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Whiplash

Tom Boismier boismier at umich.edu
Thu May 9 06:48:20 EST 1996


In article <4mqtk2$mob at news.xs4all.nl>, barkeep at xs4all.nl says...

>Just recently however she has started to feel disorientated, to drop
>things, look crosseyed, having difficulty to concentrate and when she
>looks at a computerscreen for a while for example it starts to move
>'like a boat'. Can anybody tell us what is going on? Does anybody have
>experience with this therapy?

These are common complaints of people with vertigo. This may be a delayed 
result of the incident which caused the whiplash (such as a post-concussive 
syndrome), or could be due to a completely different cause. Vertigo is not 
a diagnosis per se, but a symptom (the hallucination of circularvection), 
which can have many causes. The most common cause is inner ear dysfunction. 
The best place to start would be consultation with a neurotologist (an 
ear-nose-throat surgeon with cross-training in neurology) who specializes in 
vertigo.




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