Whiplash injuries-what you must do to help your neck pain
Have you suffered from a Whiplash injury and still have neck pain? Here is some very good news. It could be simply because of one very simple thing that you are doing that is causing your pain. Over the Past twenty years I have seen hundreds of people who have had whiplash injuries and they had pretty much given up all hope of removing their neck pain and suffering. However, after I showed them how to reduce the strains on their necks which would allow their necks to heal completely their symptoms disappeared. That is, their neck pain that they had been suffering from for so long was no more. It is not a magic trick, as you will see; it’s just simple body mechanics.
I won’t bore you with the basic facts in regards to a whiplash injury because if you have it I am sure you have read volumes on the internet about ‘acceleration-decceleration’injuries. Of course, the most common reason people have whiplash injuries is from car accidents and the forces generated can be as much as 15 G forces through the neck. This amount of force can damage the capsules, ligaments and other soft tissues and even the vertebrae and discs. Then after time the neck should heal. However, many people put enormous forces on their necks all day every day which causes their neck pain. Remember, over 80% of neck pain is postural. I put that estimate at a very conservative level because many people with neck pain who have been diagnosed with pain from whiplash or arthritis can still have pain from their posture, not their arthritis!
Let me explain. If you have arthritis or a whiplash injury that is now chronic and you continue to sit with poor posture, namely the ‘forward head posture’ how will you ever know if your whiplash or arthritis pain is coming from your whiplash or arthritis? If over 80% of people have neck pain from their posture( look around your office or workplace, bus stops, your home and nearly everyone who uses a computer and you will see people who are slouching with their heads in a forward head posture.) it is endemic in our society and is getting worse! Now with teenagers sending text messages all day and when they are not doing that they tend to be slumped over their laptops for hours on end the problem in the next ten years will escalate enormously. A year ago in December in the United States, Americans sent 48 billion text messages- in the month of December alone! Last December, it increased to 110 billion. That means a lot of happy telecom companies, physical therapists, massage therapists etc and a lot of unhappy people with neck pain.
The mayo clinic state that the forward head posture leads to long term muscle strain, disc herniations and pinched nerves. So here you are with an already injured neck and injuring it further, or at the very least- not allowing it to heal- because you are constantly straining the soft and hard tissues.
A forward head posture is what produces over 80% of neck pain. It is THE cause. Don’t believe me? Go back to Google and check out the major cause if neck pain and you will see that it is postural. What does postural mean? A forward head posture. So, if you spend most of your day sitting and standing like this, how will you ever know if your pain is simply coming from your posture? You won’t until you fix it. You must fix the cause to remove the symptom-pain.
This is how I have helped hundreds of people who felt that they had to live with their pain forever. People with arthritis who were simply sitting poorly and compressing their joint capsules and facet joints became pain free almost instantly. People with whiplash injuries who addressed their posture day in and day out saw their pain subside and leave them permanently.
As I said, this is not a magic trick or some ‘new fabulous wonder technique’. It is basic mechanics. This is the exact reason why millions of people suffer from neck pain daily. This is the exact reason why the mayo clinic state that it leads to ‘long term muscle strains, disc herniations and pinched nerves’ and the exact reason why you too can become pain free.
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Crashes involving whiplash neck injuries happen at lightning-fast speeds, but if you have time to prepare: Put your head and your neck all the way back so that you’re in contact with the
seat back and the properly adjusted head restraint. Straight-arm the steering
wheel and get a good grip. If you are stopped, put your foot on the brake as
hard as you can. Look straight ahead, not in the rearview mirror – don’t have
your head turned at all. Put your neck back slightly so your eyes are looking
level up at about the top of the windshield. Scrunch your shoulders up toward
your ears and then brace.
I hope you never have to be involved in a car collision but at the very least I hope this will help you if something does happen. Happy motoring!
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Mark Perren-Jones has worked throughout the world’s health spas and health clinics. He did the majority of his study (7 years) in Australia and has treated thousands of clients over the past 20 years with all sorts of neck and back problems. He has studied acupuncture, massage, joint manipulation and mobilization, kinesiology, reflexology, Thai massage, Bowen technique and many other modalities to understand which therapies gets the best therapeutic results and which don’t for particular neck and back problems.
With his 20 years of clinical experience, years of diligent study and research Mark has put together this site so that you can benefit directly from his work. You will be taught not only how to treat your own pain but as importantly what causes your pain in the first place. With the knowledge you gain to remove the causes of your neck and back pain, means you will not have to suffer anymore. 
I have my new DVD out now which will show you in my easy 3 step approach how to alleviate your own neck pain.
Neck pain and especially stiff necks are not difficult to treat once you know how ( ie.remove the major causes of your neck pain and stiffness.)
I will show you how simple it is to treat your neck pain & stiffness both quickly and easily.