Myths of whiplash

When the concept of whiplash was first introduced by Harold Crowe in 1928 at a conference, and when it first appeared in a medical publication in 1945, it was not based on scientific evidence. That is, like many great stories, the whiplash theme sprang mainly from mythology, where many explanations had to be created to fill in the gaps in our understanding. Since those early days, and mainly in the last ten years, more research has been carried out to unravel these myths than had been performed to define chronic whiplash in the first place. This limited review considers a few of the aforementioned myths of whiplash, and how scientific efforts have enlightened us on these matters.