Nobody really knows when the term "whiplash injury" originated, and U.S. insurance companies, which each year pay out substantial damages to supposed whiplash victims, undoubtedly wish it never had. The sudden backward snap of the head to which whiplash is ascribed generally happens in rear-end automobile collisions; these annually result in thousands of cases of alleged neck injury. Yet standard medical dictionaries do not even mention whiplash, and in the District of Columbia's Medical Annals, Washington Surgeon Francis D. Threadgill insists that it is usually only a synonym for "malingering and self-delusion."...
Medicine: The Whiplash Controversy
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