Tag: whiplash:
Engineered for Survival: How 60 Years of Vehicle Safety Advances Changed Spine Injuries After Rear-End Crashes
Today, I want to talk about something that comes up often in my practice: how dramatically the nature of spine injuries from rear-end car crashes has changed since I started practicing in the early 1990s, and how much further back the real transformation began. When people picture a “whiplash injury,” they often imagine the same […]
Whiplash, a spine surgeon’s perspective
Unfortunately, whiplash has automatic negative connotations to most people. I hope we can have a civil discussion about this very emotional, personal, and at times, controversial topic. Whiplash does have it orgins related to locomotion. It was first described as an “acceleration-deceleration” motion to the neck (Crowe, 1928) typically cause by a collision. In the 1980’s the […]
