WOLMED Pain Management Welcomes Dr. Andrew Garrett, DC

WOLMED Pain Management is happy to announce the addition of its newest Denton, TX doctor, Dr. Andrew Garrett, DC.  Dr. Garrett is a Chiropractor who earned his bachelor's degree in Public Health from the University of Texas at El Paso before completing Chiropractic college at Parker College of Chiropractic, in Dallas, TX. 

Dr. Andrew Garrett, DC

 Since graduating Chiropractic college, Dr. Garrett has dedicated his practice to helping injured workers.  His Texas Workers Compensation experience includes thorough physical exams, chiropractic manipulations, nerve conduction velocity studies, functional capacity evaluations, impairment ratings, work hardening, work conditioning, and chronic pain management.  Dr. Garrett has also testified in disputed cases to help patients get the treatment they need when insurance carriers initially deny their claims. 

As an expert in Texas Workers Compensation, Dr. Garrett does peer reviews with insurance carrier doctors and obtians preauthorization of needed workers comp treatments from insurance carriers.  He is also involved in public education on various healthcare issues and is skilled at diagnosing and treating patients with all types of work-related injuries.

Dr. Garrett served as President of a multidisciplinary workers' compensation / personal injury clinic for the last two and a half years, but has recently moved back to Denton, TX where he now works full time for WOLMED Medical.  He works Tuesday thru Saturday helping people with work injuries and injuries resutling from auto accidents.  He welcomes same-day appointments and walk-in appointments.  If you have been hurt in a car wreck or have suffered a workers compensation injury, call today to make an appointment with Dr. Garrett.  He is ready to be your doctor.

For more information about the services offered at WOLMED Medical, visit us online at http://www.wolmed.com/.  To make an appointment today, call (940) 484-7000.

Car Wrecks in the Rain

Here in the Dallas / Ft. Worth area, we are experiencing very heavy rain fall that is causing an extremely high number of car accidents.  I've been driving back and forth from Denton to Dallas for the last couple of weeks and I've seen a lot of car wrecks.  Most of those were on rainy days.  It seems like some people forget how to drive when it's raining.  They are tense from nervousness.  The heavy rains make for low visibility.  Other cars are weaving in and out of traffic.  Some people don't feel the need to slow down.  Other people don't feel the need to speed up.  And - Oprah would be very upset at the number of people who won't put down their phone, no matter how bad the weather gets.  Texting while driving and talking on the phone are bad enough on sunny days, but on rainy days, even during horrible downpours - really???

Statistically, most auto accidents in Texas happen on clear and sunny days.  That's not a surprise since most Texas days are clear and sunny.  On those rainy days though, car accidents seem to spike.  My advice to all drivers, especially on rainy days:  slow down and pay attention to the road.

Looking down at the radio?  Crash!

Talking on the phone?  Crash!

Just have to send that text message?  Crash!

Speed limits aren't for you?  Crash!

Need to save 2 minutes by weaving in an out of traffic?  Crash!

Surfing the web on your iPhone?  Crash!

Crash, crash, crash, crash, crash, crash!!!  Now what?  Your hurt - badly injured.  Your car's a wreck now.  Since your hurt, you have to miss work.  You call a personal injury lawyer to deal with the auto insurance and you need a doctor (not necessarily in that order of course).  Don't you hope that doctor will work with your attorney?  You sure better.  Otherwise, that car wreck is going to be an even bigger hassle than you ever imagined.

In many cases, the story only gets worse from here.  So, if you were crashed in a car wreck by an impatient or distracted driver, you need to give WOL+MED Medical a call in Denton and Dallas, TX.  You may be in pain, but there's no reason the process of getting better should be an even bigger pain.  WOLMED doctors work closely with auto injury lawyers and we're excellent at treating your injuries and documenting your case in a way that helps your attorney get the best possible outcome on your legal case while you're getting the best possible outcome in your medical care.

Choose WOLMED for your auto injury recovery.  We take the pain out of the process and we want to be your doctor.

With that said - to all of you impatient and distracted drivers out there:  slow down, put down your phone, and keep your eyes on the road.

WOLMED for Auto Injuries

Usually, when a person is hurt in a car wreck, their first thought (after contacting their auto insurance company) is to contact a personal injury lawyer.  Even though they have an auto INJURY, they think lawyer first and doctor sometime later.  Don't get me wrong - personal injury attorneys are great and valuable after you're in a car wreck.  We work with lots of PI attorneys at WOLMED.  However, the backbone of personal injury is the need for recovery.  What would happen if all those people who were hurt in a car wreck just took the legal route and got reimbursed for their pain, suffering and inconvenience, but never saw a doctor and got therapy to get better?  We would have millions of potentially disabled people.

We also believe that dollar amounts in settlements are higher when injured patients come to us for personal injury treatment.  WOLMED doctors are experts in documenting personal injury cases so that you can get better and get a fair settlement.  Attorneys prefer our medical records over other doctors because they are so detailed that insurance adjusters are able to give better settlements.  Our doctors document the mechanism of injury in the initial history and physical and throughout treatment, they document the duration and seriousness of all of your symptoms.  We're able to accurately document both the physical and symptom diagnoses on claim forms and in documentation to help adjusters give fair settlements.

Examples of physical diagnoses are:  lumbar strain, contusion, herniated disk, knee strain, rotator cuff tear, etc.  Symptom diagnoses are things like:  sleep disturbance, headaches, dizziness, muscle spasm, and more.  Being able to fully document all of these areas is critically important to the outcome to a personal injury case.

WOLMED patients achieve excellent outcomes in all aspects of their auto injury.  If you or anyone you know was hurt in an auto accident, give WOLMED a call.  You may also need a personal injury attorney.  If you don't know who to call for legal advice, we can recommend an attorney to you.  At WOLMED, we can help you with every aspect of your auto injury.  We want to be your doctor.

Follow up to How do You Find a Doctor on the Internet

A while back I talked about all the different ways that a person might search for a doctor on the internet. Then, I decided to just ask our patients how they would do it. Here are some of the suggestions I received.

Accident Injury Doctors
Workers Comp Physicians Denton
Doctors in Denton
Back Pain Relief
Personal Injury Doctors
Back & Neck Pain
WOLMED
Back Pain
Personal Injuries
Pain Management Doctors
Doctors in Denton for Car Wrecks
Back Specialist

Smart companies care about what their customers think. I certainly care what my patients think. So, to everyone who responded to my questionnaire - thank you. I'll start using your ideas when I'm working on internet marketing.

Chris Helms
Director of Operations
WOL+MED

Postal Workers Doctor

WOLMED treats patients who were injured working for the post office. Since 2008, the medical doctors at WOLMED have treated 134 people who work for the United States Postal Service. Federal workers comp has different rules than state workers comp. A doctor who treats patients under the Department of Labor must be more highly specialized in those federal rules than doctors who treat only state workers comp.

Federal workers comp has special forms that must be filled out and submitted to the DOL and to the employer. If these forms are not filled out correctly and on-time, it could cause serious problems for the injured worker, including loss of pay, loss of injury benefits, and loss of job.

If you're hurt at work for the post office, you need to choose your doctor very carefully. There are a lot of really good doctors out there, but if your doctor doesn't specialize in federal workers comp and doesn't understand the rules that injured postal employees and other injured federal workers must follow, you could have a lot of problems - other than the injury itself.

WOLMED does specialize in federal workers compensation. We understand the rules set forth by the Department of Labor and we pride ourselves in having excellent patient outcomes and excellent patient satisfaction scores. Our patients get better. They are happy. And - they don't experience the hassles that are possible when the doctor isn't a federal workers comp expert.

If you or someone you know was injured working for the post office or any other federal agency, choose WOLMED for the treatment of your federal workers comp injury.

We want to be your doctor!