Neck Injury

  • Advances in Spinal Cord Injury Recovery

    Advances in Spinal Cord Injury Recovery

    Two years ago, we reported on a medical study at the Keck Medical Center at USC in which a young man, 21-year old Kristopher Boesen, who was paralyzed from the neck down following a spinal…

  • Alar Ligament Injury Related to Chronic Pain in the Elderly

    Alar Ligament Injury Related to Chronic Pain in the Elderly

    The alar ligament restrains excessive axial rotation and lateral flexion and can be damaged in a whiplash-type injury.  When this occurs, the damage is typically to the ends of the alar ligament.  This tearing of…

  • Women with Whiplash Are Not More Anxious Than Men

    Women with Whiplash Are Not More Anxious Than Men

    An acute whiplash injury results from the sudden hyper-extension, hyper-flexion of the neck with an acceleration-deceleration type traumatic insult, and it is the most common soft tissue injury sustained in motor vehicle collisions.[1]  Most cases…

  • Soft Tissue Damage & Its Correlation to Whiplash Associated Disorders

    Soft Tissue Damage & Its Correlation to Whiplash Associated Disorders

    A 2011 study published in Spine found that there is evidence supporting a lesion-based model in Whiplash Associated Disorders (WAD).[1]     The study concluded that the best evidence on correlating soft tissue damage and WAD is…

  • Cervical Facet Capsular Injury and Biomechanics

    Cervical Facet Capsular Injury and Biomechanics

    Injury to the cervical facet capsular ligaments is a potential mechanism for chronic pain after an acute whiplash injury. It is generally well known and accepted in the medical community that car crash victims whose…

  • Neck and Car Crashes: A Bad Combination

    Neck and Car Crashes: A Bad Combination

    The neck is a very complex structure. Many medical researchers and healthcare providers have noted that the neck’s structure is more vulnerable and subject to injury than any other portion of the spine. The neck…

  • Whiplash Injury: Vehicle, Seat, Occupant and Tissue Responses

    Whiplash Injury: Vehicle, Seat, Occupant and Tissue Responses

    Gunter Siegmund, Ph.D., Eng.* is one of the leading research scientists in the field of motor vehicle collision injuries who works out of the School of Human Kinetics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.…

  • “Unseen” Cervical Injury From Motor Vehicle Collision Whiplash

    “Unseen” Cervical Injury From Motor Vehicle Collision Whiplash

    One of the enduring challenges to research into whiplash injuries from auto accidents is the fact that available technologies do not permit effective pathoanatomical examination of accident survivors. Autopsy of these patients while the surest…

  • Predicting Chronic Whiplash in Motor Vehicle Collision

    Predicting Chronic Whiplash in Motor Vehicle Collision

    By E. Paul Giersch, Attorney at Law A recently published study by researchers in Ontario offers a clinical decision rule for early prediction of long-term whiplash associated disorder following rear end motor vehicle collisions.* It also…

  • “Whiplash” Injuries – New Study Shows Significant Long Term Effects

    “Whiplash” Injuries – New Study Shows Significant Long Term Effects

    By Adler Giersch PS For years the battle has raged between those who maintain strain/sprain injuries of the type referred to in common parlance as “Whiplash” cause only short term health issues and those who maintain…