Extracervical Symptoms After Whiplash Trauma

Magnússon, Torfi

doi:10.1046/j.1468-2982.1994.014003223.x

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“…Headaches are generally reported with high frequency and risk relevance among whiplash subjects, [43][44][45][46] as is lower back pain, [47][48][49] which would likely correlate with the Lifting subscale. Among a more general population of persons with mechanical neck pain, lower back pain is not expected to be as common.…”

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Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Multiple Linear Regression of the Neck Disability Index: Assessment If Subscales Are Equally Relevant in Whiplash and Nonspecific Neck Pain

Croft

Milam

Meylor

et al. 2016

Journal of Chiropractic Medicine

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Objective: Because of previously published recommendations to modify the Neck Disability Index (NDI), we evaluated the responsiveness and dimensionality of the NDI within a population of adult whiplash-injured subjects. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the responsiveness and dimensionality of the NDI within a population of adult whiplash-injured subjects. Methods: Subjects who had sustained whiplash injuries of grade 2 or higher completed an NDI questionnaire. There were 123 subjects (55% female, of which 36% had recovered and 64% had chronic symptoms. NDI subscales were analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis, considering only the subscales and, secondly, using sex as an 11th variable. The subscales were also tested with multiple linear regression modeling using the total score as a target variable. Results: When considering only the 10 NDI subscales, only a single factor emerged, with an eigenvalue of 5.4, explaining 53.7% of the total variance. Strong correlation (N .55) (P b .0001) between all variables was found. Multiple linear regression modeling revealed high internal consistency with all coefficients reaching significance (P b .0001). The 4 NDI subscales exerting the greatest effect were, in decreasing order, Sleeping, Lifting, Headaches, and Pain Intensity.

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Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Multiple Linear Regression of the Neck Disability Index: Assessment If Subscales Are Equally Relevant in Whiplash and Nonspecific Neck Pain

Croft

Milam

Meylor

et al. 2016

Journal of Chiropractic Medicine

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“…Extracervical symptoms were assessed in 38 patients after whiplash trauma [6]. All had pain and tender points in the neck, and 10.5% fulfilled the criteria for diagnosing FM.…”

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Musculoskeletal injury as a trigger for fibromyalgia/ posttraumatic fibromyalgia

Buskila

Neumann

2000

Curr Rheumatol Rep

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The issue of musculoskeletal injury as a trigger for fibromyalgia (FM) is controversial. The present review critically evaluates the evidence that trauma can initiate FM, specifically addressing the scope of the problem, the issue of causality, possible pathophysiologic mechanisms, and medicolegal aspects. One major problem is the fact that most of the data come from anecdotal reports and small case series and not from controlled prospective studies. Overall data from the current literature are insufficient to indicate whether causal relationships exist between trauma and FM. However, recent reports suggest that soft tissue trauma to the neck can result in an increased incidence of FM compared with other injuries. Future studies should prospectively document the chronology of symptoms from the onset of trauma and repeatedly evaluate the patients for disability, quality of life, change in occupation, and litigation status.

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“…Widespread attention has been paid to neck sprain because of the enormous increase in the whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) due to car accidents, especially over the last decades [1,6,9,19,34,41]. However, neck sprain is not only caused by car accidents.…”

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Neck sprain not arising from car accidents: a retrospective study covering 25 years

Versteegen

Kingma²,

Meijler

et al. 1998

E Spine J

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IntroductionNeck sprain has usually been associated with car accidents. Widespread attention has been paid to neck sprain because of the enormous increase in the whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) due to car accidents, especially over the last decades [1,6,9,19,34,41]. However, neck sprain is not only caused by car accidents.The diagnostic rubric "sprains and strains of the neck" from the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9 CM) from the World Health Organization is used by the majority of hospital-based trauma registries. Whiplash is a component of this diagnostic rubric and, according to Penning [26], the primary mechanism of whiplash trauma is a hypertranslation of the head. In contrast to the enormous bulk of whiplash literature, as far as we know, only a few studies have focused on neck sprain. Going back to 1970, we retrieved 19 studies from Medline [21] about neck sprain, of which 9 were about neck sprain due to car accidents [3,7,11,13,14,32,38,40,42] and 3 were about neck sprain due to sports injuries [5,18,35]. The remaining seven studies, in which the aetiology is unclear, describe treatment and research methods [4,12,15,20,23,37,39]. Research results from 1970 were based on data from hospital registries in which no distinction was made between inpatients and outpatients. As far as we know there are no studies analysing trends in neck sprain Abstract During the 25-year period 1970-1994, 680 patients were diagnosed with neck sprain due to causes other than car accidents at the Emergency Room of the University Hospital Groningen. The purpose of the present study was to analyse the prevalence, groups at risk and trends in patients with neck sprain. We defined the population as patients diagnosed with neck sprain that was not due to a car accident (NCA). The binominal test was used to obtain measures of statistical significance, ∆ x was used to obtain both the total increase in the number of neck sprain victims over the whole period and the relative contribution of successive 5-year periods. Over the 25-year period a steady increase in the number of patients was observed from 55 in 1970-1974 to 241 in 1990-1994. The highest

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Extracervical Symptoms After Whiplash Trauma

Cited by 66 publications

References 27 publications

Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Multiple Linear Regression of the Neck Disability Index: Assessment If Subscales Are Equally Relevant in Whiplash and Nonspecific Neck Pain

Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Multiple Linear Regression of the Neck Disability Index: Assessment If Subscales Are Equally Relevant in Whiplash and Nonspecific Neck Pain

Musculoskeletal injury as a trigger for fibromyalgia/ posttraumatic fibromyalgia

Neck sprain not arising from car accidents: a retrospective study covering 25 years

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