{"id":196688720,"date":"2011-03-27T11:45:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T11:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=196688720"},"modified":"2011-03-27T11:45:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T11:45:20","slug":"chronic-pain-often-follows-car-crash-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=196688720","title":{"rendered":"Chronic Pain Often Follows Car Crash: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: Another motivation to improve traffic law enforcement.]<br \/>\n**************************************************************************<br \/>\nMONDAY, March 21 (HealthDay News) &#8212; People appear to be more likely to develop chronic pain after suffering injuries in a traffic crash than after other physically traumatic events, a new study suggests.<br \/>\nIn the study, Gareth Jones, of the University of Aberdeen School of Medicine and Dentistry in Scotland, and colleagues looked at 2,069 people who provided information about musculoskeletal pain and associated distress at three times over four years. The participants were also asked if they had recently experienced any of six physically traumatic events: traffic crash, workplace injury, surgery, fracture, hospitalization or childbirth.<br \/>\nOf the 241 study participants who reported new onset of chronic widespread pain, about one-third were more likely than other participants to report at least one physically traumatic event during the study period.<br \/>\nAfter the researchers adjusted for a number of factors, they found that people who reported being in a traffic crash had an 84% increased risk of developing new onset chronic widespread pain.<br \/>\n,,,<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/script\/main\/art.asp?articlekey=141047\">https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/script\/main\/art.asp?articlekey=141047<\/a>oldId.20110327114520393<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: Another motivation to improve traffic law enforcement.] ************************************************************************** MONDAY, March 21 (HealthDay News) &#8212; People appear to be more likely to develop chronic pain after suffering injuries in a traffic crash than after other physically traumatic events, a new study suggests. In the study, Gareth Jones, of the University of Aberdeen School of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=196688720\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chronic Pain Often Follows Car Crash: Study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196688720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196688720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196688720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196688720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196688720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196688720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196688720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}