Gary Kurtz, DC DABCO

Utilizing clinical findings in conjunction with advanced imaging and electrodiagnostic findings in managing collaborative relationships with medical specialists. Applying a literature standard to care to ensure conservative care as the first option.

Managing spinal related cases based upon MRI findings of herniations, bulges, protrusion, extrusions (comminuted and fragmented) utilizing thin-sliced acquisition protocols. When to consider ordering T1, T2, Short Tau Inversion Radiant, proton density and Dixon sequencing for spinal related pathology

Creating literature-based documentation inclusive of history and a clinical examination that encompasses causality, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment plans. Ensuring the whole person impairment ratings are consistent with contemporary literature

Spinal biomechanical engineering models related to pathobiomechanics and literature-based standards in creating an accurate diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment plan. Determining impairment ratings based upon alteration of motion segment integrity utilizing motion-imaging, and creating demonstrable evidence for continued treatment plans

Correlating spinal bio-mechanics secondary to trauma and MRI findings inclusive of herniation, bulging, protruded and extruded discs. Correlating co-efficient of forces translated from the bullet vehicle to the target vehicle to the occupant in determining causality of bodily injury,

Chiropractic as primary spine care based upon the literature conclusions and the documentation requirements to support those conclusions in an ethical collaborative environment inclusive of hospitals, emergency rooms, primary care medical doctors and medical specialists.

The latest scientific evidence of the effects of the chiropractic spinal adjustment on the central nervous system, both upper and lower motor neurons. A comparative analysis of chiropractic vs. other modalities and therapies,

Bulge, herniated, protruded, extruded, sequestered discs, differential diagnoses and clinical triage implications. MRI physics and slice protocols

Differential diagnosis of pathobiomechanics in the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine as sequellae to micro and macro trauma and chronic biomechanic instabilities. Understanding the clinical implications of long term biomechanical failure in resultant disc pathology, ligament pathology and osseous pathology

Assessment tools, nutritional protocols & advancing patient care

Kinesiotaping theory and application for the intervention of acute pain & inflammation as it relates to the neuroplasticity of traumatized soft tissue

Evaluation and presentation of upper motor neuron and lower motor neuron lesions and systemic neurological disorders and diseases. Neurological diagnostic protocols; evaluation and interpretation

Review of integration of orthopedic practice diagnostic protocols and assessment with an emphasis on non-surgical care of musculoskeletal injuries

Physical examination, evaluation and diagnosis of neuromusculoskeletal disorders and injuries. Differential diagnostic considerations of the acute traumatic injury along with evaluation of chronic joint dysfunction

Understanding immobilization principles with practical application including rigid, semi-rigid and soft immobilization as it positively and negatively impacts joint biomechanics. Includes single joints of the upper and lower extremities as well as spinal joint biomechanics

Differential diagnosis of pathobiomechanics of the knee, ankle and foot secondary to acute trauma as well as chronic dysfunction and instability. Appreciation of the interconnectivity of the joints of the lower extremity with gait disorders and associated spinal biomechanics

Differential diagnosis of pathobiomechanics of the knee, ankle and foot secondary to acute trauma as well as chronic dysfunction and instability. Appreciation of the interconnectivity of the joints of the lower extremity with gait disorders and associated spinal biomechanics

Assessment and evaluation protocols of the glenohumeral joint, elbow, forearm, wrist and hand. Recognition of the neuromusculoskeletal disorders; traumatic and non-traumatic, with an appreciation of repetitive stress injuries. Overview of the interconnectivity of the normal biomechanics of the upper extremity and cervical spine as well as an appreciation of the normal brachial plexus and upper extremity vascularity as compared with differential diagnostic symptom presentations

Evaluation of cervical spine post-trauma presentations; acute trauma diagnostic protocols and assessment. Documenting functional injury to the cervical spinal joints and associated soft-tissue as well as understanding of the chronic cervical spine; post-traumatic pathobiomechanical dysfunction with spinal disc degeneration and ligamentous damage and chronic instability associated with cervical spine failure. Appreciation of extra-cervical pathologies affecting the cervical spine

Evaluation and impairment rating, based on the AMA Guides, of post-trauma patients who have reached MMI with residual function loss and impairment