Whiplash Car Accident Injury
Have You Been Involved in a Car Accident?

Whiplash is the most common kind of injury you can sustained in a car accident. Whiplash hurls your head violently backward and forward, injuring your neck. This is common occurs in car accidents when the car stops short or is involved in a rear and collision from an unexpected direction.

Whiplash can cause injury to intervertebral joints, discs, and ligaments, cervical muscles, and nerves. Whiplash is often encountered along with concussions and more serious injury. The effects of whiplash can be short term or life long, and can leave the neck forever vulnerable to injury. The injury can also extend to shoulders, arms and back.

 Long Term Disability

Whiplash leads to long-term disability in 10% of people injured in car accidents. Approximately 1,000,000 people are exposed to whiplash injury in the U.S. every year. Nearly 25% of these cases result in chronic pain and disability. 1 in 7 whiplash victims will still have significant pain more than 3 years after the accident.

Ladies with their smaller, more delicate necks are generally more susceptible to the injury than men, particularly those who have thicker, bull necks. Symptoms, which do not always appear immediately, may worsen after a day or two. The most frequent complaints are headaches, stiffness in the neck or back of the head, dizziness and back problems.

If you have been involved in a car accident and have been injured, it is important to contact a personal injury attorney as soon as possible. There is a limited time in which you are entitled to receive compensation for your injuries.