Manual and Exercise Therapies in Whiplash-Associated Disorders Alice Kongsted MANUAL AND EXERCISE THERAPIES Manual therapy is hands-on techniques aimed at decreasing pain and restoring biomechanical function. The term includes joint…

Precollision Risk Factors, Illness-Related Cognition, and Recovery After Acute Whiplash Trauma Tina Birgitte Wisbech Carstensen Lisbeth Frostholm Persistent pain and disability after whiplash trauma has become an increasingly significant problem…

Improving Psychologically Oriented Treatments for WAD Steven James Linton For reasons not fully understood, many patients who sustain a WAD (whiplash-associated disorder) recover quickly, while others develop long-term problems. Psychological…

A Biopsychosocial Perspective on Motor Vehicle Collisions: Beyond Forces, Flexion, and Fractures Dennis C. Turk James P. Robinson Over 6.7 million police-reported motor vehicle collisions (MVC) occur each year in…

Neurobiological Mechanisms of Whiplash Samuel A. McLean Among individuals involved in one of the fifty million motor vehicle collisions (MVCs) that occur worldwide each year [37], persistent musculoskeletal pain is…

The Clinical Examination for Risk Factors in Whiplash Trauma Helge Kasch Attempts to classify whiplash (WL) patients in order to predict chronicity and long-term disability following trauma have been unsuccessful….

How Do We Prevent the Transition from Acute to Chronic Pain After Whiplash Injury? Michele Sterling Whiplash (WL) injury following a road traffic crash is common, with recent figures suggesting…

What is Needed to Establish Valid Predictors of WAD Recovery? Linda J. Carroll Fatemeh Vakilian WHAT IS NEEDED TO ESTABLISH VALID PREDICTORS OF WAD RECOVERY? You are a clinician with…