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In order to visualize what happens to your head in a collision, you just need to think about a ball which is placed on top of a spring. If you're involved in a rear end collision your torso will be propelled forward because of the impact, while your head will tend to lag behind due to inertia. In such instances the head often reaches what is known as 'hyper-extension' before being jerked forward by the rest of the body. In the vast majority of cases where this occurs people will sustain neck injuries. The most common neck injury sustained because of a collision is called whiplash, or in medical terms, cervical hyperextension.

In order to visualize what happens to your head in a collision, you just need to think about a ball which is placed on top of a spring. If you're involved in a rear end collision your torso will be propelled forward because of the impact, while your head will tend to lag behind due to inertia. In such instances the head often reaches what is known as 'hyper-extension' before being jerked forward by the rest of the body. In the vast majority of cases where this occurs people will sustain neck injuries. The most common neck injury sustained because of a collision is called whiplash, or in medical terms, cervical hyperextension.

A person with an exercise- or sports-related injury has many questions: When can I start exercising? When can I get back to my sport? What can I do to prevent this from happening again? The answers to these questions are relatively straightforward. But for some, injuries continue to happen. Which leads to the key question: Why did this happen to me?