Whiplash often causes nerve entrapment by the soft tissues. The nervous system initiates tightening of the muscles to stop bleeding in the tissues caused by violent snapping of the neck backward and forward. This tightening results in muscular spasm. A fter bleeding stops, the spastic response, initially a curative one, will continue if intervention is not made. This muscular spasm causes pressure on nerves and creates its own painful condition.
Nerve entrapment is the most common type of pain and always causes ischemia.
Ignored, it can produce associated trigger points. Postural distortion is an imbalance of the muscular systems resulting from movement of the body off the coronal, midsagittal and horizontal planes. If there is an imbalance in the structural system, gravity causes the body to compensate in an effort to retain balance. Trauma, gravitational pressure or psychological patterning causes the soft tissues to assume a weight-bea ring function and thus become thicker, denser, and harder. Muscle contraction, body distortion and pain are the results of compensations the body makes in order to maintain structural homeostasis.