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With whiplash being such a common car accident injury it is inevitable that scientists will seek to explain the problem. One of the symptoms of the injury, Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMJ), a chronic inflammation of the joint that connects the skull and jaw, has proved particularly controversial, with a number of studies attempting to explain the disorder as a whiplash compensation phenomenon rather than a real injury.
One such study, Ferrari R, Schrader H, Obelieniene D, et al. Prevalence of temporomandibular disorders associated with whiplash injury in Lithuania. Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, involved surveying 165 people who had been involved in rear-end accidents 27 months after the collision took place.
At first glance the study is interesting, appearing to indicate that there is no relation between TMJ and rear-end collisions. The authors reported that 2.7% of those involved in rear-end accidents reported symptoms after the 27 month period, in comparison to 3.3% of the collision-free control group.
The authors explain these findings in the following way:
"Headache, jaw clicking, dizziness, and auditory complaints are common in the general population in many Western societies. Presumably, even if the victim had not been in an accident, he or she would carry some risk of developing such symptoms, inasmuch as they are quite prevalent in the general population.
"As an accident victim, and especially as a claimant, the whiplash patient is in circumstances in which excessive and detailed symptom recording is compelled. Previously unintrusive symptoms (largely ignored in daily life) become far more intrusive after an accident, and the presumably physical (biologic) sources of the symptoms, which are not due to accident injury, may act as a substrate for the effects of psychosocial factors in the generation of an apparent TMJ after whiplash.
"Also to be added are the effects that anxiety, anger, resentment, and battling with one's insurance company have on symptom reporting. Finally, the possibility cannot be ignored that to the extent that TMJ symptoms after whiplash are widely publicized, insurance fraud also increasingly plays a role."
However, many within the neck injury field have doubted the study's integrity on the grounds that it did not study those with whiplash injury, nor those making whiplash compensation claims, instead looking only at 167 people who had been involved rear-end collisions.
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