Whiplash Litigation Neurosis 

“Some patients in the author’s study had associated injuries.  In addition to injuring their necks, they sprained their ankles or broke their wrists.  Normal painless function returned to their ankles and wrists in the expected period of time. These patients did not complain for month after month about painful ankles or wrists, but they did still complain of neck pain.  [...]

Vehicle Size and Speed Quote 

“Acceleration depends on the force applied and the inertia of the vehicle that has been struck. The force is dependent upon the weight and speed of the striking vehicle, so that a streetcar 
traveling as 3 mph can apply as much force and initiate the same degree of acceleration as a compact car traveling at 40 mph.” 

Ian [...]

Vehicle Damage v. Passenger Injury 

“The amount of damage sustained by the car bears little relationship to the force applied.  To take an extreme example: If the car was struck in concrete, the damage sustained might be very great but the occupants would not be injured because the car could not move forward, whereas, on ice, the damage to the car could [...]

Whiplash, Hearing Loss, and Upper Cervical 
Manipulation 

[“Little known sequelae of sprains of the cervical spine”] 
Schweiz Rundsch Med Prax. 
[This is a German journal, and the article is in 
German.  The abstract is also in English] 
December 2, 1999 
88(49):2021-4. 

Kaeser HE, Ettlin T. 
“After cervical sprain not only pain and 
neuropsychological disturbances may occur, but 
also the following sequelae: cervical dystonia, and 
torticollis, dizziness, hearing loss [...]

Acceleration Of Degenerative Disc Disease Following 
Whiplash Injuries 
“Follow-up roentgenograms taken an average of 7 years after 
injury in one series of patients without prior roentgenographic 
evidence of disc disease indicated that 39% had developed 
degenerative disc disease at one or more disc levels since 
injury.” 
There was an expected incidence of 6% degenerative change 
in the population over this period of time. 
“Thus, [...]