63. Experimental Studies on Pathology of Whiplash Injury

Letter on whiplash injury.

I read Adrian White’s summaries and commentaries on the Pilot study in whiplash1 2 with great interest. In the United Kingdom, a high percentage of car insurance claims were related to whiplash injury, most commonly as a result from road traffi c accidents. It can have a major impact on the patients’ income as some can be off work for more than 6 months after injury.3 These patients usually pre...

Whiplash injury.

Whiplash injury.

This review discusses the causes, outcome and prevention of whiplash injury, which costs the economy of the United Kingdom approximately pound 3.64 billion per annum. Most cases occur as the result of rear-end vehicle collisions at speeds of less than 14 mph. Patients present with neck pain and stiffness, occipital headache, thoracolumbar back pain and upper-limb pain and paraesthesia. Over 66%...

Biomechanics of whiplash injury.

Despite a large number of rear-end collisions on the road and a high frequency of whiplash injuries reported, the mechanism of whiplash injuries is not completely understood. One of the reasons is that the injury is not necessarily accompanied by obvious tissue damage detectable by X-ray or MRI. An extensive series of biomechanics studies, including injury epidemiology, neck kinematics, facet c...

Effect of whiplash injury on accommodation.

BACKGROUND Accommodative disturbance has been cited as one of the causes of visual disturbance following whiplash injury but to date, with one exception, none of the studies have incorporated a group of control subjects; none of the results have been statistically analysed. The aim of the present study was to examine the amplitude of accommodation in a group of whiplash subjects, the majority o...