Let us suppose that one day you carried a bowling ball around for the entire day, but instead of carrying it closely to your side, you held it a little distace from your body. You’d get tired very fast! It’s the same with your head. It it’s properly balanced that’s fine, but if it’s held even a little off center. You will start to suffer from fatigue as well as stress on your neck. Longworth Chiropractics can help you re-align your spine to balance your body back to the correct position. Our state of the art facility and our expert staff can help relieve the daily pain that you are experiencing.
Whiplash is a nonmedical term used to describe neck pain following an injury to the soft tissues of your neck (specifically ligaments, tendons, and muscles). It is caused by an abnormal motion or force applied to your neck that causes movement beyond the neck’s normal rang of motion.
- Whiplash happens in motor vehicle accidents, sporting activities, accidental falls, and assault.
- The term whiplash was first used in 1928, and despite its replacement by synonyms (such as acceleration flexion-extension neck injury and soft tissue cervical hyperextension injury), it continues to be used to describe this common soft tissue neck injury. Your doctor may use the more specific terms of cervical sprain, cervical strain, or hyperextension injury.
