Spinal Injuries : The direct lateral force could lead to spinal injuries. The direct lateral force can result in serious injuries to the spine, including potenƟal disc herniaƟons, vertebral fractures, or other spinal trauma.
Rear Driver's Side & Rear Passenger's Side: Whiplash: Due to the jarring lateral force. 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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