What Are The Symptoms Of Whiplash After A Car Accident?
Dec 26th, 2009 Posted in insurance | no comment »One of the kinds of injuries that are incurred in a car accident is whiplash. It happens when a car receives its hit on its rear side. Practically speaking, the whiplash can happen from any direction that the car is crashed from. The collision results in a jolt that causes sprains in the neck that ranges from mild to severe. The speed, size, or intensity of the collision is not factors that are relevant in the context of a whiplash. Even mild jolts cause whiplashes, and sometimes there have been severe collisions when people have come out unharmed.
Symptoms of a whiplash after a car accident might appear right after the accident, or they may take time up to several hours or days, and sometimes, even years. If symptoms appear soon after the accident, then they are considered as a serious cause of concern.
A whiplash injury does not harm, or fracture the bones. It damages the soft tissues, tendons, and muscles of the neck, and spine area. After the human body undergoes an extreme abnormal movement of the head and neck, it involuntarily tightens its muscular system to give support to the head. To identify the injured part of your neck exactly, you must get a detailed chiropractic checkup. It is also important to note that a whiplash injury does not appear in an x-ray or a radiograph. It is only visible in CAT scans, ultrasounds etc.
As for the injured part of the neck, a chiropractic checkup to identify the injured part of the neck should be the instant thing to do and that too in a detailed mode. Another thing to note here is the fact that whiplash injuries do not appear in x-rays or radiographs. Only CAT scans, and ultrasounds reflect the whiplash injury.
1. Pain or stiffness in the neck 2. Headache 3. Lower back pain
Following the major symptoms, come the minor ones that are inclusive of dizziness, or lack of concentration, and focus along with nausea, and also tickling in the arms, hands, or legs besides blurred vision as well as difficulty in swallowing, irritability in moods, anxiety in attitude, exhaustion, and sometimes pain in the jaw line or facial area. The degrees of symptoms differ in men, and women according to studies. In the case of women, they have a greater tendency of symptoms like lower back pain, nausea, or lack of concentration.
Other minor symptoms are less physical in nature, like dizziness, lack of concentration or focus, nausea, tickling in the arms, hands or legs, blurred vision, difficulty in swallowing, irritability, anxiety, fatigue and pain in the jaw-line or facial area. Studies have shown that men and women show different degrees of symptoms of a whiplash. Women are more prone to complain about headache, nausea, lower back pain and concentration problems.
If the symptoms do not subside with even with proper medical care, then there are chances that these may develop into whiplash syndrome. The condition of the patient becomes complex with various psychological disorders like trauma, fear, depression, and a sense of being wronged. These factors hamper the recovery process.
The derivation of expert opinion from a physician would be safer in terms of keeping you away from any serious injuries, and keep you functioning normally.
Daniel Burg is a insurance consultant. To make guaranteed personal injury claim contact a specialist today and visit his recommended website for more information at http://www.firstpersonalinjury.co.uk/.
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