Late sequelae of whiplash injury with dissection of cervical arteries.

Acute confusional state following a whiplash injury: a case of multiple cervical artery dissection.

Whiplash injuries from MedLink Neurology available at www.medlink.com

Historical note and nomenclature Whiplash is an acceleration-deceleration mechanism of energy transfer to the neck that may result from rear-end or side-impact motor vehicle collisions. Common whiplash is a trauma causing cervical musculoligamental sprain or strain due to hyperextension-flexion and excludes fractures or dislocations of the cervical spine, head injury, or alteration of conscious...

Neck pain and headache as a result of internal carotid artery dissection: implications for manual therapists.

Physical therapy (PT) knowledge and literature relating to vascular issues in the cervical spine has traditionally paid particular attention to vertebrobasilar insufficiency (VBI) related to manipulation. Although internal carotid artery dissection (ICAD) and its sequelae are well reported in medical and chiropractic literature, only a few reports appear in PT texts. Internal carotid artery pat...

Total cervical translation as a function of impact vector as measured by flexion-extension radiography.

BACKGROUND Clinical and cadaveric studies have implicated that sub-failure cervical instability likely occurs in a subset of whiplash injury patients. Cadaveric studies have suggested that female specimens suffer from more ligamentous stretch injury than males when exposed to simulated rear end crash vectors. However, these findings have never been tested in an in-vivo clinical setting. DESIG...

Antinociceptive reflex alteration in acute posttraumatic headache following whiplash injury.

Brainstem-mediated antinociceptive inhibitory reflexes of the temporalis muscle were investigated in 82 patients (47 F, 35 M, mean age 28.3 years, SD 9.4) with acute posttraumatic headache (PH) following whiplash injury but without neurological deficits, bone injury of the cervical spine or a combined direct head trauma on average 5 days after the acceleration trauma. Latencies and durations of...