Why is Whiplash Hard to Treat?

Whiplash injury is not just a sprain/strain -- even with seemingly mild initial forces, a person can have many months of pain and dysregulation to perceptual, cognitive, and autonomic systems.
Is there a clue in this complexity? A way we can approach whiplash treatment that targets its core dynamics? Here's my first video in prep for next Saturday's launch of my online course for Whiplash Treatment. (Details: bit.ly/3yPXXVT)
The theme of this video is restoration ecology -- focusing your attention and effort on feedback loops, scaled experiments, and collaborating with the system in real-world context.
We need to understand how the initial injuries of whiplash give rise to self-perpetuating dysregulations to the immune and nervous systems. If we can arrest these feedback loops, we may have a chance at accelerating a person's recovery. (If we can't affect the feedback loops, our short-term fixes will dissolve and no progress will be made.)
Please me know what you think of this video! And stay tuned for the next one. I'm excited to prep for this class, and I hope some of my manual therapist friends can make it.
Details on the class:
3 CE's, $60, and accessible forever. (Or as long as email/youtube exist)
Neurofascial Approach to Whiplash Treatment
Saturday Sept 10th, 11:00 AM-1:00PM Pacific
Click here for description and to register: bit.ly/3yPXXVT
$60: online only (3 CEs) Join live/ view recording on your own
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REFERENCES:
• Sensory hypersensitivity occurs soon after whiplash injury and is associated with poor recovery
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12927...
• High-Resolution 3 T MR Neurography of the Brachial Plexus and Its Branches , with Emphasis on 3 D Imaging www.ajnr.org/.../early/2012/09...
• Consensus practice guidelines on interventions for cervical spine (facet) joint pain from a multispecialty international working group pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34764...
• How can animal models inform on the transition to chronic symptoms in whiplash? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22020...

[@staceypollack808]

Finally!!! One human being on this planet who gets it!!!! 45 therapists, 35 doctors not one who understands this! I’m going hunting for your course.

[@staceypollack808]

Another very important part of this is getting to a point where you realize no matter how bad it is your body isn’t working against you it’s working to protect you and what the mind is repeating

[@SparkingLife111]

This man gets it !!! Everything I complained about I had no idea this was related to whiplash I got a concussion so that's what I attributed everything to besides my stiff neck and difficulty lifting my arms at times because my shoulders will feel weak and the intense pain that I will feel in my neck into in between my shoulder blades I've been suffering for 7 years since my injury I feel like there's just something missing I do hate therapy light therapy but it's not better yet cold packs to go to sleep

[@Moonlightthroughdarkness]

Tip: craniosacral therapy and block therapy (latter one you can find for free on YT)

[@imiren3]

Incredible. So spot on.

[@fizjomind]

Thank you.

[@trynalearn]

Hi Michael,
I’m checking your online courses to see if you have any pre-recorded webinars, however I’m not able to access any.
Do you sell pre-recorded material?

[@lisasophia775]

I cannot believe my ears! I have such difficulty communicating and getting the quality of treatment and recognition of the severity of symptoms... I've had multiple repeated whiplash incidents and FINALLY someone with perceptive knowledge intricately and accurately is drawing attention with understanding to this plaguing condition. I practiced massage but was forced to retire. What is your opinion on eurowave shockwave for treatment? I have degeneration. Thank you! Sharing.......

[@dmoussa5378]

Is there a way to access the class somehow? Its not allowing me to sign up

[@andresavelar8352]

Can it be because the ligaments are loose causing instability like cci or aai or just cervical instability in journey.. bones hitting nerves and arteries and brain stem and etc

[@TarikRom-hu3jj]

How do u feel now

[@Thevwmethod]

25 years on I have very high BP and get AD and more. Muscle relaxants will drop my BP I think the injury is RVLM .. but in the UK and may as well be talking Chinese to my GP ... yep.. I get liver. Kidney. Adrenal problems in for a kidney mri they will not find any thing !!probably as the C1 is dumping epinephrine to boot..

[@staceypollack808]

I have the exact same problem epinephrine was high on tests along side this problem which they didn’t associate it with

[@staceypollack808]

Please help me. Where are you located?

[@staceypollack6526]

How do you treat this ???

[@Mikenmishler]

Can whiplash cause a concussion, and can a concussion/whiplash cause a significant change in a person’s personality/behavior?

[@katalystcruz8864]

Yea. Common problems are concusion.

[@lucretiavarsenburg6031]

Please help me..i am sufferi ng from it 7 years

[@terrigoerndt5231]

Ditto 😢

[@terrigoerndt5231]

Are u on ssdi??

[@lucretiavarsenburg6031]

No..what does that means

[@staceypollack6526]

5 years here I want to die

[@saraalsai]

How do you treat it

[@terrigoerndt5231]

F

[@decimustv4257]

Why don’t you list everything possibly imaginable that can go wrong with the body.

[@staceypollack6526]

5 years down the line. The body is supposed to heal nope

[@GGletgo1]

Can you tell us more about the accident that caused the injury and what problems you are still facing?