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Injury Check:

Whiplash Doesn't Just Happen In Car Accidents

Published on Tue Mar 24, 2015

Also remember that neck ‘sprains’ and ‘strains’ aren’t synonymous.  Whiplash is a neck injury due to forceful, rapid back-and-forth movement of the neck, like the cracking of a whip. Many people associate whiplash with car accidents, but you can also suffer whiplash because of a sports injury or other trauma that causes neck strain when the head jerks forward or [...]
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