Whiplash injuries and rear-end-accidents in Norway

Whiplash injury is an injury mechanism, not a diagnosis. The essential feature of this injury mechanism is thought to be an initial hyperextention of the cervical spine followed by a rapid flexion. In whiplash cases we are generally often dealing with medically non-objectionable injuries with only subjective complaints such as neck pains, headaches, difficulties with concentration irritability and sleeping problems. The lack of objective criteria for a whiplash injury makes the recording and registration of this type of casualties very sensitive to various trends in the society. The scope of this article is to give an overview over the whiplash-syndrome over time in Norway.

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