In my work, I deal with a great number of people complaining of “whiplash” (more appropriately and correctly described as an acceleration-deceleration injury to the spine). Without fail, these people when describing the accident suggest that their head was thrown forward, and then moved back.
Wrong.
The head moves back in a rear-impact collision, then forward, then as you are restrained (hopefully) by your seatbelt your body comes to a complete rest.
It never ceases to amuse me when I hear people say 10 times during the course of an examination that their head was thrown forward, and then slammed backwards.
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That is funny, actually. Kinda lawyer-ish humour, though... ;)
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