Whiplash claims for Zygapophyseal joint disorders

Anyone considering making a whiplash claim may be interested to know that medical research has challenged the view of what actually causes the chronic neck pain that those who have been involved in car accidents suffer.

For many years it was firmly believed that residual scarring of muscles and ligaments caused whiplash-related neck pain but now the zygapophyseal-joint is thought to be the guilty culprit. However, researchers have reported that no objective findings through radiologic testing or physical examination are easily distinguished.

A whiplash injury is generally caused by the forceful extension and flexion of the head during an accident, especially car accidents. It was always thought that this 'whiplash motion' caused the muscles and ligaments to stretch out of their natural range and, while healing, these muscles and ligaments scar and so can make the neck less flexible and more stiff and painful to move around.

However, according to Ketroser (2000), although many medical professionals throughout the western world use this school of thought, there is no scientific evidence that chronic neck pain is typically a result of muscle scarring. In fact, no biopsy, autopsy or any other form of documented testing has revealed that the hypothetical scarring even exists.

This is one such issue that makes whiplash injuries hard to diagnose. Subsequently, whiplash injuries are one of the most popular personal injuries to be faked by fraudsters making phoney compensation claims.

Although the whiplash motion experienced in a road accident can cause muscle stretching, this is highly unlikely to be chronic. The muscles and ligaments found in the neck are structurally identical to those in the arms and legs but chronic leg and arm strains that last months or years are almost unheard of.

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