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Whiplash Motor Vehicle accidents can be a real pain, not only do you have to have your car repaired but until its fixed your put out and have to borrow a car, catch the bus, hire another car. On its return from the reparier the car is back as good as new. All the parts are replaced and now work as the did before. So what about your body? You were in the accident as well, Unfortunately most people ignore themselves and go about their everyday work. After all nothing is broken. And your not in uncontrollable pain, nevermind the headaches you can take panadol for them. We don't think about why the headaches have now started. Whiplash can occur in almost all accidents to a degree, if you have been in a car accident even a small one, you should get your spine checked. Call for an appointment. Whiplash injury occurs from the whipping action of the head following a motor vehicle accident of other significant trauma in a sporting knowk or bump. Patients with whiplash injury often present with varying degrees of pain and loss of mobility with spinal dysfunction a major component. The whipping action during the accident causes injury to the soft tissues of the cervical spine including muscle, nerve roots, the cervical sympathetic chain, ligaments and apophyseal joints their capsules and intervertebral discs. Whiplash presentation The cervical spine (neck) presents with varying degrees of stiffness and restriction from the neck down into the shoulders and down the spine between the shoulders. Headache is a common symptom and is related to the resultant cervical dysfunction. Pain can passes into the distribution of the various cervical nerve roots down into the hands and fingers, this is caused by the inflammation of the nerves and cervical discs. The symptoms can appear immediately or more commonly they appear after some time. The more chronic symptoms occur from the resultant decay or osteoarthritis that occurs after the accident in the cervical spine. For an explanation of how this spinal decay occurs Click Spinal Subluxation. |
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