Whiplash is the term given to describe the sudden movement of the neck in a forwards and backwards motion.  This causes the soft tissue in the neck to be stretched and strained.  Whiplash is most commonly caused by car accidents, but whiplash can also be caused by other accidents, including slips and trips.

What are the symptoms of whiplash?

The most common symptom of a whiplash injury is pain and stiffness in the neck.  However, whiplash can also cause a number of other symptoms, including back and shoulder pain, headaches, loss of movement in the neck, blurred vission and pins and needles.

Symptoms of whiplash may not be experienced immediately after an accident.  This is becuase following an accident adrenalin can often take over, supressing the pain and affect of whiplash for several hours.  In fact, it is not uncommon for symptoms of a whiplash injury to go undetected for several days.

The severity of a whiplash injury can vary significantly from person to person.  While some people make a full recovery within a few days or weeks, other people can suffer with a whiplash injury for several months or even years.

How is a whiplash injury caused?

Whiplash is most commonly caused when a car crashes into the rear of a stationery or slow moving vehicle.  However, whiplash can also be caused by other road accidents, as well as slips and trips.

Although your head is restrained during a car crash by your seatbelt, your head is not.  Therefore following impact your head is thrown backwards and forwards, causing the whiplash injury.  Generally speaking, the greater the impact, the more severe the subsequent whiplash injury will be.  However, even a slow moving minor car accident can result in a whiplash injury.

If you have been involved in an accident and would like some advice on making a whiplash compensation claim, contact us on 0800 180 4633 or complete our online personal injury claim form.

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The first stage in making a whiplash claim is to talk to one of our dedicated legal service advisors. During this initial conversation, which generally takes around 5 to 10 minutes, one of our legal service advisors will discuss your whiplash injury and the details of your accident. Our legal service advisors will also be able to answer any questions you have about making a whiplash claim. At the end of this initial conversation you will be informed whether or not you have a potential claim for whiplash. To determine whether or not you may be entitled to make a whiplash compensation claim, you will be asked a few questions, including the following:

• Have you had an accident within the past three years?
• Did you suffer a whiplash injury, or any other injuries, as a result of this accident?
• Have you taken any other legal advise about this accident claim?

The next stage in making a whiplash compensation claim is a free consultation with one of our specialist whiplash claim solicitors. The consultation is completely free and without obligation. This gives you a good opportunity to discuss your whiplash claim with the solicitor before decided whether or not your would like to continue to make a whiplash claim.

If you do decide to make a whiplash compensation claim through our team of dedicated whiplash claim solicitors, it will be carried out on a no win no fee basis. Our solicitors can also guarantee 100% compensation so you will not have to spend any money to make a whiplash claim from start to finish.

Make a whiplash claim today!

If you think you could be entitled to make a no win no fee whiplash compensation claim, or would simply like some advice on making a whiplash claim, contact us on 0800 180 4633 or complete our online personal injury claim form.

For more information on whiplash and making a personal injury compensation claim for a whiplash injury, click on the links to the right of this page.

If you are looking for a whiplash injury solicitor to make an accident compensation claim, we can help. Our whiplash injury solicitors all work on a no win no fee basis. This means that if your whiplash claim is not successful, you do not pay your whiplash injury solicitor a penny. As our whiplash injury solicitors also provide a 100% compensation guarantee, you also do not have to pay a penny if your injury claim is successful.

If I do not pay my whiplash injury solicitor, how does the solicitor get paid? – Your whiplash injury solicitor will recover their costs from the third party insurance company – that is the insurance company of the person that was at fault for the accident which caused your whiplash injury. The solicitor may also receive a success fee on top of their costs.

Our nationwide panel of personal injury solicitors specialise in no win no fee whiplash compensation claims and have helped thousands of people make whiplash claims throughout the UK. Our whiplash injury solicitors can therefore ensure that you receive the exact amount of compensation that you are entitled to.

If you have had an accident and feel you may have a potential whiplash injury claim, contact our specialist whiplash injury solicitors. Call today on 0800 180 4633 or complete our online personal injury claim form.

For more information on whiplash and making a no win no fee whiplash compensation claim, please click on the links to the right.

The amount of compensation you receive for whiplash injuries varies from case to case depending on the severity of the whiplash injury. The more time you spend recovering from your whiplash injury the more money you will be entitled too.

The amount of compensation you maybe entitled to for claimants who only suffer a minor strain and only suffer for a few weeks the amount could be as little as £750 up to £2,550..

A slightly more moderate type of whiplash injury where the injury has exacerbated or accelerated some pre-existing unrealted condition, the amount of damages could be in the region of £4,575 to £8,150.

Very severe cases where the injured are severely disabled with permanent spastic quadriparesis these claims may have a value of up to £86,500 allthough these cases are rare. The person would have very little or no movement in their neck and suffer from severe headaches.

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As well as carrying out exercises, in some cases of whiplash it may also be necessary to take some form of pain relief.  Normally paracetamol would be sufficient, but in some cases your doctor may prescribe some stronger painkillers.

It is important that you try to exercise and continue your normal routine as soon as possible, as research has shown that whiplash patients who rest for several weeks and wear a soft collar actually take longer to recover.

Below are some exercises to help relieve the pain of a whiplash injury from netdoctor.co.uk.

• Stand against a door or a wall with your head facing forward and move your eyes so you look towards the two, four, eight, and 10 o’clock positions. Repeat this a few times. This eye movement causes a slight movement in some deep muscles in the back of the head.
• Next, take a step forward and perform the following movements.
• Bend the back of the head carefully forward as if taking a bow. Return to the starting position with your head straight and facing forward.
• Draw the chin in towards your neck and bend the head carefully forward. Return to the starting position. Bend the head backwards far enough to look at the ceiling. Return to the starting position.
• Tilt the head sideways, so the right ear is near the right shoulder. If possible try to maintain the glance at a fixed point at eye level. Return to the starting position. Repeat this action with the head tilted to the other side.
• Turn the head as if trying to look backwards over the shoulder, first to the left and then to the right. Imagine following a horizontal line on the wall at eye level.
• You can also use a beach ball or a soft ball to exercise the head and neck muscles. Place the ball between the wall and the forehead and then try to move it around on the wall in circles or figures of eights. Repeat the exercise, this time placing the ball between the back of the head and the wall.