The question is how do you know if it’s just going to go away on its own or you should seek medical attention? We would posit that you don’t know and so you should seek medical attention following a car accident, unless you have no pain at all. Because it’s hard to really tell whether you have muscle pain, nerve pain, fractures, unless you’re an experienced doctor. Also we should probably talk about what happens in in a car accident and what is a whiplash injury.
You’re buckled up driving in your car and car accident happens. Either you hit something or another car or you’re rear ended or struck by another car. What happens to your body, is you’re jolted forward and then you’re jolted backwards. Your neck sustains this kind of fast action trauma. Some of the things that could happen, you may sustain a ligament damage, you could sustain muscle tissue damage and if it’s very severe and very traumatic you may also herniate a disk. Worst case scenario we’ve seen fractures auto accidents especially the highway accidents.