Stiff Neck after very slow RTA?
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A lady reversed into my car last night. I was stationary and on the brakes and she was doing no more than 10mph. Minimal damage, I felt fine afterwards, all good.
I kid you not I woke up this morning with the worst stiff neck I've had in my life. There's a dull ache from between my shoulder blades that runs up to the lower part of my neck. If I move my head in any direction I get a pain in the area I just decided. It's not unbearable, but certainly is unpleasent and is limiting the range of movement of my neck/head.
I thought I just slept funny, but the pain is still there a few hours in and doesn't seem to be clearing.
I'm not looking for help with a compo claim - Even I am skeptical to think a low speed bump could cause this level of discomfort, but I am just wondering if it is at all possible? I'm fairly young and haven't ever had problems with my back in this sort of area before.
I will repeat, the forces in the crash were very minor, further assisted by my lump of a s class I barely felt a thing. I'm just wondering if the force of being hit backwards against the brakes, coupled with maybe 'tensing' pre impact could have caused some sort of strain that would explain what I am feeling?
Any medical related advice welcome.
Cheers
I kid you not I woke up this morning with the worst stiff neck I've had in my life. There's a dull ache from between my shoulder blades that runs up to the lower part of my neck. If I move my head in any direction I get a pain in the area I just decided. It's not unbearable, but certainly is unpleasent and is limiting the range of movement of my neck/head.
I thought I just slept funny, but the pain is still there a few hours in and doesn't seem to be clearing.
I'm not looking for help with a compo claim - Even I am skeptical to think a low speed bump could cause this level of discomfort, but I am just wondering if it is at all possible? I'm fairly young and haven't ever had problems with my back in this sort of area before.
I will repeat, the forces in the crash were very minor, further assisted by my lump of a s class I barely felt a thing. I'm just wondering if the force of being hit backwards against the brakes, coupled with maybe 'tensing' pre impact could have caused some sort of strain that would explain what I am feeling?
Any medical related advice welcome.
Cheers
I am NOT a doctor, but I believe it's quite normal for whiplash. The muscles in your neck will be pulling tight and straightening your neck to avoid injury. You might think it's silly to get whiplash at 10mph, but these things happen. It's a sudden acceleration/deceleration injury we aren't engineered to tolerate.
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Whiplash/Pages/Sympto...
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Whiplash/Pages/Sympto...
I've had similar and I'd say even such a low speed impact could cause a whiplash injury.
While in college in Hull in 1978, I ran a Daimler V8250. In the city centre, I was at the lights on the brakes when a Datsun saloon tried to pass on the left and shunted my car's nearside rear quarter. No idea of his speed but it was quite a thump. It pushed my car foward across the crossing and was enough to burst the fuel tank (full) and drain it for me. The rear wing, quarter bumper and bootlid were wrecked.
On getting out, I found that the Datsun was well mangled n its front offside corner and the lady pasenger (no seatbelt) had suffered a loss - one of her front teeth was jammed in the dash roll top - blood everywhere.
Since my Daimler (a 1968 car) had no head restraints, I briefly saw the headlining. My neck was sore right away but by the evenng and for about a month afterwards it was agonising. There was a bit of crepitation in my cervical vertebrae but no cracks/fractures, as X-rays proved.
I went for a compo claim, given it was just plain old bad driving/impatience.Amazingly, my car wasn't written off - it was fixed, with new parts.
Thing is, the human head is no lightweight structure and the neck isn't designed to cope with such a force.
While in college in Hull in 1978, I ran a Daimler V8250. In the city centre, I was at the lights on the brakes when a Datsun saloon tried to pass on the left and shunted my car's nearside rear quarter. No idea of his speed but it was quite a thump. It pushed my car foward across the crossing and was enough to burst the fuel tank (full) and drain it for me. The rear wing, quarter bumper and bootlid were wrecked.
On getting out, I found that the Datsun was well mangled n its front offside corner and the lady pasenger (no seatbelt) had suffered a loss - one of her front teeth was jammed in the dash roll top - blood everywhere.
Since my Daimler (a 1968 car) had no head restraints, I briefly saw the headlining. My neck was sore right away but by the evenng and for about a month afterwards it was agonising. There was a bit of crepitation in my cervical vertebrae but no cracks/fractures, as X-rays proved.
I went for a compo claim, given it was just plain old bad driving/impatience.Amazingly, my car wasn't written off - it was fixed, with new parts.
Thing is, the human head is no lightweight structure and the neck isn't designed to cope with such a force.
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