Do I have whiplash Injury?

It is assessed that 15-40% of folks who are hurt in a motor vehicle crash will experience from continuing chronic pain.(Journal of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, 2007)
Whiplash injuries not merely intensify the occurrence of prolonged neck and shoulder pain, it also radically increases the incidence of other systemic ill health effects. In other terms, whiplash injuries cause more than neck pain and headache, it hurts the wellbeing of the whole body.(Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2001)
That to a large extent 100% of those who are suffering from prolonged pain caused by a whiplash injury will have an unusual psychological profile with customary evaluations, and the single way to resolve the abnormal psychological profile was to effectively treat the lingering spinal pain. Psychoanalysis was not able to perk up the abnormal psychological profile, nor was it able to improve the patient�s chronic ache complaint.(Pain, 1997)
In the longest study yet performed on whiplash-injured patients (a study looking at the health status 17 years after injury), 55% of the patients still suffered from pain caused by the original trauma.(Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2002)
90% of those who are in the beginning given a neck collar for their whiplash injuries will be suffering from chronic neck pain 6 months later.(Spine, 2000)
2% of whiplash-injured patients will be inflicted with grave pain and problems that require constant medical examinations and drugs 7.5 years past being hurt.(Injury, 2005)
1 in every 100 (1%) citizens on our planet suffer from chronic neck pain caused by hyper extension-hyper flexion (whiplash) injury.(Pain, 1994)
The Motor Vehicle Collision Injury Problem

Statistically, all American can expect to be in a motor vehicle collision once every ten years.

Motor vehicle crashes have been the number one cause of death of our children for decades.

Since 911 (September 11, 2001), more or less 3,000 Americans have died as a consequence of terrorism; about 360,000 Americans have died in motor vehicle crashes.

Since the start of the American Revolution in 1775, about a million Americans have died in our wars. Since Henry Ford presented the mass-produced motorcar in 1913, more than 2.5 million Americans have met their deaths on the road.

And millions of Americans who did not pass away from motor vehicle collisions were injured.
The Bottom Line�

To be familiar with whiplash injury and therapy, it is most essential to know the answers to these three questions:
What tissues are injured in a motor vehicle collision?
What tissues are the primary sources for chronic spinal pain?
What tissues are primarily affected by the chiropractic adjustment?

Surprisingly, the respond to all three questions is the same:

The tissues in and around the spine, together with but not limited to the facet joints and the tissues of the disc joints

Consequently, it is inevitable that some whiplash-injured patients will acquire chronic pain and that chiropractic is often the best management choice for these patients.
David Nahali, EE, DC
11325 Lake Underhill Rd
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Orlando, Fl 32825

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