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Whiplash Injuries
Whiplash Injuries is expected by many to be
one of controversy. The controversy about whiplash, however,
is largely
manufactured.
Whiplash controversy is propagated by those who benefit from
it or those who are simply
uninformed
about whiplash. In contrast, recognizing that whiplash -in
all its manifestations- is a real and significant public health
burden, international consortia of automobile insurers from North
America to Europe, Japan to Australia, are actively engaged in whiplash
research. Whiplash research conducted
by the Spine Research Institute of San Diego (SRISD), for example,
compliments that of the European Whiplash Consortium and the
International Insurance Whiplash Prevention
Group (IIWPG) formed by Allianz Zentrum fur Technik (AZT), the
German Insurance Institute for Traffic Engineering (GDV), the
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), and the Motor
Insurance Repair Research Center (MIRRC), Thatcham. The National
Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has also been
continuously engaged in whiplash research for
many years. SRISD has also worked with members of these international
groups in the validation of the highly specialized rear impact
dummies, the RID2 (First Technology Safety Systems) and the BioRID
II (Denton ATD, Inc). International whiplash conferences
take place annually in Europe and the U.S., attracting whiplash
researchers, whiplash clinicians, governmental whiplash representatives,
manufacturers, and whiplash
educators from all parts of the globe who come together to present
their whiplash research and to learn from others
how best to deal with this growing pandemic, whiplash.
Conspicuously absent from these meetings are the purveyors of
the very small body of literature which suggests that true whiplash
injuries are unlikely, insignificant, and primarily
the product of greed and avarice. Spinal Injury and Whiplash Articles:
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