The news over the past several days has been dominated by cases of police brutality all over the country. Men in Louisiana and Minnesota have died at the hands of police, and these are just two of the many times this has occurred over the last few years. On Tuesday, a video was released that showed two policemen from Baton Rouge, Louisiana murdering an African-American man named Alton Sterling while they were  holding him down on the ground.[...]

I've been a personal injury lawyer for 26 years and I've handled every conceivable type of case and in the process have learned quite a bit about anatomy and how a trauma can affect the body. A few years ago, after struggling with a bad back for several years and trying every conservative mode of treatment----physical therapy, epidural injections, yoga, Pilates----I relented and ultimately had spinal surgery. I don't mind admitting that I was more than hesitant to[...]