Clinicians treating people who have received soft tissue injuries from motor vehicle accidents know that these patients often face Clinicians treating people who have received soft tissue injuries from motor vehicle accidents know that these patients often face discrimination based upon lack of information, misunderstanding, and misdiagnosis. Let's explore several myths that surround the diagnosis and treatment of soft tissue injuries resulting from motor vehicle accidents. There is a correlation between the cost of repairing an automobile involved in an accident and injuries received. There is no direct correlation between the cost of automobile repair and injuries received.
Accidents involving little automobile damage often result in serious injury or death.
Conversely, numerous accident victims escape injury completely, despite the massive damages incurred by the corresponding vehicles. Injury tolerance levels are mistakenly regarded as threshold whereby the severity of an individual's injury and pain is determined. It is not possible to accurately predict who will and will not be injured at any given impact. All tissues in the human body are capable of being injured indirectly. Brain concussions are an additional example of this occurrence.