Whiplash injury is one of the neck injuries that may be the result of car accidents, and in fact, recent statistic shows that a lot of people made claims for whiplash injury to motor insurance companies. However, Whiplash may also result from sports activities, especially contact sports like boxing, wrestling and taekwondo. This neck injury can also result from a fall from a horse, a bicycle or from just being shaken hard, like the shaken baby syndrome.

The degree of the neck injury depends on the impact on the neck, head or back. Most of the time, Whiplash symptoms are immediately experienced after the accident. However, there are times when the symptoms are delayed so it is always better to immediately visit your doctor after an accident. Whiplash symptoms are neck pains, or pain in the back or shoulders, dizziness, headaches (can be recurring or not), stiffness and fatigue.