Posts tagged Personal Injury

• Baroody Withdraws

  Robert Blanchard | May 24, 2007 3:52 PM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Safety advocates scored a minor victory in the recent announcement that Michael Baroody withdrew his nomination to head the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Protests from consumer groups about his ties to industry obviously helped. Can't this administration appoint anyone that is not an industry insider or political hack?

• Beware Infant Car Seat Carriers

  Robert Blanchard | May 11, 2007 10:29 AM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  You want to do the right thing. Even before your child was born, you ran out and purchased what appeared to be a quality infant car seat. You read the instructions and installed it properly. You never took your new child for a ride without buckling her in. Then the unimagible happens, when using the seat as a child carrier, as designed by the manufacturer, the handle collapses and spills your...

• Nail Salon Infections - Hidden Dangers

  Robert Blanchard | May 03, 2007 10:46 AM | 1 CommentPensacola, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Inside sources at GoLeft TV report that incidences of uncontrollable infection being spread at nail salons is a growing concern. Soon they will separate the myths from the facts, but in the mean time, some consumers are taking their own instruments to the nail salons so that they are not exposed to shared items. Infection in the fingers and toes are reportedly harder to treat in some cases...

• Food Contamination - Growing Concern

  Robert Blanchard | May 02, 2007 11:12 AM | 0 CommentsPensacola, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  With all the food imports now coming from China we can only expect more instances of food contamination in our food supply. Malamine is an industrial by-product that Chinese suppliers added to exported wheat gluten to make it appear more valuable. In fact it just made the product dangerous and led to the death of many dogs and cats that lived on pet food made with this gluten. Look at any of...

• Knee Injuries Are Common in PI Practice

  Robert Blanchard | December 20, 2006 12:00 PM | 1 CommentPensacola, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury (ACLI) usually happen from low-velocity, noncontact, deceleration injuries or from contact injuries with a rotational component. Some sports may also produce injury to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) secondary to twisting, valgus stress, or hyperextension all directly related to contact or collision. We have all seen the signigicance of the ACL in athletes...