If you have ever been in a car crash and experienced pain in your neck after a sudden injury, you have most likely had whiplash. At Focus Physiotherapy, our team of registered physiotherapists understands the mechanism and anatomy involved in a whiplash injury. As a result, when you’re in search of reliable, knowledgable and trustworthy physiotherapists for Whiplash Injury Treatment Islington look no further than Focus Physiotherapy.
What is Whiplash?
Known as Cervical Strain and Whiplash Injury, describes a variety of symptoms that occur when the neck jolts or snaps after an accident or injury, resulting in the muscles and tendons in the neck being suddenly stretched and torn.
The most frequent cause of Whiplash is a car accident; however, the speed of the vehicles involved or the level of physical damage to the car may not correlate to the intensity of neck injury. Contact sports injuries, falls, and blows to the head, and sudden holts of the head are other common causes of Whiplash. Whiplash is classified on a scale of 1 to 4 the most severe whiplash being accompanied by a cervical fracture.
Whiplash Symptoms
Although sometimes pain as a result of whiplash injury is immediate, in some cases, it can take several hours or days before you feel pain. However, the symptoms of whiplash are often hard to ignore.
Symptoms include, but are not limited to:
- pain
- stiffness
- tenderness
- difficulty concentrating
- ringing in the ears (Tinnitus)
- jaw tightness or trouble chewing
- decreased range of motion
- tightness in the neck muscles
