Whiplash is a common neck injury often resulting from car accidents, slips, or falls. It affects the muscles, tendons, and ligaments of the neck and typically does not require surgery. While many recover with therapy, some individuals may experience long-term pain without a clear medical explanation.
Whiplash is an injury to the neck caused by sudden movement, often from car accidents. It affects the soft tissues like muscles and ligaments.
Treatment for whiplash usually involves therapeutic care such as chiropractic or physical therapy. Surgery is rarely needed.
Yes, some individuals may experience chronic pain from whiplash that does not resolve over time, even with treatment.
The most common injury we see at McCutcheon and Hamner is whiplash injuries. Whiplash is an injury to the neck. Now if you go to the doctor they're gonna call it a cervical injury but whiplash neck injuries we see these all the time and they arise out of a multitude of events. The most common being car wrecks but you can have whiplash from a slip and fall an on-the-job injury. Any way the body can be traumatized you can suffer whiplash. Now whiplash is an injury to the muscles tendons and ligaments of the neck. It usually doesn't require surgery but there is this belief among the insurance companies however wrong it is that whiplash should just resolve within a couple of days and you're fine. That is not necessarily the case. Now most of the time treatment for whiplash doesn't result in surgery because it's not damage to the vertebra of the neck or the bones of the neck and it's not damage to the disc of the neck. So usually what we see is some type of therapeutic care, be it chiropractic care or physical therapy and a lot of times people do recover from it but there is a group of people that never completely resolve or recover from whiplash and as advanced as medical science is they don't know why. They don't know if it's structural damage to the muscles, the tendons, the ligaments but there are a group of people that due to trauma experience a lifetime of pain due to whiplash and if you or a loved one has suffered whiplash due to a car wreck, a slip and fall, an on-the-job injury give Tom and I a call at McCutcheon and Hamner. We can help.
