[retMD]

We know that it is far more commonly caused in young women by auto accidents and intimate partner violence than by all other causes combined.

You can't use general statistics to diagnose individual cases. That you are trying to do that indicates you do not understand how medicine works for individual patients.

[T'wit]

>> You can't use general statistics to diagnose individual cases.

Who said you should? But you can and should use them to focus your search and not waste time on million-to-one shots. The government uses statistics all the time to tell ERs and physicians to look for abuse.