Epidemiology of whiplash
Epidemiology of whiplash: "Epidemiology of whiplash"Whiplash associated disorders have become an international medicolegal and social dilemma. Physicians are not sure what the best therapeutic approach should be, and the courts are finding the topic growing ever more controversial. There are many evident paradoxes in the development and presentation of such disorders. We will focus particularly on the remarkable epidemiological findings covering the "natural history" of this problem, and provide a biopsychosocial model to explain these observations.
A model that considers that chronic symptoms reflect some form of chronic, injury related damage cannot account for wide differences in the prevalence of such behaviours between different countries and even different regions of the same country.
SINGAPORE AND AUSTRALIA
The behaviour of reporting chronic symptoms, which once was so commonly observed in whiplash patients in Australia, does not occur in Singapore.1 This is despite there being at least as many collisions in Singapore. According to J L . . . [Full text of this article]
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