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What is whiplash from a car accident

What is whiplash? Dr. Ron Losiewicz, D.C. of Injury Recovery Center in Lakewood, Colorado explains that whiplash is a mechanism, not a single injury: how the head and neck move in a rear-end collision. Learn how the neck is forced into an S-curve, snaps back and then whips forward as the seatbelt catches the body, why that loads the neck joints, discs and ligaments, and why there's no proven safe speed for a whiplash injury.

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