This program is eligible for 3 hours of CLE credit in 60-minute states. In 50-minute states, this program is eligible for 3.6 hours of CLE credit. Credit hours are estimated and are subject to each state’s approval and credit rounding rules.
Overview
Do you know the differences between a discectomy and fusion?
When would you use microsurgery over minimally invasive surgery?
What is the recommended length of physical therapy for a back injury?
Injuries involving the spine are among the most common compensation claims in the United States.
Statistically, problems with the low back are the second leading cause of missed time from work and one of the leading reasons people see orthopedic surgeons and neurosurgeons.
Is it workers’ comp?
Over 80% of the population will experience back pain at some point during their lifetime. Many of those cases will not be trauma-induced, raising complex proximate cause issues. When back pain results in surgery, the value of a claim is dramatically increased in value.
Not all back surgeries are created equal.
Each has unique benefits and challenges. Laminectomies, fusions, laser percutaneous discectomies, and corpectomies: it is not uncommon for attorneys and claims professionals alike to not appreciate the differences among procedures, but those differences are important and may potentially influence the value of the case.
Step into the operating room.
Join award-winning law professor Samuel D. Hodge, Jr. and lawyer/neurosurgeon, James G. Lowe, for a fast-paced, multimedia presentation that takes you into the operating room and demonstrates how the different procedures are performed and defines the benefits and risks of each.
A must-attend if you handle claims involving the spine. You will learn:
1. The anatomy of the spine
2. What parts are most susceptible to trauma
3. Problems that are degenerative in nature
4. Neuroradiology tests used to image the spine
Perfect for attorneys practicing in these areas:
- Workers’ compensation
- Personal injury
- Social security
- General practice
- And anyone who would like to learn more about injuries to the back!
Recorded in August 2024.
Faculty
Samuel Hodge Jr., Esq.
Professor Hodge is a Professor Emeritus at Temple University where he teaches law, anatomy, and forensic courses. He is also a member of the Dispute Resolution Institute in Philadelphia where he serves as a mediator and neutral arbitrator. Professor Hodge has been named one of the most popular continuing legal education instructors in the country and lectures frequently to attorneys, judges, physicians. and governmental agencies on medical/legal issues and artificial intelligence. He has received multiple teaching awards including being named a Temple University Great Teacher and his Anatomy for Lawyers course was the recipient of the ACLEA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Continuing Legal Education. Professor Hodge is one of the most published authors in the United States on medical/legal matters. His book, Anatomy, and Physiology for Legal Professionals was published by PBI in 2020, and he is also the co-author of the books: Traumatic Head and Brain Injuries, ABA; The Forensic Autopsy, ABA; The Spine, ABA; Clinical Anatomy for Attorneys, ABA; and author of the award-winning book, Anatomy for Litigators, ALI-ABA. He also wrote Law in American Society, McGraw Hill; Law for the Business Enterprise, McGraw Hill; and Thermography and Personal Injury Litigation, Wiley Law. In addition to his authoring multiple books, he has published more than 175 articles in medical and legal journals, in excess of 500 non-referred publications, and is a member of the Editorial Board for The Practical Lawyer. Professor Hodge is a graduate of Temple University Beasley School of Law and the Graduate Division of the Law School. He has received mediation training at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. In addition to writing multiple law review articles on the various applications of artificial intelligence from its use in medicine to the legal profession, he testified before the Pennsylvania Legislature’s Democratic Caucus studying the use of artificial intelligence in a business setting. He is also on the committee making recommendations to the Pennsylvania legislature on proposed legislation on police body worn cameras.
James Lowe, MD, JD
James G. Lowe, MD JD is a graduate of Harvard University (biology, cum laude, 1985), Temple University Medical School (MD, 1989), and the Mitchell Hamline School of Law (JD, summa cum laude, 2020). Dr. Lowe completed a Neurosurgical Residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, and an Orthopedic Spinal Surgery Fellowship, also at Jefferson, in 1995. He achieved permanent board certification by the American Board of Neurological Surgery in 1998. Dr. Lowe has served as Chief of Neurosurgery, Chief of the Spinal Trauma program, Chief of Spinal Surgery, and Medical Director of the Spine Institute at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City and Galloway Township, NJ. He continues to lecture frequently on medical-legal topics related to neurosurgey and spine surgery. After completing law school in 2020, Dr. Lowe became a member of the Pennsylvania Bar in April 2021. Due to a visual disability, Dr. Lowe left the practice of medicine in December of 2021. In 2023, he opened his law practice, James Lowe, MD Law, LLC, where he works as co-counsel with plaintiffs’ attorneys across the country on complex medical negligence cases.
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