What's the difference between whipcord and whiplash?
Whipcord
Definition:
(n.) A kind of hard-twisted or braided cord, sometimes used for making whiplashes.
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Whiplash
Definition:
(n.) The lash of a whip, -- usually made of thongs of leather, or of cords, braided or twisted.
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(1) To provide a perspective on "whiplash" injury in Australia by examining conflicting evidence, which suggests on the one hand that the disorder is a culturally conditioned and legally sanctioned illness and on the other, that it is an occult injury which can cause chronic pain.
(2) Whiplash, or cervical acceleration extension injury, is due predominantly to hyperextension and prolongation of the neck, with rebound flexion.
(3) Psychological tests and psychiatric evaluation indicated that organic brain pathology was present in the whiplash patients, although to a lesser extent than in patients with traumatic encephalopathy.
(4) PEMT as described is safe for domiciliary use and this study suggests that PEMT has a beneficial effect in the management of the acute whiplash injury.
(5) Contact with the tentacles of the jellyfish had produced characteristic whiplash-like weals on the skin.
(6) The special features indicating neck involvement include: whiplash trauma by history, reduction of range of movement in the neck, ipsilateral shoulder and--occasionally--arm pain, and, further, the fact that attacks can be precipitated mechanically by the patients (by neck movements) or by the physician (by external pressure towards circumscribed points in the neck).
(7) Our investigation shows that skeletal lesions after whiplash injury, although very few, are shown by plain skeletal radiography.
(8) This disturbance of retention is not observed when the acquisition is performed before the whiplash.
(9) Chronic rheumatic pain syndromes such as the fibrositis syndrome, 'whiplash' syndrome, low back pain syndrome and regional pain syndrome are common clinical disorders of unknown cause.
(10) Case reports are given to discuss the pathomechanism and therapy of emphysema as a result of injuries of cranium and larynx, dental treatment, whiplash injury, adenotonsillectomy and spontaneously in asthma.
(11) Risk factors which should alert the medical team to possible coexisting brain injury include history of loss of consciousness at original injury, history of trauma to the head, whiplash injury to the neck, multisystem trauma, and admission of memory or attention deficits by the patient.
(12) Acute whiplash injuries are a common cause of soft tissue trauma for which the standard treatment is rest and initial immobilisation with a soft cervical collar.
(13) This article reviews the literature on whiplash shaken infant syndrome since Caffey's original review.
(14) Laryngeal ruptures are caused by vertical traction on the larynx and trachea, mainly by pushing the chin upon a dashboard or by so called whiplash trauma.
(15) In this report are described chemically-induced ulnar neuritis from cortisone injections about the medial humeral epicondyle; pressure ulnar neuritis in patients with enforced bed rest and from improper positioning on operating table with permanent neural deficit and the relationship of such hypermobile ulnar nerves to extension-flexion (whiplash) trauma to the neck.
(16) The published English language literature derived from MEDLINE covering epidemiological, pathogenetic and psychological aspects of "whiplash" injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, abnormal illness behaviour and iatrogenicity; the Australian legal literature; the printed news media; the Transport Accident Commission of Victoria and the State Government Insurance Commission of South Australia.
(17) During flexion whiplash, the torque at the occipital condyle reverses its direction at about 25 ms after impact.
(18) These case reports illustrate both sides of the controversy on the organic versus psychogenic etiology of the cerebral symptoms following whiplash-injury of the neck.
(19) Whiplash injuries usually result in neck pain owing to myofascial trauma, which has been documented in both animal and human studies.
(20) Otoneurological examination showed abnormalities in 9 of 17 whiplash subjects.