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Suffering from whiplash can be stressful enough without the side-effects sometimes experienced by victims. Due to the pain and loss of earnings that these symptoms, as well as the initial injury, can cause, the person may want to make a neck injury claim.
Some individuals may feel tired as a result of their injury due to pain interfering with the amount of sleep they manage to get every night.
Furthermore, research undertaken throughout the years, for example by Salit IE. in 1997, has shown that there is a potential link between musculoskeletal injury and chronic fatigue syndrome.
Trauma to the neck, caused by a whiplash injury can damage the workings of the ear. As the inner ear helps people balance, a disruption or injury of the inner ear's functions can result in the victim having trouble with their balance.
Some whiplash casualties can suffer blurry, fuzzy, or out-of-focus eyesight. This can be due to damage to the brain or brainstem, or in some other cases can be due to detached retinas.
The causes behind whiplash-related tinnitus are not entirely understood, but it is thought that perhaps a change in jaw alignment is to blame.
A person's arms may feel heavy or tingly due to nerve compression as a result of a herniated spinal disk. Likewise, damage to the spine can cause the victim low back pain.
There are two main reasons for the whiplash sufferer to experience bouts of poor concentration and memory and those are injury to the brain, or reaction to the drugs being taken to ease the pain of the injury.
All three of these symptoms can be associated to lack of sleep, a brain injury, or the prescribed drugs being taken. One or more of these could be the reason behind an individual's change in personality, and lead to them becoming irritable or depressed.
If you have sustained a whiplash injury in a non-fault accident, you could be eligible to make a compensation claim for your pain, suffering, and any resulting loss of earnings.
Contact YouClaim on 0800 10 757 95, talk to an adviser about making a neck injury claim using live help, or, alternatively, take a moment to fill in a short online claim form with a few basic details about your case, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
