What is Whiplash and How Can a Chiropractor Help?

What is Whiplash and How Can a Chiropractor Help?

Whiplash is an injury that occurs to the soft tissues of the neck. The symptoms are brought on due to damage of the neck that typically occurs because of an unexpected or rapid flexion or extension. The symptoms of whiplash may not set in until several hours after the...
Have I Suffered Whiplash?

Have I Suffered Whiplash?

Patients that have had whiplash injuries will notice the next day that they’re stiff, they’ll have pain in the neck, headaches. Typical headaches manifest themselves behind the back of the skull and radiate up over the head. They’ll have problems...
How Does Whiplash Affect the Body?

How Does Whiplash Affect the Body?

What happens inside of somebody’s body when they suffer through a whiplash injury has been studied by several different researchers. Two studies I am going to talk about; one from Japan and one from the United States did video analysis of what happens to people....
What Stretches Help with Whiplash Pain?

What Stretches Help with Whiplash Pain?

Just stretching the muscles will help from a whiplash injury. There is three plains of motion in the cervical spine, it’s the spine of the neck. What you want to do is you want to get to the end point of those ranges of motion and just stretch your muscles. The...
Putting Whiplash Misconceptions to Rest

Putting Whiplash Misconceptions to Rest

Teenage Driver Suffering Whiplash Injury Traffic Accident Whiplash and its associated disorders (WAD) is a constellation of symptoms usually, but not always, following a motor vehicle collision. There are other types of mechanisms that cause whiplash, skiing,...