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Whiplash

Dennis D. Patton dpatton at azstarnet.com
Thu May 9 21:20:26 EST 1996


In article <4mqtk2$mob at news.xs4all.nl> barkeep at xs4all.nl writes:
>From: barkeep at xs4all.nl
>Subject: Whiplash
>Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 04:45:28 GMT

>I wish to post the following article:

>A friend of mine has suffered a whiplash a couple of years ago. {snip}
>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?
>Thanks in advance for any help,
>Wolf
>--
>Home http://www.xs4all.nl/~barkeep

Wolf - my 2 cents - assuming your friend's symptoms are not caused by 
medication (look at that carefully), start with the _worst_ thing it could
be, which would be vertebral-basilar artery insufficiency, possibly related 
to the original whiplash or possibly to the physical therapy or both. This is
a _potentially_ serious condition and there are several ways to look for it. 
Your friend's own physician is probably the best source of advice on where to 
start, or whether even to worry about it in her case - I am responding to
your posting because as a nuclear medicine physician I have done diagnostic 
studies on several patients with VBAI and this may be worth considering since 
it can be serious. Early diagnosis does make a big difference. In any case 
this is merely a suggestion to be passed along as you see fit - Good luck

Dennis D. Patton MD
Division of Nuclear Medicine
University Medical Center
Tucson, Arizona 85724 USA



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