WHIPLASH RESEARCH

BRAINSTEM INJURY

Whiplash research has changed things. In the past whiplash has been indeed a domain of controversy, but the scientifically proven facts now concludes that the controversy is largely manufactured. It is propagated by those who may benefit unduly from whiplash, or insurance companies who are hellbent on showing the whiplash mostly is of minor significance, and those who are simply uninformed.

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IS NECK PAIN AND HEADACHE AFTER WHIPLASH FEIGNED ?

Spine Journal 1999: ARTICLES SUGGESTING WHIPLASH INJURIES ARE FEIGNED WERE FOUND TO HAVE NO SCIENTIFIC BASIS.

The validity of whiplash syndrome has been a source of debate in the medical literature for many years. Some authors have published articles suggesting that whiplash injuries are impossible at certain collision speeds ; others have stated that the problem is psychological, or is feigned as a means to obtain secondary financial gain.

These articles contradict the majority of the literature, which shows that whiplash injuries and their sequelae are a highly prevalent problem that affects a significant proportion of the population.

The authors of the current literature critique reviewed the biomedical and engineering literature relating to whiplash syndrome, searching for articles that refuted the validity of whiplash injuries. Twenty articles containing nine distinct statements refuting the validity of whiplash syndrome were found that fit the inclusion criteria. The methodology described in these articles was evaluated critically to determine if the authors' observations regarding the validity of whiplash syndrome were scientifically sound.

The authors of the current critique found that all of the articles contained significant methodologic flaws with regard to their respective authors' statements refuting the validity of the whiplash syndrome.

As a result of the current literature review, it was determined that there is no epidemiologic or scientific basis in the literature for the following statements. THEY ARE FALSE:

1. whiplash injuries do not lead to chronic pain,

2. rear impact collisions that do not result in vehicle damage are unlikely to cause injury, and

3. whiplash trauma is biomechanically comparable with common movements of daily living.





This poor bronze has a need of research whiplash. See how the normal curve, called the 'lordosis' has been reversed? You can see it in a small Dutch village called Koudum.






HOW COMMON IS FACET JOINT PAIN AFTER WHIPLASH ?

FROM: SPINE JOURNAL 1996 Whiplash research

Objective: To determine the prevalence of cervical facet joint pain among patients with chronic neck pain and headache (more than 3 months' duration) after whiplash injury.

Methods: Two different local anaesthetics and a placebo injection of normal saline were administered in random order and under double-blindfolded conditions.

Results: Among patients with dominant headache revealed that 50% of the patients had C2-C3 facet joint pain. Overall, the prevalence of cervical facet joint pain was 60%.

Conclusion: Cervical facet joint pain is common among patients with chronic neck pain after whiplash. The Symptoms of whiplash abound as anyone in practice will confirm. This research has survived challenge with placebo-controlled investigations and has proven to be of major clinical importance.

The Cervical Facet syndrome is one of the most common conditions seen in the Chiropractic environment, despite Whiplash Research. Click here for more about the Cervical Facet Syndrome ... WHIPLASH RESEARCH

The so-called uncinnate processes make up the Joints of Luschka. In any whiplash, but particularly a whiplash from the side, these uncinnates are very prone to injury. Because of their location immediately adjacent to the foramen where the nerve emerges, their predilection to become arthritic after a whiplash, means that untreated whiplash patients are often years later subject to severe pain in the arm. Read more about CHIROPRACTIC HELP Whiplash and the Joints of Luschka ...

IS THERE A DIFFERENCE IN THE INJURY BETWEEN SURPRISED AND AWARE PEOPLE IN WHIPLASH?

FROM: SPINE JOURNAL 2003 Whiplash research

Human subjects were exposed experimentally to a single whiplash-like perturbation, using aware and surprised subjects.

Objective: To determine how awareness of the presence and timing of a whiplash affects the onset and amplitude of the neck muscle response.

Results:

1. Cervical paraspinal amplitudes were 260% larger and angular head accelerations in flexion were 180% larger in surprised subjects than in alerted subjects.

2. Surprised subjects exhibited a 25% larger head retraction than aware subjects.

Conclusions: The larger retractions observed in surprised likely produce larger tissue strains and may increase injury potential. Females are more prone to injury.

Arthritis: Whiplash untreated leads inexorably to immobilisation arthritis. Read more about neck pain and ARTHRITIS …








WHIPLASH CHIROPRACTIC TREATMENT

Whiplash Chiropractic is an every day event in our clinics. Whether it's a fresh injury, like the girl who fell from her galloping horse this week, or the woman with radiating pain down her arm from a whiplash thirty years that was poorly managed at the time, each and every whiplash should be carefully and thoroughly assessed.

Otherwise, the process:

Whiplash > spinal subluxations > immobilisation arthritis > chronic neck pain, headache and arm pain.

It happens as surely as night follows day.

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