Thousands of car collisions occur every day. And every day thousands of people are injured. Unfortunately, for many of these victims, the clash is only the beginning of their trouble.
Today, there is still stigma due to car injuries. Many other wise, well-known emergency doctors, general doctors, and even many chiropractors do not fully understand the degree of injury suffered by these patients. A recent study found that a significant part of family practice and orthopedic doctors questioned the validity of whiplash injuries. [1]
Insurance companies also doubt the existence of whiplash injuries for obvious economic reasons. This often puts the victims in conflict with their own doctor and insurance company. The whole victim knows that he or she is in pain, but their requests for help weaken from deaf ears.
It's not obligatory.
There are literally hundreds of scientific and medical journal papers that accurately describe damaged tissues and the mechanism of their occurrence in collisions with motor vehicles. This is no longer a theory, but a solid science that tells us that whiplash injuries are real.
Human corpses were taken using high-speed cineradiography (motion X-rays), while in 1997 Punjabi and Grauer underwent a simulation shock, and in the Orthopedics and Rehabilitation Department at Yale University Medical School.[2] In this study, the mechanism of injury in collisions with a rear impact was recorded.
The study was repeated by Panjabi, Cholewicki, Grauer et al. in 1998, this time by living people and gave similar results. [3]
The results of these studies were confirmed by living test subjects by Kaneoka et al in 1999 at the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Tsukuba, Japan.[4]
Studies of Punjabi and Kanekoki have proven that supporters of whip therapy have been talking for several decades. Namely, the cervical spine is damaged by a rear impact. Whiplash is real.
What was the eye of these studies was what happens to the neck when exposed to whiplash loads. The neck does not bind to hyperextension, as suggested earlier. Instead, the lower bones in the neck rotate backward, and then the upper bones die forward. At a point in time, just 50 milliseconds per load, the spine adopts the “S” configuration. This spinal deformity causes shear forces around the joints, discs, muscles and ligaments, resulting in damage. Interestingly, this phenomenon occurs so quickly that, in fact, before the subject is aware of the impact and before the reflexes can protect them. In other words, by the time you become aware of the impact through sight or sound, your neck is already damaged!
After studying this study, eminent researcher Nicholas Bogduk from the University of Newcastle wrote: “As a result of this study, we no longer rely on conclusions or speculation, we have a direct demonstration of the mechanism of injury in whiplash. [5]
Many new studies have been conducted, many of which live on living people, using high-speed cineradiography, which finally shows the effect of a backward injury on the cervical spine. Whiplash is no longer a theory that can be challenged. Medical science now proves unequivocally that whip-painting is really real.
Recommendations:
[1] Evans RW, Evans RJ, Sharp MJ. Survey of doctors on the syndrome of post-vascular and whiplash injury. Headache. 1994; 34: 268-274.
[2] Panjabi MM, Grauer JN (1997): "Whiplash produces S-shaped neck curvature with hyperextension at lower levels." Spine 22 (21): 2489-94.
[3] Punjabi MM, Cholwitz J., Nibu K., Grauer J. N., Babat L. B., Dvorak J., Bar HF (1998-12-01): "[Biomechanics of whiplash injury]. Orthopade 1998 Dec 27 (12): 813-9.
[4] Koji Kaneoka, Koshiro Ono, Satoshi Inami and Koichiro Hayashi (99-04-15). "Analysis of the movement of the cervical vertebrae during loading whiplash injuries." Spine 24 (8): 763-770
[5] Spine 1996; 21: 1737-1745
