Whiplash Injuries

This comprehensive resource addresses the evaluation and management of the most common painful ailments and injuries encountered by patients after a motor vehicle accident, including whiplash injuries and low impact injuries. The unique approach of categorizing injuries enables the clinician to quickly diagnose the type of injury and develop a treatment plan. Special emphasis is placed on the controversial topic of how injuries (including musculoskeletal, neurological and closed head injuries) can occur in the face of a "low impact collision.

• Represents the rehabilitation team treating whiplash injuries
• Useful for participating as an expert witness in a litigation trial.
• Biomechanics of the low impact collision in conjunction with medical information is the most unique selling point.
• Describes how a closed head injury can occur with a low impact collision.
• Multi-disciplinary team of contributing authors.
• Wealth of research and biomechanical information in conjunction with the clinical information.
• Athletic-injury categorization enables clinician to proceed quickly up the ladder of differential diagnosis by ruling out (or in) diagnoses based on a familiarity with those typical of this sort of injury.