Wednesday 30 May 2012

WHAT IS WHIPLASH?


Whiplash is a general, nonmedical term given to acute grievances which involve a snapping of the turtle neck in a forward furthermore shy motion. Clinically, whiplash is known as hurtful cervical set of symptoms before cervical rushing/deceleration syndrome (CADS) (Forman and Croft, Whiplash Injuries, Williams and Wilkins, 1988). The violence and momentum of the whiplash accident prevents the normal force reflex which, under other state of affairs, would serve to protect the neck. The most frequent victim of whiplash is a person sitting in a at a standstill bus who is hit from behind by an extra vehicle. Because the victim is relaxed and unaware of the in the near future accident, the impact throws the victim's head backward, overextending the neck. Immediately recoil motion projects the beginning forward, bending the neck severely. Whiplash is a soft handkerchief wrong which not only affects muscles and ligaments; it sometimes involves the intervertebral disc, the spinal cord, and the edgy system.

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