title: Neck motion evaluation after whiplash: a radiographic and kinematic protocol.
abstract: Evaluation of functional damage is the main aspect in the diagnosis of whiplash injury, therefore some type of instrumental testing is strongly needed. We describe an instrumental protocol to test subjects with whiplash, to support clinical evaluation, in order to solve the difficulty of evaluating the functional injury and the lack of fixed parameters capable of identifying this kind of injury. Eighty subjects suffering from after effects of whiplash and seventy five normal subjects undergo two instrumental tests: kinematic examination of neck mobility, and measurements of extension-flexion X-rays of the cervical spine. The results exhibited by the traumatized patients have been compared with the normal range of motion obtained from the data bank of the normal subjects. This is a report in progress of a larger research on whiplash evaluation in a clinical setting.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, Histology and Forensic Medicine, University of Florence.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bonelli
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Donati
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Maltoni
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Puglisi
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Norelli
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000328:Adult; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009068:Movement; D009333:Neck / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011859:Radiography; D012016:Reference Values; D014911:Whiplash Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*