One of the problems with whiplash diagnosis for many years was the lack of objective evidence of injury. Recent studies, however, have given us new tools that we can use to pinpoint organic lesions in many patients.

Now, two new studies show that neck muscles show objective, anatomical changes after whiplash injury.

The first study set out to see if there were detectable changes in the neck muscles of whiplash patients. Previous studies have shown that patients with spinal pain also show fatty infiltration of the muscles on MRI. The authors of this study studied 79 female whiplash patients and 34 healthy control subjects, all between the ages of 18-45. Each subject had a neck MRI focused on the cervical spine muscles.

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