Whiplash Books

Whiplash is a serious injury, so you need to get off on the right foot to deal with it. Inform yourself!! Then empower yourself!! Life After Whiplash is the only book I have seen that tells things like they are, and told me the non-nonsense advice I needed to hear. You can't rely on others to cure you. They can help, and medications make it easier, but the bottom line is that you have to take things in your own hands. That's Ferrari's message. Yes, I found it hurt like hell at first, all over, but everyday was a little bit better, and I just kept moving, used ice and heat, Advil and Tylenol, and the occasional massage. Then I started a Pilates class and that not only reduced my pain, but it toned my abs. It took about 9 weeks for me to feel I was back to my usual self, but most of the gains come in the first few weeks. I don't like the doc's that just push pills, and I agree that if you meet a therapist that tells you they want to treat you for 6 months, tell them you got better things to do - like recover! Finally, chapter 4 is right on. Sex is good therapy. Does it hurt? Yes, but like the book says, who cares? Regular activity (of whatever motivates you most!) is the key to happiness and recovery after you wake up one day with severe whiplash.

I practice as a gp and I had reached the point where I just threw up my hands and admitted I had no answer to these whiplash types. Life After Whiplash may have been written for whiplash victims, but I think it's a real gem in the office. I use this book to explain to patients what they should do with their whiplash injury, answer their questions about jaw pain, dizziness, and numbness, and I can give patients clear, simple advice that makes sense and is easy for them to follow. It actually makes seeing whiplash patients enjoyable!...well... almost. I have been recommending this book to all my whiplash patients and so far they are taking the advice to heart and it is making a real difference in the success of treating this conundrum.

Chiropractic therapy continues to be helpful for neck and back sprains from acceleration/deceleration injuries. Chiropractic approaches are not based on manipulation alone, however, as we also engage education as a cornerstone of effective therapy. For chiropractors, Life After Whiplash provides simple, easy to understand explanations for the symptoms that accompany spinal disorder. Chiropractors can use this book to expand their repertoire and provide more complete care by giving Life After Whiplash their patients. I am now routinely providing my patients with copies of this book as part of the essential part of their therapy and insurers are willing to accept this as part of therapy costs. The better informed patients are, the better I can help them, and the more they value my services. I have only just begun handing out this book, but so far feedback from patients and insurers has been good.

Like many whiplash victims, after I got injured I needed someone to reassure me I was not going to be affected for the rest of my life, or at least what I could do to heal this injury right. My doctor told me to just not worry about this injury, and he spent 5 minutes with me before handing me a prescription for painkillers and physio. My physio never gave me any straight answers about why I was having all these aches and pains, and why I was so dizzy all the time, but then I got this book, and I got the answers I needed. I know that I can do a lot for myself to avoid having this injury take over my life, and finally I got answers to my questions. I understand my injury and I know what to do about it. I'm not a 100% yet, but I am feeling pretty good about things. Thanks Doc!

Reviewed by Debra Gaynor for Reader Views (1/07)

"Instead of elevating the moral character of society, the antidiscrimination mind-set pushes behavioral standards to the lowest common denomination." The civil rights movement accomplished laudable success in America. Racism is deplorable. But has the antidiscrimination movement had a backlash effect?

Racism has become a charge bandied around too swiftly. When assistance for the Hurricane Katrina survivors was slow in coming, people shouted racism. When teachers discipline black students we hear the shout of racism. Yet we see African Americans succeeding as never before.

"During the civil rights era of the 1960s, racial discrimination was easy to spot." It resided in laws that made it more difficult for minorities to find jobs, vote or to get a college education. Now racism is more understated, almost invisible. Today we have racial perplexity. While racism has not be completely eliminated but there has been great leaps in progress.

When it comes to racism whites shout "self-indictment to achieve a semblance of virtue." Today we look at percentages of minorities in the work place, we yell discrimination if the percentage is lower than the percentage of the general populations. "Allegations of racism have become an almost instinctive reaction to legal investigations of minority officeholders."

Citizens are so afraid they will be judged racist that they over look "destructive social behavior of its racial minorities." "This is a model that blames high incarceration rates not on criminal behavior but on overly harsh laws."

"Because of the power of race, and because of the unquestioned social abhorrence of racism, it has been used to attack an array of cultural values and institutions lying at the heart of the American experience. Race is being used to harm the reputation of American society. This has become a nation that is frightened, unconfident, suspicious and remorseful about everything "from illegal immigration to foreign policy."

Patrick Garry does an excellent job discussing racism in today's society. He has an objective attitude and opinion. He expresses it in uncomplicated and straightforward manner. Garry is stating what many of us have believed for a long time. Racism is deplorable but so is what is happening to our society today. We have become a society that is terribly afraid of a lawsuit, of being called a racist so we head the other direction, turning our country over to fear and chaos. Racism will not end until we redefine it. "Men are created equal" is no longer the battle cry of this country now it is "do not sue me." I highly recommend "Cultural Whiplash" to everyone. If we are to save our country we must stop seeing color and begin seeing humans.

One of the standard ploys in our present political climate is to deny the legitimacy of the other side to speak. If you never served in the military you are a chicken hawk if you advocate for a strong and active military. If you aren't a woman you can't speak on things deemed to be woman's issues. If you aren't a minority you cannot speak about race issues in our country. Worse yet, you are often presumptively assumed to be racist. It goes on and on and on and on.

The first example of the way our culture has been transformed by this fear to speak clearly and call things by their right names is that I have to first clarify things and say that the author (and I) are clear that racism has existed in America (and everyplace else around the world) and that it is a bad thing. Very bad. And while there are certainly racists (of all colors) living in America today, that isn't the same thing as saying that Jim Crow is alive and well. What has changed is that racism has to be found in many new and unlikely places. As the author notes in the chapter on "The Fog of Racism" we now have subconscious racism, subtle and covert racism, neoracism, metaracism, process racism, malignant and benign racism, cultural racism, enlightened racism, representational racism, institutional racism, and more. I don't know, but doesn't this all sound more like the work of academics and lawyers straining for fees than something along the lines of what galvanized the country in the early 1960s?

This book addresses the way race has become such a taboo for whites to discuss that when confronted at work or anywhere in the public square there is a profound unwillingness to stand up to the accusations that the debate has become profoundly one sided. There are some signs of life such as the affirmative action ban based on gender and race for public employment and awarding public contracts here in Michigan that passed 58% to 52%. However, the debate for this amendment is instructive.

The environment for public debate was so poisonous that every candidate for public office felt it important to be against this amendment. One group of its opponents formed an organization called By Any Means Necessary and felt the right to misrepresent the facts of the case and to try legal manipulations that were questionable at best. They were hoping for a judge, any judge, to overstep his or her legal authority and side with them and not allow the people to vote the amendment up or down. The judges rightly sided with the people regardless of their personal views, thankfully.

Polls on this amendment predicted that the voting would be very close. It wasn't. Why? Could it be that people feel so threatened by this issue that they can't even tell a pollster their true thoughts? Or is it that the polls were phony? I don't know. But we didn't have an open and honest and free discussion on this matter. Affirmative action based on factors such as income or educational opportunity is still legal in Michigan, but this was misrepresented in the press as well. But it has to be color and gender blind. You know, as the 14th amendment and Civil Rights Act of 1964 seem to require.

Patrick Garry takes us through the way the politics of race has contributed to the corruption of our culture, how it is caught up in the culture of moral relativism, actually contributes to the perpetuation of race consciousness and racism in the culture and how all of us are worse off by retaining such shackles and presumptions.

There are many vignettes provided in the book, but they are not given citations. I wrote the author and asked him if these were based on real events or were they fictional illustrations. He assured me they were real events, but that he did not provide citations because many of them are based on the lives of private citizens. He wishes he had made that clear in the book.

In the conclusion Garry sums up:

"Racism cannot be tolerated, but neither can the weakening of America's democratic and cultural foundations. And ideology of victimhood, fostered by a manipulated guilt over race, should not be allowed to distort governmental policies on such divergent issues as treatment of illegal aliens, and the ability of the United States to assert its own foreign policy independent of the United Nations. ... What started out as a noble effort a half century ago has been diverted into an often socially divisive force. But no longer can the majority culture simply retreat from the racial debate. It cannot continue to shirk its responsibility in that area; nor can it allow its unconfronted guilt to direct the nation's social policies. Guilt is no path to truth, just as dwelling on one's victimhood is no path to justice."

Interesting and thought provoking read.

Written by research advisor and law professor Patrick M. Carry, J.D, Ph.D., Cultural Whiplash: The Unforeseen Consequences Of America's Crusade Against Racial Discrimination is a harsh scrutiny of modern American culture, particularly in response to its current overemphasis upon the ills of racism and underemphasis upon other social ills including but not limited to crime, drug use, poverty, out-of-wedlock births, corporate greed and theft, and an overall culture of divisiveness and entitlement. Cultural Whiplash is mindful of the past necessity of affirmative action to break color barriers and anti-racism movements to fight discrimination in recent history, yet simultaneously exposes the harm that modern-day overimplication of such practices causes to blacks especially and to society in general. For example, affirmative action guidelines that allow black students to be admitted to academically demanding private schools or colleges they are not prepared to do well in simply predisposes those students to drop out or flunk out of school. New Orleans black leadership clearly failed its population well before Hurricane Katrina, as any examination of pre-Katrina New Orleans poverty and crime rates can attest, yet that same leadership is not held accountable for its own role in the Katrina disaster and aftermath in the way that national government and FEMA leadership is. Fear of accusations of racism curb any societal impulse to condemn rap lyrics that promote violent crime, let alone gang membership or violent crime itself, yet crime causes an enormous and disproportionate burden of cyclical suffering among African-American communities. Cultural Whiplash emphatically argues the need for stronger, more unified moral values as a universal preventative tonic and deterrent to crime, poverty, unemployment, and the exploding divorce and out-of-wedlock birth rates that correlate to all three social ills. A strongly recommended, serious-minded account that does not downplay the evils of racism, but rather sheds light upon all the other societal evils in need of immediate attention that have been severely neglected in favor of tunnel vision upon the evil of racism.

My name is Jill and I was injured in a car accident 11 years ago. I have read many books, but Dr. Nordhoffs is the best book I have ever used money on! Bravo from Jill Denmark

Dr. Nordhoff has put together an outstanding work that I use literally every week in my practice. I rate it as one of the top 2 books on the subject (The other is by Foreman and Croft). While our udnerstanding of the actual mechanisms of whiplash has changed in the past year (1999-2000), the rest of this publication is timely, informative, and balanced.

The illustrations are relative and informative, and the guidelines it presents are clinically effective.

This is one of very few good books written about whiplash associated disoders. I covers the topic from anatomy, biomechanics and pathophysiology (see the remarquable images of Rauschning)to the major economic issues of whiplash injuries. This book very thoroughly covers the psychological issues associated with whiplash and discusses the controversies about the "organicity" of whiplash associated disorders. I recommend this book to any clinician dealing wiith cervical disorders. It will also be of use to injury lawyers and insurance physicians.

Excellent! Puts to rest the notion that whiplash is a "lie", that chronic whiplash is a transcontinental, translingual conspiracy among malingerers. Puts to rest the false notions that come to us from the so-called "Lithuanian studies", which are debunked (again) in this book. The chapter by Drs. Freeman and Croft put to rest all of the falsehoods that have come to us from Ferrari, the Lithuanian studies, and the Quebec Task Force on Whiplash-Associated Disorders (who are actually on record as saying that "pain is not harmful"). The QTF on WAD was not a scientific study; it was a consensus of persons, many of whom have almost no experience with whiplash.

The chapter by Jonsson is excellent, showing us all of the organic injuries that occur in whiplash, most of which cannot be seen with even the most advanced imaging such as MRI.

Castro's chapter is one weak part of this book. Castro et al. cannot reach the conclusions they reach based on either their own or all the other research on low-speed rear-impact collisions. They conclude that "the limit of harmlessness" in low speed rear-impact collisions is around 10kph (6.2 mph). The major problem with this statement is that Castro et al. noted symptoms of whiplash injury in 29% of their study subjects, yet ignored their study results when concluding that similar impacts were harmless. The authors contradicted their own study findings in their conclusions.

A better choice on the topic of injury threshold would have been the studies by Siegmund, Brault, McConnell, West, Ono and Kaneoka. It is odd that these studies, most of which show an injury threshold at 2.0-5.0 mph delta V, were ignored by Castro et al. In fact, the Castro chapter cites only 12 references. That is very poor considering the nature of this topic and the many studies available on the topic.

The poorest chapter is the one by Marie Dayton, which says that the "no crash, no cash" policy of insurers makes sense. However, since 70% of all injuries occur at speeds below which there is damage to vehicles (see, West, Croft), this policy has no place in today's insurance company policies. Dayton cites only one reference. The editors have included most viewpoints, even this weak one, to their credit.

Other than that, the Belgians have put together an excellent text which should be an excellent resource for physicians and attorneys who need to care for the whiplash-injured. The fact that Ferrari, Russell and other so-called "experts" are completely ignored is a very good sign for this book. The real experts are here, however, including Radanov, Bogduk, Panjabi, Grauer, Cholewicki, Barnsley, Lord, Dvorak, Croft, Freeman, Svensson, Maigne, Pope, Magnusson, Sturzenegger, and many others.

Missing are Kaneoka, Ono and their Japanese colleagues, who have forever changed the way we look at whiplash injuries.

There are only two other books which come close to opening up one's mind about whiplash: Foreman and Croft's textbook on the topic (Williams & Wilkins, 1995), and a SPINE State of the Art Review text published in 1998 (Gerard Malanga, Ed., Spine Vol. 12, No. 2, May 1998).

Clearly this is one of the top three.

After I was in my accident, I looked everywhere to find information about whiplash injuries that wasn't a boring medical text. Advanced Whiplash Care was awesome! It walked me through the biomechanics of whiplash injuries, gave me information about what I can expect during my recovery, and even gave me a bunch of exercises and stretches that I could do to quicken my recovery. Best of all, it was written in an easy-to-understand conversational way. I highly recommend it!!!!

The Cervical Syndrome draws from an extensive bibliography. It contains numerous anatomical illustrations and diagrams. It also explains some unusual complications resulting from whiplash injuries which are rarely understood.

Mr. Melton has managed to make the engineering and medical literature on the topic of whiplash not only understandable, but also has presented it in a way that is highly organized and meaningful.

The Complete Guide to Whiplash is truly complete, and is able to separate the good science from the weak science. Fortunately, the latter, or "junk science" as it is known, makes up very little of the total literature out there. Melton does a good job of making this point, a very important one.

When lawyers and doctors confront the problem of whiplash, they often do it in a very superficial way. They, as well as insurance company claims representatives (although you can expect the behaviour in them), unfortunately, have not taken the time to read the available literature. They often succumb to the junk science, which is disseminated in ways to make it appear more important than it is. They fall prey to the great number of myths surrounding whiplash injuries, low speed collisions, and the injured parties themselves.

For example, let's see how many of the following questions you can answer correctly (remember, "low speed" is considered a 12-15 mph or less speed change (delta V) of the struck vehicle):

True or False:

1. Head restraints (head "rests") significantly reduce neck injuries in rear impact motor vehicle collisions.

2. In a typical whiplash-producing collision (rear-end impact), a relaxed person will be less injured than a tensed, braced person.

3. Wearing seatbelts increases the likelihood of neck injuries.

4. Low speed motor vehicle collisions commonly cause low back injuries.

5. Litigation has an effect on prognosis and patient complaints of injury.

6. It is highly unlikely for a person to sustain significant injuries in a motor vehicle collision with little or no vehicle damage.

7. Broadside (side impact) collisions cause more injuries than rear impact collisions at low speeds.

8. MTBI (mild traumatic brain injury) is uncommon in low speed collisions.

9. Symptoms of whiplash injury typically appear in the first few minutes after the collision.

10. Whiplash injuries (WAD) rarely result in chronic pain and are self-limiting.

Answers:

1. False, head restraints are ineffective (IIHS data) 2. False, all the human crash tests show this 3. True, since seatbelts arrived, neck injuries have increased 4. True, the low back is also injured 40% of the time 5. False, litigation has been shown repeatedly to have no effect 6. False, serious injuries occur at speeds of 10 mph delta V 7. False, rear end impacts cause more injuries 8. False, at 8.5 mph there is a 50-50 chance of concussion 9. False, they occur anytime after (avg 72 hrs post-impact) 10. False, about 50% of persons exposed to low-speed rear impact collisions are injured, and 50% of those develop chronic pain. 10% of the injured are permanently disabled.

Surprised? I sure was! Unfortunately, so are many doctors treating the whiplash-injured, and so are the lawyers who are supposed to understand the nature of this injury better than anyone in order to help injured persons fairly.

The fact is, if you doubt the answers to these questions, then you haven't done your homework; you haven't read the studies. What Melton's book does is summarize ALL the research, including the very important research from the past five to ten years. Every personal injury attorney needs this book, and every insurance company lawyer will have nightmares from it, since the well-done science always tells the truth, and the junk science fades away. Doctors with busy schedules will find good, usable information here as well, much needed in this age of managed care.

This book is very necessary to clue you in on some of the extra things you need to break or might miss - you do want to bankrupt that nasty company don't you?
And of course it offers locations of those sometimes hard to find yellow orbs so you know where you're going while you're tracking all over areas you've previously been.
Not to mention the extreme cuteness of Redmond and pal weasel photos.

I also found this book by accident: I was at the library while looking for books about shoulder pain and finger numbness. I was amazed to find out that my new pain was possibly related to my TMJ. My dentist, who I had once thought was excellent, sold me a very expensive night guard but never mentioned that a few exercises might immediately ease the pain in my jaw, lessen my headaches, and give me a sense that there is actually something that I could do to help myself. For helping me to understand the link between TMJ and other body pain and for giving me some tools to lessen that pain, I give this book 5 stars. (I am going to suggest to my dentist that he recommend this book to all his TMJ patients.)

This compact book is a treasure throve of great advice for tmj sufferers. It contains exercises, advice, everything needed to control tmj and more. And in an easy to read format. Exercise illustrations are also easy to follow.

It is nice to know that some people got help from this book. I did not, and here is why : The book is badly organized and the information while helpful is not straigh-forward.

2 years ago, I started having extreme pain chewing, and pain in my molars. I went to the dentist many times who did not find anything wrong with my teeth. I got a mouth guard and went to a oral surgeon and got MRI's etc. Nothing did help. After about 8 months my upper teeth ceased to hurt, but 2 lower rear molars still hurt, 1 even had a root canal and continued to hurt. My problem is tooth pain, and that is why I bought this book. There is little to help with the tooth pain issue in this book, and I once again thought it might be dental and got another root canal. That tooth continues to hurt as well. More trips to the dentist for maliclusion fixes, and examinations for cracked teeth turned up nothing. I have now scheduled an appt with the physical therapist to see if I can find a correlation between TMJ and my tooth pain. I have also visited a neurologist as well as an ENT. No one has any answers. I will try to go the TMJ route again. The pain is so bad I want to resign from my job and live with my parents ( I am 36 mind you).

I am going to try to find another book on Amazon that may help me better. This isn't a terrible book, but didn't help me very much other than to give some hope. There has got to be a better book out there.

Good luck if you are in a similar situation. You have my empathy.

I am a general dentist in state of Oregon. I loan this book to my patient who has TMD or think he/she has TMD. (Everyone has TMJ but not everyone has TMD) I let them read this book for couple weeks and a short follow up visit. Most patients are amazed how much better they feel by following the instructions from this book. I highly recommend this book. Simple diagram and easy to read instructions. Patient treat themselves without medication is a wonderful thing!
Chris Tiu DMD

Hi. I rate this book 1 star not because it is a poorly written book, but to bring to your attention that this book, in regards to "self help" does not work for everyone.

I bought this book due to all of the 5 star reviews and declarations that individuals found immediate relief from some of the things in this book. I am very happy for their results. I wasn't expecting immediate relief, but I was expecting more effective self-help techniques and less recommendations to go to more doctors and spend more money.

Everything I found in this book I have found numerous times on the internet for free. The self-help area did not work for me. The recommendations to go to different doctors was not what I wanted, as I've already spent $9K on the problem.

It's a well written, informative book if you've done no research on your own about TMJ dysfunction. However, I think you can find everything in this book pretty easily on the internet for free.

This book has some very harsh opinion sections regarding work of prior authors regarding 'whiplash' injury. Additionally, the first person tense is used in many of the chapters. These two factors leads one to question whether this is a scientifically sound publication, or the authors' opinion piece on 'whiplash'.

The lack of a well respected and well published co-author in the medical (M.D.) or engineering arena (PhD) also lends to some severe deficits. An engineer learns the fundamentals of engineering from engineering professors. A medical doctor learns the fundamentals of medicine from medical doctors. Since this book lacks either of these resources, an introductory section on biomechanics, written by a Doctor of Chiropractic, does not seem nearly as robust as it should, and it severely lacks technical competency. Many of the sections on medical diagnosis and treatment, including conclusions raised regarding cervical soft collars, would also be at odds with existing clinical knowledge of injury mechanisms and best treatment methods.

The authors repeatedly bring up examples of their own work and how it has been cited minimally or not cited at all in the greater scientific literature. There is probably a very good reason for this; attacking other authors' work repeatedly and systematically without acknowledging many of the positives in this other work causes many readers to discount the conclusions reached in this book. This is also likely the reason why this book, being six years old, appears to never have been taken off the shelves of the local major medical center library.

A better suggestion would be to review a collection of books, including this one and perhaps Dr. Narayan Yoganandan's 'Whiplash' book from 2000 or Nahum's 'Accidental Injury' from 2002, and let the reader draw their own conclusions of the scientific validity contained therein.

It is not often that you find authors who have so thoroughtly referenced a subject. It is written with a good command of the English language and is carefulle reasoned.

This book should finally lay to rest the myth that whiplash is somehow "not real", a notion that the insurance industry is most likely propagating.

This gem of a book is a must for all clinicians involved in the care and treatment of whiplash and its related disorders. It is also essential reading for all those insurance industry claims reps who are truly concerned about their insured injured persons, and not just their jobs!

If you are a physician who treats whiplash patients, or an attorney trying to understand the hows and whys, this book is the absolute BEST there is. 'Nuff Said.

Croft and Foreman are to be greatly commended on this work, the BEST in the field of whiplash traumatology. Apparently, there will be a 3rd edition coming soon.

The nonsense coming from Canada this year, including the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) Cassidy study (April 2000) and anything that Robert Ferrari has written, and is likely to write (Whiplash "Encyclopedia"), is an utter shame. The author of the recent NEJM study (Cassidy) has been accused of falsifying data (Emma Bartfay, PhD vs. Cassidy), and the views of QTF and Ferrari on chronic whiplash have been refuted over and over again.

Research in this field is of two types, with one out-weighing the other exponentially: insurance company-sponsored stuff such as Cassidy's, the "Quebec Task Force" or "QTF" study(1995), and much of the Ferrari literature IS VASTLY OUTWEIGHED by the other 95% of the university-based and engineering research that refutes it.

This book, especially in its new edition (pending), is and will be the definitive treatise on whiplash-related injuries. It is not written for the layperson, and covers complex medical topics. However, for physicians and health care professionals working with the whiplash-injured, it is indispensable.

When all the hubbub surrounding the latest weak studies from Canada subsides, Foreman and Croft's work will still be standing tall and unscathed. And that is because these two authors understand the difference between a strong study and a weak one. It is NOT true that you can use the research to prove anything. For example, the April 2000 NEJM study by Cassidy et al. states that when you remove the tort system, whiplash-injured persons miraculously heal faster. But upon closer inspection, it turns out that the authors of this study equate "recovery" with "return to work". They did not report on the physical exam findings of their research subjects at the time of claim closure (so-called "recovery"), so we do NOT really have an honest study.

With Ferrari, he is just so out in left field that one cannot imagine how he survives. The only answer must be that insurance company money is paying for his "research". Is it? Ferrari has been refuted over and over again by Croft and Michael Freeman, DC, PhD, MPH in the literature (see SPINE 1998 and 1999). Ferrari is actually on record as saying that chronic whiplash pain is from a psychological disturbance.

The 1995 QTF study is on record as saying that pain "is not harmful". These are doctors?

Of course, if you have had a brain injury and have been diagnosed with MTBI (mild traumatic brain injury), which is often permanent, there is psychological disturbance. But this is not what Ferrari argues. He basically believes that the millions and millions of chronic whiplash sufferers world-wide are all faking it.

Nikolai Bogduk, one of the top, if not the top, researchers in the world in the study of pain, has conclusively proved that whiplash injuries, even at VERY LOW SPEEDS (less than 5 mph) do damage the cervical zygapophyseal (facet capsules) or "z" joints of the neck, and that those injured in this way have chronic pain, and often full (actually too much) range of motion in their necks. The recent excellent crash tests by Ono, Kanno, Siegmund, Brault, Croft himself, and many, many others all confirm Bogduk's findings in a very conclusive way.

The fact that "researchers" like Cassidy, Ferrari, Russell, and now the NEJM never cite these authors, who are the most respected in the field, is certainly suspect.

I look forward to the next edition of this book, which should address all of the misinformation being propagated by the insurance industry and its representatives (do they fear an even larger class-action suit than big tobacco? You betcha!). Then we can all know the real science, well-written and more thoroughly referenced than any book on whiplash to date.

A Tour de Force! Is there going to be a Third Edition? Let us hope so, given Arthur Croft's ability to consume, digest and make palatable to us the most recent research on the topic of whiplash. Fortunately, Dr. Croft is still writing (see his articles in SPINE with co-author Dr. Michael Freeman), and still at the forefront of the profession. As a chiropractic physician, his contributions are all the more important in the medical world, which often borrows from alternative health without crediting it. Not so with Croft, who is credited in medical circles worldwide. A thoroughly readable, well-referenced and enjoyable textbook which will open your mind to a syndrome (group of injuries, really) so misunderstood.

Any physician without this text on his/her shelves should not be treating persons injured by whiplash.