most people unlucky enough to suffer with a neck injury will have suffered only a minor neck strain and although painful for the first few days or weeks, the discomfort will reduce fairly quickly. Most people are fully recovered from a neck injury within a month of their car accident and do not have to undergo any treatment or medication other than painkillers.

Some people are more unlucky they may have been a car going at high speed car accident and have The most severe types of neck injury involve damage to the discs and vertebrae in the neck, which usually allow the neck to move and protect the spinal cord. This can be life threatening and mean your life will be changed forever.

If you have not recovered from your injury in six months and at this time is not pain free it is probable that you will endure lifelong problems.

How you were sitting in which direction you were looking pre existing neck problems can all factor in how badly you are injured.

It is unlikely that several people in the same accident will all suffer exactly the same kind of whip lash injury

Most people with whip lash will spend about three months before they feel completely healed, but again everyone is different. Some people have arm pain early on and this is normally a sign that nerves have been damaged and this may make recovery more painful and slower than hoped.

The traditional treatment for a neck injury is that of wearing a soft collar and getting some rest. This works for most people they work very well to reduce severe pain in the first few days after their neck injury. Headaches and lower back pain is not normally helped by the wearing of a soft collar.

In Around 10% of people who have had a neck type injury suffer from problems with memory, concentration, sleep loss, depression, irritability, tinnitus and/or blurry vision. It is thought that a lot of this is decided to be the side effects of pain control medicine.

It is also thought that a number of people will suffer depression after a whip lash injury and that irritability and anxiety are also symptoms of whip lash medical opinion is undecided on this and on the late onset of whip lash injuries it has been blamed in the past on people trying it on to make compensation claims