WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU HAVE WHIPLASH?

Whiplash should not be untreated. Severe whiplash usually happens during a car accident. You should call a doctor immediately after a whiplash injury. Don't delay visiting your doctor, because that will increase the chance of serious neck damage.

What's Whiplash Exactly?
Whiplash usually causes stiff and painful neck and shoulders. It's not unusual for people who suffer whiplash to complain that they feel like they have a bowling ball weighing down on their shoulder blades. The neck muscles are too tired and too inflamed to support the weight of the head—even when lying down.

How Does Whiplash Happen?
Whiplash usually happens after a sudden, unexpected movement or extension of the neck. A sudden movement of the head, backward, forward, or sideways can cause serious neck injuries. Severe whiplash cases happen mostly during a car accident.

During the car crash the soft tissue structures of the cervical spine or neck region are injured, causing long term neck pain. Usually whiplash is a strain of the neck muscles or sprain of the ligaments that move and support the spine and head.

What Are The Whiplash Symptoms?
These signs and symptoms of whiplash may not show immediately. Sometimes it takes hours or days to feel the whiplash symptoms after the accident. Here are the most common whiplash symptoms:

1. Difficulty moving your neck around
2. Headache
3. Neck pain
4. Neck swelling
5. Muscle spasms (in the side or back of your neck)

According to an article of spineuniverse.com, 66% to 70% people who has whiplash injuries are experience headache.

Your Should Seek Medical Care Immediately
It's recommended to call for medical advice immediately after the injury. Call your doctor and ask for advice. The risks associated with a possible neck injury are far too great to attempt to diagnose and treat yourself.

Whiplash not only happens during a car accident. It can also be caused by sport injuries. Most people don't seek medical treatment after a light whiplash injury. This is very risky, because sometimes whiplash symptoms can take years to develop. The earlier you seek medical advice for whiplash injuries, the better.

Could A Neck Stretcher Help You Overcome Whiplash?
Every year over 250,000 people in the United States alone suffer whiplash. This common consequence of car crashes is a kind of "neck stretcher" of its own. When a driver slams on the brakes, the car stops but the passengers inside it are still moving forward. The passenger is slammed forward and then back, straining the muscles, tendons, nerves, and fascia of the neck.

How The Exercise That Saves Your Back Can Hurt Your Neck.
Unfortunately, even if you have enough sick leave to take to bed after suffering whiplash, bed rest can actually trigger lower back problems, too. You have to keep moving. The problem is, walking around is what usually triggers even worse pain in the neck after whiplash.

Part of the way your body keeps its balance when you walk is by moving the neck and shoulders up and down. If they are injured, every movement can trigger pain—so part of the solution to supporting normal neck movement after whiplash can be a "neck stretcher."

You Can Get "Angelic" Protection From Your Neck Stretcher.

A neck stretcher is nothing more than a neck brace in the shape of a halo. Looking a lot like a neck pillow you might use to get sleep on an airplane, a neck stretcher is stuffed with natural materials that are soft enough but not too soft to protect the neck against the forces of gravity without limiting range of motion.

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