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...

The mechanisms for developing long-lasting neck pain after whiplash injuries are still largely unrevealed. In the present study it was investigated whether a kyphotic deformity of the cervical spine, as opposed to a straight or a lordotic spine, was associated with the symptoms at baseline, and with the prognosis one year following a whiplash injury. MRI was performed in 171 subjects about 10 d...

A 17-year-old girl experienced a head-to-head collision on the soccer field and presented several hours later with central vision loss. Eye examination findings revealed macular edema consistent with whiplash maculopathy. Symptom resolution required 3 months with no intervention necessary. Whiplash maculopathy is a little-known disease pathology in which the proposed mechanism of action involve...

There are few diagnostic tools for chronic musculoskeletal pain as structural imaging methods seldom reveal pathological alterations. This is especially true for Whiplash Associated Disorder, for which physical signs of persistent injuries to the neck have yet to be established. Here, we sought to visualize inflammatory processes in the neck region by means Positron Emission Tomography using th...

Whiplash injury is a relatively common occurrence, but its mechanism and optimal treatment remain poorly understood. It is estimated that the incidence of whiplash injury is approximately 4 per 1,000 persons. The most common radiographic findings include either preexisting degenerative changes or a slight flattening of the normal lordotic curvature of the cervical spine. Computed tomography and...

OBJECTIVE To determine prognostic factors for the duration and severity of acute symptoms in subjects with grade 1 or 2 whiplash injuries. METHODS Collision victims presenting to a trauma centre with spinal pain or stiffness were assessed clinically (including a visual analogue scale (VAS)), radiologically, and psychologically (short form 36 (SF36), everyday life quality (EDLQ), pain control ...

The daily increasing number of cervical whiplash injuries presents ever-greater requirement for vertebrobasilar diagnostics. A cervical spine injury, which is quite frequent injury, may occur during a fall, or industrial, traffic, sport or war injury. Transcranial Doppler (TCD) sonography with Transcan 3-D EME device and 2 MHz probe was used for the assessment of vertebrobasilar circulation in ...