Who is at fault?

Warwick_Hunt

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

Yes. Whiplash results from hyperextended neck in a sudden acceleration as far as legal assessment of RTA victims goes. Our van driver wouldn’t have a chance of convincing anyone he had whiplash.

So you’re a doctor.

Are you saying you can’t get a soft tissue injury to your neck by deceleration?

qwert_yuiop

Warwick_Hunt wrote: »

So you’re a doctor.

Are you saying you can’t get a soft tissue injury to your neck by deceleration?

No. It won’t be whiplash though. Even whiplash may not be whiplash, given recent thinking. Many specialists don’t believe in it.

Warwick_Hunt

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

No. It won’t be whiplash though. Even whiplash may not be whiplash, given recent thinking. Many specialists don’t believe in it.

No you can’t injure you neck?

qwert_yuiop

Warwick_Hunt wrote: »

No you can!!!8217;t injure you neck?

You can injure the soft tissue in your neck in a deceleration. It is not regarded as whiplash. A hyperextension is more significant than a flexion.

Warwick_Hunt

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

You can injure the soft tissue in your neck in a deceleration. It’s noy regarded as whiplash. A hyperextension is more significant than a flexion.

So he could have a claim.

As you’re the only doctor on here we’ll just call it whiplash any way. Bit like a hoover is a vacuum cleaner.

RichardD1970

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

Yes. Whiplash results from hyperextended neck in a sudden acceleration as far as legal assessment of RTA victims goes. Our van driver wouldn’t have a chance of convincing anyone he had whiplash.

So why does the NHS website and every other online resource that I have checked disagree with you?

Can you provide a link to the relevant legal documents?

qwert_yuiop

RichardD1970 wrote: »

So why does the NHS website and every other online resource that I have checked disagree with you?

Can you provide a link to the relevant legal documents?

No, I can’t, but good luck persuading your doctor you’re suffering from whiplash if you’re the above van driver. As I say, it’s becoming increasingly likely to find your doctor doesn’t actually believe in whiplash injury. It’s a condition strangely prevalent more in the uk and Ireland than everywhere else.

RichardD1970

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

No, I can’t, but good luck persuading your doctor you’re suffering from whiplash if you’re the above van driver. As I say, it’s becoming increasingly likely to find your doctor doesn’t actually believe in whiplash injury. It’s a condition strangely prevalent more in the uk and Ireland than everywhere else.

OK, I'll take your unsupported word for it over every other source that I can find on the internet from the NHS to Wiki to the Ambulance chasers and insurers ect.

Of course you could just be being pedantic and pointing out that whiplash is a colloquialism for injuries caused by "Cervical acceleration–deceleration" (CAD) which describes the mechanism of the injury. The same as RSI is a colloquialism for Muscular Skeletal injuries sustained in specific manner.

Or shall we just go back to using the old term, railway spine?