Risk Factors
Risk factors for whiplash include:
- Age: young adults
- Sex: male
- Ankylosing spondylitis (a rheumatic disease that can effect the spine)
Risk factors for poor outcome or longer recovery include being:
- An older woman
- In a truck
- A passenger
- Hit by a moving object
- Hit head-on or perpendicular
- Involved in litigation
- Affected with severe pain or radicular symptoms
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