Truck driver rear ended in traffic exacerbates neck osteophyte, aggravates old lumbar herniation, and gets umbilical hernia

11 IWCC 837

Award: 10% Man as a whole

Accident:  Rear ended in traffic

Injury:  Instant neck pain, umbilical hernia repaired with surgery, exacerbation of paracentral cervical disc osteophyte at C3-4, and exacerbation of previously diagnosed small centrally herniated lumbar disc at L4-L5 and L5-S1

Restrictions: Sit down work given by employer.  Even turning head from left to right hurt for P at the hearing, noted arbitrator.  But, on a surveillance video P was shown playing softball with daughter and also driving and turning head at neck a lot; which he had just testified he couldn't do.