroid treatment or a metabolic disorder.

In order to achieve highest success ratio for the treatment vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty should be completed within eight weeks of the acute fracture.

 Benefits vs. Risks

Benefits

• With vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty there will be an increase in a person’s functional abilities that will revert you back to the previous level of activity.
• The procedures are highly beneficial for alleviating a pain faced after spinal compression fracture.
• Following vertebroplasty 75% of the patients may definitely regain lost mobility and become more active. This will eventually help them in combating osteoporosis.
• Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty are both safe and effective procedures.
• In these treatments no surgical incision is needed, only a small nick is made in the skin that does not have to be stitched closed.

Risks:

• It is understood that whenever the skin is penetrated, there is always a risk of infection.
• A small amount of orthopedic cement can leak out of the vertebral body; this can create serious problems if the leakage moves out to the spinal canal or the blood vessels of the lungs.
• Some possible complications include, bleeding, infection, increased back pain and neurological symptoms such as numbness or tingling.
• A low risk of allergic reaction to the medications.

Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty are best procedures if you are suffering from spinal compression fractures. It’s true that there are risks in many treatments but in order to get rid or pull yourself back from a bigger problem these risks shouldn’t matter in front of a proper treatment that will prevent you from landing in an immobile state.

A Compression Fracture occurs when the bones of the spine i.e. the vertebrae collapses. Such fracture can lead to the destruction of our vertebrae completely leaving us in poor posture, in acute pain, and loss of height etc.

How do you fall prey to compression fractures?

Osteoporosis is the most common reason that can lead you to such fractures. As a result of this disease, spine bones become weak and they are totally unable to support normal stress and pressure. And eventually, by only coughing, twisting or lifting the vertebra will be fractured.

Furthermore, an injury to the spine which is so hard that it has affected your buttocks or a blow on the head can cause spinal compression fracture. Such fractures also occur, if cancer spreads in the whole body and weakens the spine bone.

Check the below symptoms for Compression Fractures:

Generally the symptoms that link your bodily issues with compression fractures include:

• Persisting back pain
• Loss of height
• Stooped Posture
• Numbness or tingling in the legs or back
• Weakness
• Problems in walking
• Loss of bowel or bladder control.

What should be done to cure the fractures?

Since months if you are taking medications, or following non surgical treatments, and you still left with pain not being diminished at all; as if the pain has not responded to the medications at all or you are even unable to complete the daily routine work then its better that you consider one sufficient surgical treatment known as microdiscectomy.

Microdiscectomy will help treat Compression Fractures

Microdiscectomy typically performed for the back pain issues or the herniated lumbar disc, is actually more effective in alleviating pain. The major aim of this surgery is to relieve back pain by taking off the pressure from the nerves.

In the surgical process the surgeon first visualizes the nerve root. A little part from the inside of the facet joint is removed which eases the access to nerve root and relieves the pressure from the nerve. Then the disc fragment is removed from under the nerve root.

As after this surgery, all the joints, the ligaments and muscles are left intact so there is no change in the lower spine’s mechanical structure of the patient.

After this surgery

The chronic pains that you have been facing for so long due to the fractures are relieved to a greater extent after this treatment and the patients will be able to resume their activity within 2 weeks of the procedure. But microdiscectomy will only act as a cure, if you after this procedure take a lot of care of yourself, keep taking the medications strictly, protect yourself from any huge injuries, have a balanced and nutritious diet etc.

Hence, aim for quicker recovery and less pain as everyone is important for their loved ones. And when your target will be such you will choose for yourself the perfect treatment that will eventually grant you relief from the excruciating pain that you were once facing.

Elaboration on this Issue

It has been observed that the cases in which people have died in cars’ accidents are more than those who died because of some other reason. In United States 29% of all injury deaths are caused by car accident, and it has also been seen to be 47% of all unintended deaths. More than 80% of road accidents include drivers and many different occupations, and rest of 20% includes motorcyclist, cycle riders and pedestrians.

How Fast Is It Becoming More Problematic?

In Minnesota, many deaths which are related to injuries caused by car’s accident and it has become more problematic as almost people of all age groups have got affected by this specific cause of injury. Behind 50% of traumatic brain injuries and 60% of injuries of spinal cord there is only one reason, which is car accident injury. It depicts the hazardous outcomes of increasing ratio of accidents. Young drivers between the ages of 15 to 24 have many chances to come across such mishaps, and not only young drivers aged drivers and those who do not prefer to fasten belts while sitting in a car are also considered to come across such accidents. The treatment charges are much high for pedestrians who get injured by car’s accident, and aged people are much vulnerable to lose their lives because of road side accidents.

How the Ratio of Car’s Accidents Got Reduced?

The ratio of the deaths specifically caused by car’s accidents has been decreasing, and it is because of many reasons and one of them is that people have understood the importance of seat belts. And some other reasons include less ratio of Alcoholic drinking, good and maintained roads, cars which have much options of avoiding accident, on the spot emergency medical services. And there are many things which need to be improved in all these specific areas to decrease the ratio of car accidents.

What Are Those Preventions Which Need To Be Followed By Common People?

In order to prevent car accident injuries, there are some steps which should be taken and awareness of all those preventions must be passed on to common people.  Below are few preventing steps you must keep in mind:

• Public safety seminars and other programs must be conducted to deliver the importance of using seat belts to common people. And it should be the main concern of the government to increase the awareness among common people to fasten seat belts before they go to drive their cars. It is one of the most important prevention to avoid car accident, which needs to be focused by both government and common people.
• Youngsters below 18 must not be allowed to drive a car and there should be continuous promotion of graduated licensing system. With that there is another prevention which is to retest aged drivers and it should be done frequently, as they are at high risk of coming across car accident than others.
• Government and people need to unite to take steps for restricting drivers not to use any alcoholic drink soon before they drive, as they would not only harm their lives only but also the lives of people who walk on the track alongside road.

You coping with cancer, experience pain as an indication of having cancer or as a side effect caused by cancer’s treatment. You should not be worried to get rid of a cancer pain, as it is effectively treated by the help of a doctor. Fatigue and some other symptoms which has the high chances to damage your quality life is called (supportive care or palliative), and it is an integral part of your cancer treatment’s plan. In order to have the most useful and health friendly strategy to get rid of pain is suggested to you by your doctor. Your health care team may suggest you to have an extra pain management strategy, if your pain is intolerable.

How Do You Get Pain Relief?

You will find various sorts of cancer pain management with few pains that are really not tolerable. It does not last so long after you undergo effective and a perfect pain management treatment. Pain emerges in your body on and off after the treatment or it may become chronic pain which has one demerit that it takes a long time to disappear from your body. There is another sort of pain which is called breakthrough pain and it lasts and increases even if you have undergone the treatment. Your doctor must have the proper information about your pain’s condition.  Remember if you get lazy to undergo proper treatment of cancer pain then it would worsen, which may give you mental illness and would make you isolated from the society. You can take some steps to reduce your pain yourself to some extent, which includes keeping healthy diet, having stress free activities and spending quality time with family.

Do Not Hide Any Condition You Experience

It is not necessary that all the patients of cancer pain have same conditions of pain. If you want to get rid of pain then you need to have effective meeting with your health care team to identify the main cause of your pain, which would help your doctor and the team to come up with an effective treatment for you.

The Importance of Pain Journal to Inform Your Doctor Well about Pain

If you want to describe your case well in front of your doctor about your pain you would need a pain journal, which would include all the details which your doctor may ask you. You need to include each and every aspect of your health in that pain journal. Below are the points you would want to include in pain journal

• The date you suffered from pain and what was the time of going through cancer with the information of how long it stayed in your body.
• You need to add that what activity you were involved in when pain attacked you.
• Explain which part of your body pain attacked and did it confine to one part of the body or expanded all over your body
• Number the condition of your pain between zero to 10, and 10 would be considered the highest and the last extreme level of pain. It would help your doctor to understand the condition of your pain.