News-Medical.net published an article on December 20,2011 ( link )reviewing a special article in Spine discussing new ideas for the treatment of whiplash to reduce the chances of the development of chronic pain and disability. Severe pain, the presence of headache, extremely limited neck movement and psychological stressors could have an impact on the long term outcome of recovery.
While this article seems to suggest that new approaches are going to be examined going forward, your family doctor is the person best suited to assist you with your individual symptoms should you be injured in a car accident, pedestrian accident, or cycling accident with another motor vehicle. What is obvious is that the sooner you tell your doctor about your symptoms, the sooner that they can start to help and guide you to the correct treatments. From a legal perspective, early reporting to your doctor assists in proving that your injuries and symptoms are a result of the collision.
