Whiplash Injury Symptoms — Headache After Whiplash Injury
by Gordon Cameron
www.cameronmedical.com
Posted Feb 4th 2007,
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Headache after whiplash injury is common. After neck pain it is the second commonest symptom that whiplash injury patients experience. The whiplash headache can often outweigh the neck pain in terms of severity — particularly in the early weeks after injury.
Nearly two thirds of whiplash injury patients experience headache. About half of those who develop headache after whiplash injury feel the pain in the back of their head, a further third get headache all over the head and a smaller number feel the whiplash headache at their forehead or behind their eyes.
Headache after whiplash injury often shows itself for the first time on the morning after the accident. The pain sweeps up from the neck and over the back of the head. Most whiplash headache sufferers find that heat on the back of the neck will ease the headache. Cold makes it worse.
Neck movements often aggravate whiplash injury headache — particularly if the neck is moved towards extension: looking up to the ceiling is often very painful.
Patients with whiplash related headache often also get shoulder pain and touching the big trapezius muscles over the back of the neck and shoulders often provokes pain or headache. There are often tender spots or trigger points in these muscles.
Women get headache after whiplash injury more often than men — the reason for this is unclear but might relate to the smaller structures of the female neck anatomy.
So what causes whiplash injury headache? Many research studies have looked to explain why whiplash injury causes headache. It seems most likely that the headache after whiplash injury arises from a mixture of inflammation in the neck muscles and irritation of the nerves that go from the neck, up and over the head.
Whiplash research has shown that whiplash injury headache can persist for a year or more in some patients — but for most the head pain improves within a month or two of the accident.
How should whiplash injury headache be treated? Well, the research is not good quality so there is no definitive answer to this. In my experience the headache is often quickly improved by hands on physical therapy or by acupuncture. Anti-inflammatory tablets help some patients and — for a minority of whiplash injury headache patients — injections deep into the spinal tissues can transform the situation. Similar ArticlesFibromyalgia — The Pain Of Living As time passes, eventually all pains will have their own names. Just like the term fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition associated with pain in the muscles and soft tissues surrounding the joints. There are only theories as to the causes of fibromyalgia. Some people believe that a continual disturbance in sleep may promote the… Hemorrhoids — Description, Symptoms and Treatment What are Hemorrhoids? 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