As a short follow-up to the article on the relation between neck injury and high blood pressure, this article summarizes some treatment tips to lower blood pressure. A blood pressure level of 140/90 mmHg or higher is considered high. About two-thirds
of people over age 65 have high blood pressure. There are of course efficient medications as well but these tips focus on what you can do right now and they will also have positive effects on your general condition. The boring thing is that there is no simple solution and most tips revolve around a lifestyle change in diet and exercise.

Science Daily reports:
Researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, studied short- and long-term temporomandibular joint (TMJ) pain and dysfunction in 60 patients in hospital emergency rooms directly after they were involved in a rear-end car collision and evaluated them again one year later.
TMJ is an umbrella term covering inflammation of the temporomandibular joint, which connects the lower […]

Research from Toronto Western Research Institute, Canada, used stem cells taken from mice brains and injected a finely tuned cocktail of growth hormones, anti-inflammatory drugs and the cells into rats with crushed spines.

A Yale School of Medicine study shows that ff you experienced a rear impact collision while your head was turned, chances are your injury may have become more severe and with a higher risk of chronic injury.

New research at The University of Queensland will examine the psychological as well as physical aspects of whiplash in a bid to help chronic sufferers.

Lengthy waits for personal injury compensation after car crashes could be a thing of the past, thanks to research being carried out at The University of Nottingham. Ultrasound scans have revealed bleeding and swelling of the neck muscles in some patients

In the past three years the Swedish Commission on Whiplash-related Injuries has studied various aspects of whiplash injury. The commission was created by some of the larger insurance companies in Sweden. Here is a short summary of their findings published in 2005.

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported during 1995 on 5.5 million of American people involved in a traffic accidents. Subsequent studies showed that 52% suffered from whiplash injury. The same figure for Germany shows that in 1992 close to 50% of persons invloved in a car accident suffered from whiplash injury.