TMJ Fracture - A Source of Chronic Neck and Back Pain

TMJ Fracture You're in prevent and go traffic on the freeway

. You're doing 40 mph, then see the brake lights ahead. You fall off down. Just as you come to a complete stop, you glance in your rear-view mirror. The body behind you is going too fast to inhibit in time. You hear the screech of brakes, and brace for the impact: You hear a loud crash of metal, and feel a surge of power push your put a halt on car forward. You feel your neck arc backwards and your torso sink to your seat. A instant later, the car stops, but the built- up fuel in your neck causes it to flex forward, then back once again want a whip, and finally, silence. You own just felt a cervical acceleration-deceleration injury, or whiplash.The amount of damage to the spine from a whiplash accident is determined by several variables.TMJ Fracture First of all, the mechanics of the crash: the velocity of the vehicles involved; their relative masses, the angle of impact, the position of the seat headrest, whether or not the seatbelt was worn, and the type of bumper. Secondly, the physical factors of the person injured: his or her height, the position of his neck at impact (turned, looking down?), the position of his arms; whether or not he was aware of the impending collision (did he brace before impact, or was he relaxed?), and obviously, his state of health at the time of the accident (history of neck problems?). A surprising finding in whiplash research is that oftentimes, the speed of the colliding car is not always directly proportional to the amount of injury sustained. One would think that, the faster the car was going, the stronger the whiplash force generated, and thus, the more injury. But that is not the case. One possible explanation has to do with energy absorption. You see, a car body will deform (dent) at a certain pounds per square inch force. When a car deforms from a collision, it absorbs some of the kinetic energy. If a car is subject to a force that is not sufficient to cause a deformation but strong enough to generate significant g-forces to the neck, then it's possible for a lower speed collision to cause more injury than a higher speed collision. Think about race cars: they are designed around this concept: upon colliding with another car or the racetrack wall, a race car will disintegrate (sections will fly off, rather than stay with the frame). If race cars were not designed to disintegrate upon collision, the drivers would sustain very serious injury as they would absorb most of the kinetic energy of the crash. TMJ Fracture Whiplash injuries result in soft tissue damage (sprains and strains of ligament, fascia, tendons, and muscles) and vertebral misalignments. The more serious variety can result in ligament rupture, nerve damage, vertebral fractures, ruptured discs, spinal cord injury, hematomas (blood pooling at the surface of the brain), concussion, and temporomandibular joint (TMJ) injury. Shortly after a typical low speed rear-ender car collision, the victim will first feel a sense of shock. The neck will typically not hurt immediately. As the injured soft tissues slowly release inflammatory products (swelling), the internal pressure in the neck joints and muscles increases. This will continue for several hours, eventually peaking at 72 hours post-accident. TMJ Fracture This is why your neck feels very stiff about 2-3 days after the accident. Victims also typically report fuzziness/ cloudiness in thinking, and fatigue. This is probably due to the stress to the nervous system-- brain, nerves-- from the forces of the accident. Stop suffering from TMJ anymore. Get your TMJ Fracture ebook and live your life again!

TMJ Fracture - A Source of Chronic Neck and Back Pain

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