After a day at Six Flags Over Texas and a few rides of Batman, Judge Roy Scream, and the other roller coasters and spinning rides, you may have a little stiffness in your neck. You could think you have whiplash, but you don’t. Those rides have head rests specifically designed to protect your neck from […]
Texas summers aren’t complete without a trip to Six Flags Over Texas. This year you can include a ride on El Diablo, the world’s largest loop roller coaster. Uh, your neck would like to stay home… Believe it or not, one of the main causes of whiplash is self-inflicted. You guessed it — riding roller […]
Whiplash is a common neck condition that we’ve all heard about, usually in the context of a car accident. It occurs when there is a sudden backwards-forwards motion of the head. This movement can stretch the muscles and ligaments as the neck moves out of its normal range of motion. We treat whiplash at DFW […]
If you’re old enough to remember Dudley Do-Right, you’re old enough to remember Snidely Whiplash, Do-Right’s archenemy. His name was a dead giveaway, Whiplash, because no one likes getting whiplash. While not as interesting as the devious foil to poor Dudley, the whiplash most of us know is the kind we get in the neck. […]
Sometimes people think a person has suffered whiplash when they actually have not. The easy way to picture the condition is to picture its namesake, the whip. The movement right before a whip snaps is the thing to visualize. That rapid swaying of your neck backward and then forward or vice versa is the movement […]
