9 car accident injury treatments, 1 office, 0 referrals across town.

Car accident injury treatment at this office means the nine modalities below, delivered under one plan by Dr. Carol McNamara-Krauss, DC, and documented in one record. Two rules apply in every case: shockwave is never applied to the spine, and shockwave and Class IV laser are never applied to the same area.

How the plan is chosen

The examination decides the treatment, not the other way around. A whiplash patient with restricted motion and muscle guarding usually starts with adjustments, laser and electrical stimulation. A patient with pain radiating into a leg and a positive nerve tension test starts on the Antalgic-Trac decompression table. A shoulder that will not lift after the seat belt caught it gets laser first and shockwave later, once the acute inflammation has settled, on separate areas and separate days. Massage with Dawn Marie Teufel, LMT, comes in when spasm is the limiting factor, and nutritional counseling when healing is slower than the injury explains.

Why one office matters

Every modality is in suite 107 at 3320 N Federal Hwy, so the plan can change at any visit without a referral across town, and the record of what was done stays in one file. That file, kept in a case documentation system built with personal injury attorneys, names the treatment and the region at every encounter, which is what a Florida PIP carrier or an attorney reviewing the case expects to see. The documentation page lists what it contains.

What is not on this list

Emergency medical condition determinations, which an MD, DO, PA or APRN makes on referral. Surgery, injections and prescription medication, which are outside chiropractic scope and are referred out when the examination calls for them. Head injury treatment, which is screened here and referred. The injuries pages say which of the nine treatments each injury typically uses.