Educational videos can help whiplash recovery

An article in Spine journal (July 2006) shows that a psycho-educational video released in the USA could help speed up the whiplash recovery process.

Over a two-year period, around 130 patients who were admitted to emergency departments across the country and diagnosed with a cervical strain were invited to watch a 12-minute video about chronic pain.

After one month, whiplash sufferers who had watched the video reported dramatically lower pain levels than those who had not. The comparison between the two groups was similar at three and six months.

Ali Oliveira from the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego and one of the group of researchers conducting the study, said: "Chronic pain following a whiplash injury is one example of the massive medical/legal problem of chronic muscular pain..approaches using local pain sources (trigger points) have shown promise as treatment models for this type of pain."

The video group (as opposed to the group that did not watch the video) used 85 % less narcotic medication, had 85 % fewer check-ups following the injury and 100 % fewer surgical consultations. They also viewed their overall pain level following whiplash as being 70 % lower than the control group.

Spine can be found online at www.spinejournal.com. Recognised internationally as the leading journal in its field worldwide, it is packed with information about, and has useful analysis of, spinal disorders.

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