Upper Cervical damage and

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Many of you know that my daughter 20 at the time was injured over 3years ago and I need some help with a few questions I have. I will supply you with a short summary of history. She was hit in the back of the head, while kneeling with head looking one foot off the ground by a frozen 28lb frozen Ice-cream tub that dropped 6 feet from a top shelf, like a guillotine onto the back of her occipital slamming her head to the floor. This container had a metal rim at the base which re-enforced the tub. It caused symptoms of TBI and whiplash. To this day she is still very messed up with not only neck pain, migraines, fogginess, forgetfulness, depression, anxiety and insomnia to name a few. She has had cranial, which has helped the migraines at the time, but they

have come back to some degree now. She has improved over the years, but not to a full degree and gotten worse in other things.

We had a motion Digital Xray done two years ago and found multiple areas throughout the entire neck that showed severe ligament spraining and possible tearing. She was brought to Stanford and had many tests done with their version of damage found as well. I brought her up to Tigard for Motion MRI over a year ago and most of the original finding did not show. In between I had her take six Prolotherapy treatments. However, considering how much was found on Digital and by Stanford I cannot believe that it all healed from these six Prolo treatments. Here are the finding from the Tigard: May 21st, 2010 Tyrone Wei DC at the Bridgeport MRI Clinic interpreted the craniocervical junction MRI as showing minimal fluid signal in the soft tissues superior to the Odontoid Process adjacent to the Tetorial Membrane and Apical Ligament; Minimal fluid accumulation is noted with

the Atlantodental Inter-space; Mild fluid accumulation within the right C!-C2 facet joint; no intrasubstance abnormal signal noted within Alar or transverse Ligaments; Normal signal intensity of cervical spinal cord; Cerebellar tonsils lie within Foramen Magnum; No Chiari Malformation; patient central canal; slight mucosal thickening at the maxillary sinuses; and slight left nasal septum deviation.

Question one: I have had no real answer to what this fluid is and why it is still there after three years. There is a tear at the C1-C2 facet, which is absolute pain most of the pain.

Question two: Mucosal thickening is indicative of chronic infection? She was given a bottle of Oxygen to use to help the memory and brain healing. There was a small plasitic tube that she had to breath through that maybe was not clean from sitting. She noticed notice like water dry spots in the cler tube. After this she began to have sinus pain and lots of canal itching. I thought maybe fungus, what do you think. Thickening would take some time would it not or could this show if she got an infection when she used this O2 tank? Fugus in the maxillary sinus is not good and hard to get out. She has enough problems. Any suggestion if you think it to be infection over a year now? She just brought it to my attention as she is use to pain and keeps much to herself for not wanting to complain to me

Thank you for your help, it's been a long haul.

Walt

Eagle Point.