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Few topics provoke so much controversy or heated opinion, based on so little fact as whiplash injuries. In emergency departments, orthopaedic, neurological and rheumatological clinics, and not least in the Courts, this common syndrome is shrouded in mystery and creates clinical insecurity in those who attempt to explain its mechanism, its prognosis and treatment. These problems are compounded i...

There has been intense controversy about postconcussion syndrome since Erichsen's publication in 1866 on railway brain and railway spine. The fascinating history of this debate will be reviewed and then the non-organic explanations for postconcussion syndrome, headaches after head injury, and chronic whiplash injuries and headaches will be explored including the following: psychogenic, psychoso...

139 persons who contacted The Regional Hospital, Trondheim, between 1 January and 1 September for whiplash injury caused by a car crash from behind were asked whether they still had problems six months or more after the accident. 51% reported having symptoms and 12% reported serious problems. Five persons were still out of work because of the neck injury. 63% of the questioned persons were fema...

OBJECTIVE Automobile head restraints, when used properly, have been shown to decrease the incidence and severity of whiplash injuries to the neck. Before the development of a public campaign on proper head restraint positioning, the authors assessed head restraint positioning and public understanding. DESIGN Over a one month period, the position of the vehicle head restraint of drivers was ob...

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This study present a new method for classification of subjects suffering from Whiplash Associated Disorders (WAD) with a supervised resilient Back Propagation Neural Network (BPN). The only input needed, from each subject, is features extracted from 3dimensional motion data collected by a ProReflex system. The analysis with BPN results in a correct prediction for 84% of normal subjects and 89% ...

[Purpose] This study was designed to examine the epidemiological background of Whiplash-associated disorders in Japanese adults and to investigate the psychological factors associated with prolonged treatment for Whiplash-associated disorders. [Subjects and Methods] An online survey was completed by 127,956 participants, of whom 4,164 had been involved in a traffic collision. A random sample of...

Rear impact collisions are mostly low severity, but carry a very high societal cost due to reported symptoms of whiplash and related soft tissue injuries. Given the difficulty in physiological measurement of damage in whiplash patients, there is a significant need to assess rear impact severity on the basis of vehicle damage. This paper presents fundamental impact equations on the basis of an e...