The 5-Things You Need To Do Immediately After Being Involved In A Car Accident 1. Immediately attend to your injuries. A quick visit to the Emergency Room is a smart idea, especially if you are certain if you’ve been involved in a car accident and you are hurt....
Understanding Whiplash Every 16 seconds, someone in the United States suffers a whiplash injury. Whiplash is a term that describes a specific type of injury to the neck resulting from an intense, rapid force, typically from an automobile collision. Damage to the...
In this article, we will teach you how whiplash injuries hurt you! The term “whiplash” was first used in 1928 to define an injury mechanism of sudden hyperextension followed by an immediate hyperflexion of the neck, which results in damage to the muscles,...
As we discussed briefly in an earlier post, Understanding Whiplash, whiplash injuries can manifest in a wide variety of ways, including neck pain, headaches, fatigue, upper back and shoulder pain, cognitive changes and low back pain. Due to the fact that...
There are many factors affecting whiplash injuries and the extent that they contribute to the severity of a whiplash injury. such as the direction of impact, the speed of impact, the size of the vehicles involved. your headrest position. and your posture at impact,...
Grading Whiplash Injuries The severity and long-term recovery of whiplash injuries vary considerably between individuals. No two cases are exactly alike. As you read in our previous post, Common Injuries from Whiplash, the severity of your injury depends on many...
