How to calculate a whiplash claim

What is a whiplash injury?

Whiplash is a word used to describe the type of injury that can be caused when your neck is stretched or strained by your head moving backwards and forwards quickly whilst your body is restrained by a seatbelt.

Often, the worse the collision, the more severe the whiplash injury, and the younger you are, the quicker you will get better, but each injury is different. Some people find it very difficult to get back to the way they were after a whiplash injury, and suffer on and off for years. Others make a full recovery much faster than they may have expected. Expert medical evidence can be unbelievably helpful in a whiplash claim. Your specialist solicitor will probably regard it as imperative if the pain lasts for any length of time. It is better to be sure about your whiplash injury recovery rather than just settling your whiplash case quickly in the hope that you will recover.

Whiplash Injury Symptoms and Recovery

The neck is surrounded by delicate tissue. If it is jerked or twisted hard as a result of the force from a vehicle impact then damage can be caused to those tissues and a neck injury can take place. As many of these whiplash injuries are suffered by vehicle passengers, and also by car drivers when there is a rear end shunt from another vehicle, whiplash claims are frequently made following car accidents.

Here's a list of the most common whiplash symptoms:

• Headache
• Neck pain
• Dizziness
• Shoulder pain
• Jaw pain
• Arm pain

A whiplash injury may not be apparent until a little time after an accident. For some accident victims that suffer a whiplash injury, recovery can be a very slow and painful process. The pain can come and go for days, weeks, months or even years, depending on the seriousness of the whiplash injury and the person who is suffering it. It is not easy to predict in the early stages how long recovery may take. As the whiplash claim is dependent on the pain and suffering, and other losses arising from the accident, it is usually sensible to wait for the recovery to be completed, or at least the whiplash injury to be stable before the value of the whiplash claim is assessed for the final settlement. Contact us for free on 0800 011 2172 when you are ready to make your whiplash claims.