Whiplash Injuries; Long Term Effects | Back to Health with Dr. Aaron Seaton

Hello everybody. This is Dr. Aaron Seaton with The Chiropractic Place. Today's video is about whiplash injuries and their long-term consequences of them. I have a lot of patients who come here that have had auto accidents in the past, some who have had them recently, so we need to understand when we're in a car accident, what should we do, because long-term, if there are long-term symptoms and problems, how do we try to minimize that risk as best we can so let's go to the journals that actually study this stuff... This journal was called injury. This study was done in June of 2005, and this study was on whiplash patients and what happens long-term. Do the symptoms still stay there? And they found that 71% of the whiplash-injured patients that they studied had symptoms seven and a half years later after their accident, about 48% of them had mild, 21% of them had what they'd considered moderate injuries, definitely injuries that were impacting their daily life, and there were 2% that had very severe injuries that needed further investigation to figure out what was going on, but combined we're talking about 71% of people, so seven out of 10 people who have a whiplash injury are going to have symptoms seven and a half years later, that's a lot. So if you're in an auto accident... https://www.reddingchiropracticplace.... The Chiropractic Place 1123 Hilltop Drive Redding CA, 96003 530-221-8443 www.reddingchiropracticplace.com