Why after whiplash are you still having tingling in fingers and forearm lacks reflex?

Answer 1

When you are in a whiplash causing accident, your head gets launched in at least two directions.

Your muscles grab on as hard as they can to slow the movement and to protect you from damage.

Also, your nervous system gets freaked out at such a dangerous jolt, so it sets itself to an extremely high, watchful tone, or tensity. Think about it like your nervous system is frightened and anxious.

Symptoms of tingling in the fingers and lack of reflex in the forearm points to a couple different things.

If it were just tingling and/or numbness in the fingers, the culprit would very likely be tight Scalene muscles. These are muscles at the front of your neck that compress the nerve pathway down to your arm and hand when they get tight.

The Scalenes can get dangerously tight after a whiplash causing injury and compress the nerve for long periods of time.

If your forearm lacks 'a little' reflex, then it's likely that the accident caused severe damage and tightness and you have a major compression of the nerve (caused by tight muscles clamping down on the nerve.)

If you have a major lack of reflex, then either the nerve is seriously clamped down on, or there is something more serious happening, like a cervical (bone) misalignment that is compressing the nerve.

The finger tingling requires relaxation of the muscles.

The loss of reflex in the forearm requires serious concern and a trip to the doctor to rule out significant, more-than-just-whiplash damage.

For an article that goes deeper into the Whiplash dynamic, visit http://www.TendonitisExpert.com/whiplash-neck-injury.html Hyperlinked in 'related links' below.