Description: This course covers how to determine the mechanism of injury based on the patient’s history,examination findings, and X-ray findings. It covers the forces that occur during a typical “whiplash” injury,how these forces deform tissues, and how to detect those deformities using radiographic findings.
Objective: To teach the practitioner how to explain the relationship between subluxation, ligamentinstability, and trauma based on the mechanism of injury, physical examination, X-ray findings, andpatient history.