Today, I am going to do my best to explain why car wreck injuries can be so severe even when it appears there is minor damage.

It’s called “inertia.”

Definition of inertia – the property of matter by which it retains its state of rest or its velocity along a straight line so long as it is not acted upon by an external force.

What that means is that, if you are traveling at 30 mph and your car is struck head on, your body will keep moving at 30 mph while your car will slow down. In fact, your body will keep moving at that speed until an external force (seatbelt, dashboard, steering wheel) stops you. Well, that doesn’t sound very healthy, right?

Let’s talk about 30mph for just a minute. That really doesn’t sound like a big number when we talk about speed. Especially considering that the current land speed record sits at 760mph! But consider that a shark can only swim up to 25mph. The world record holder in the 100m dash, Usain Bolt, can only muster up 23.35mph. And, the most famous racing horse ever, Secretariat, averaged around 37mph. So, you see, 30mph is not necessarily a low speed and definitely not too low to have some injuries from a car wreck at that speed.

The most common injury from auto accidents must be whiplash.

Whiplash injury: Hyperextension (over-extension) injury to the neck, often the result of being struck from behind, as by a fast-moving vehicle in a car accident. The mechanics of whiplash injury are thought to be as follows: The victim may be first pushed or accelerated forward, pushing the body forward, but the head remains behind momentarily, rocking up and back, and some muscles and ligaments may be stretched or torn. These muscles, in a reflex action, contract to bring the head forward again, to prevent excessive injury. There may be overcompensation when the head is traveling in a forward direction as the vehicle decelerates. This may rock the head violently forward, stretching and tearing more muscles and ligaments. -medicinenet.com

New information from new studies has come about recently. It seems the mechanism of whiplash is to be lifted up from your seat slightly (possibly causing low back issues), then a swift and severe extension of your neck, then dropping back into the seat as the seatbelt catches you, followed by swift and severe flexion of your neck. Basically, you can have a sprain/strain of your low back from the lifting and dropping out of and back into your seat. You can have thoracic sprain/strain from the seatbelt position. And it is obvious that your neck is most likely going to hurt for quite some time. If the wreck is severe enough, you can also have serious tearing of the ligaments and connective tissue in the front and the back of the neck. But, even in minor accidents, you can suffer what is called micro-tearing of these ligaments. Meaning that you can have pain and eventual scar tissue that’s cause isn’t completely obvious from an MRI. This is the most important argument in favor of treatment and complete rehab of an automobile accident injury.

I would say whiplash is definitely the most common injury we see from car wreck patients. The problem is that the insurance companies have a little equation they use to assess what personal injury amount they will pay for. This equation takes into effect the speed at which the car was traveling. Although there are plenty of studies refuting this tactic, they continue to use it. They refuse to tell anyone exactly what the equation is but they still use it. For example, you may be driving a BMW and have very little damage to the car itself but the damage is $4000. Or you may be driving a 15 year old car an have plenty of damage that is only worth $1500. And it is guessed that the insurance companies use the damage amount in their equation which affects the personal injury payout. This is not a good thing. I have said it before in this blog and I’ll say it again. This is why you most likely should call an attorney for a car wreck if the damage is anything beyond a fender bender.

These non 12 step recovery programs could be considered as one of the best methods to cure most of the patients who are suffering from either drugs or alcohol addiction. For, these dozen steps in recovery programs are effective enough to deal with one of the most crucial, at the same time the most neglected, phases of recovery program: the post-treatment period.

It is a common knowledge for anyone who has direct experiences with drug addicts, be they the addicts themselves or having family suffering from addiction, that there is this one big problem those drug addicts constantly struggling even after they finish following the rehabilitation program. And that problem is the urge of coming back, that is to say, to use the drugs again. It has to be made clear therefore that the best treatments of addictive patients should not only cover the ‘in-addiction’ period, but also the post-addiction period. Indeed, it is practically easy to make some patient stop using the drugs. However, it is absolutely difficult to make them stop using the drugs again exactly after they have been declared clean.

In this light of such important notion, it is of your utmost responsibility to look for the programs that will not just cure the patient, but also prevent them from getting addicted again. Luckily, you have such programs with you in this institution. It would be a great unfortunate and loss if you miss notifying such effective programs to cure the suffering members of your family from their own addiction. For, such programs present the best opportunity you could get to help treating the addicted members of your family to have their own future back with them. And what is the better future for them rather than one that could make them stay out of the drugs forever?

Some people think that all moisturisers on the market are basically the same. The same ingredients. The same consistency. The same type of packaging. This is definitely not so.

Moisturisers differ a great deal from brand to brand, and for sound reasons. It is simply not possible to create a moisturising product that all skin conditions and types respond to equally. There is no “one size fits all” solution when it comes to skin care.

Society is not a homogeneous unit, though. What may prove to be an ideally suited moisturising product for one person will almost inevitably not be the most suited for another person.

Also, each one of us has our own unique set of circumstances.

Modes of employment will differ from person to person. One person employed in an industrial factory with dusty, dry air will have greatly different skin moisturising requirements to another person who sees most of their working day surrounded by plants in the great outdoors.

The weather plays an important part in any skin care routine as well. A moisturiser that is appropriate for the Spring or Summer is unlikely to be the most effect moisturiser to use during the colder winter months.

When looking to buy a moisturising product you should realise that they are basically divided into 3 groupings. Namely, creams, lotions and the newer innovation of the mousse based products. So, what are the main differentiating factors that divide these groupings? Further, for each grouping, what are their main benefits and drawbacks?

Creams are invariable dominated by their main ingredient, which is petroleum jelly.

The father, metaphorically speaking, of petroleum jelly, or Vaseline as it more commonly known, is the dregs of the oil industry. The origins literally spring from an unwanted waste product, rod wax, that tends to congeal around the top of the pump rods in traditionally built oil wells. This very same rod wax was the foundation of a barrier cream that was originally patented by chemist Robert Chesebrough in 1872. Indeed, at the time, Chesebrough claimed that his product was something of a wonder “cure all”, suggesting that it should be ingested regularly to ward off and protect against all kinds of bodily ailments. The trade name that Chesebrough choose for his new formulation was Vaseline. A somewhat perfunctory name since the copious amounts of rod wax that Robert Chesebrough stored were held in everyday household vases. Hence “vase – line” – “elaion” is the etymological Greek root for “oil”.

It is this petroleum jelly that is responsible for the majority of moisturising creams being heavy and greasy. Whilst providing a thick coating for your skin, creams may be unsuitable, especially on the hands, as they can leave your skin slippery. Heavy moisturising creams also have the tendency to clog the pores or your skin. These characteristics also make the use of heavy moisturising creams inadvisable on any area of skin that displays symptoms of acne. Sticky cream products can also cause other problems. For instances when used on the hands for tasks that involve wearing gloves for an extended time. In these circumstances, the glove material can rub the cream residue into clumps around your finger joints.

Thick and greasy moisturising creams are often thought to be more suited to winter use when dry skin can be a major concern.

Lotions, on the other hand, consist of little or no petroleum jelly at all. Hence, the less gummy and sticky nature of lotions make them easier to rub over your skin. Apart from water, or aqua as it is often listed as, their main constituents will commonly be an oil such as Olive oil or the oil of the Sunflower. Indeed, documentary evidence shows that the use of Olive oil associated with skin care stretches back approximately 6,000 years. It was widely used by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans for a variety of purposes.

Perhaps the chief downside of using a lotion is that, after application, a general feeling of stickiness often continues for a prolonged time. The high oil content can be slow to dry and this leaves many people with an unpleasant slimy feeling. The relatively high oil content can also be problematical for people already blessed with a naturally oily skin.

Thus, moisturising lotions are widely thought to be more appropriate for use during the warmer times of the year.

The almost inevitable evolution of the skin care sector, with the introduction of mousse based products, has recently taken place. Many people hold the opinion that mousse based products have superseded traditional creams and lotions. By their very nature, mousse products are light to the touch and take little effort to apply. A mouse formulation will also spread much easier and evenly over your skin. For this reason, a smaller quantity is needed per application. This results in your epidermis being able to breathe naturally and perspire normally. People with dry skin, or skin that is sore or chapped may also find that a mousse is less painful to apply as it does not need vigorous rubbing in.

On the negative side, most mousses come as aerosols which has traditionally received a bad press as they were linked to ozone destroying CFC chemicals – this, however, ceased to be a problem with technological advances that were implemented some ten years ago – although this ceased to be the case with widespread legislation that was enacted 10 years or more ago. Further, aerosols will most likely use Butane and this has a history of being associated with teenage substance abuse.

Mousse barrier and moisturising brands are widely used by people as a year round solution to their dry skin problems.

Whichever moisturising product you eventually settle upon, never forget to apply it regularly. Your skin is yours for life, look after it and it will serve you well..