Lower Limb Injuries : The driver's legs, being near the point of impact, might get pinned or crushed between the door and the car's center console, or impacted by the lower dashboard, leading to fractures or other traumaƟc injuries.
Passenger Seat (Front): Whiplash: The sharp, angled force can result in the front-seat passenger experiencing whiplash as the neck gets jerked forward and to the side. It's really important here to understand that there is a thing that happens to our ligaments in these types of hyperflexion and hyperextension injuries, and it's called ligament laxity. And what that means is that the ligament is stretched out of its normal shape, and it never ever ever goes back to its regular shape. When this happens to us in a whiplash type injury, the ligament can no longer hold our head up like it should. As a result of that our muscles take over and try to hold the head up where the ligaments would do it before because that is taxing to our muscles. That's why we get aching
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