Brent Baldasare, DC, FMS, CPE is a qualified expert witness for soft tissue injuries.

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How Do We Detect and Document Your Auto Injury?

Detecting and documenting injuries from car accidents or trauma requires a high skill set.

There are three major areas of concern to check when someone has been involved in an auto accident:

1. Soft Tissue Injury: ligaments, tendons, discs and muscle.

2. Neurological Damage: the spinal cord, nerve root compression and peripheral nerves.

3. Brain Trauma: closed head wounds, concussions and subdural hematoma.

It’s important to get checked by a doctor who has been trained on how to detect and manage these types of injuries.  Once a definitive diagnosis is made it’s much easer to put together a treatment program that is evidence based to help correct the injury.  In addition to getting a proper diagnosis from an auto injury it’s important to work with a doctor who has a network of specialist to refer to for additional testing and second opinions.

If by chance you hire an attorney to represent you they will be looking for the reports from the ER and your doctors to be able to quickly see if there is objective evidence of an injury.  We often see patients go to their primary doctor or a chiropractor not trained in assessing auto injuries, and have an incomplete or missed diagnosis. This could be a very costly and painful mistake.

In Florida you also only have 14 days to use your auto insurance for treatment of your injuries. After 14 days without a medical check up, insurance will deny your care. This is why it’s critical to get checked immediately after an auto accident in Orlando. Our team is highly trained to deal with these types of injuries and our Orlando network of specialists includes neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons, physical therapist, chiropractors and nurse practitioners.

It’s important to get tested for functional problems that may linger for years after your injury. Neglecting these tests can cause a patient long term pain and financial stress.

We have referral clinics all throughout the country so feel free to contact us if you would like to be treated in Orlando, FL or we can help you find someone close to you.

Advanced training To Look For From YOUR AUTO INJURY treating Physicians:

• MRI Interpretation for Spinal Trauma: Differential Diagnosis and Time Dating injuries
• Neurodiagnostics, Imaging Protocols and Pathology of the Trauma Patient
• Diagnostics, Risk Factors, Clinical Presentation and Triaging the Trauma Patient
• Crash Dynamics and Its Relationship to Causality
• MRI, Bone Scan and X-Ray Protocols, Physiology and Indications for the Trauma Patient
• Neurodiagnostic Testing Protocols, Physiology and Indications for the Trauma. 
• Documentation and Reporting for the Trauma Victim
• Documenting Clinically Correlated Bodily Injury to Causality