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Your doctor used that phrase, grade 2, and you wrote it down or you remembered it and now you are here trying to understand what it actually means. Because a grade implies a scale, and a scale implies that some whiplash is more serious than other whiplash, and you are trying to figure out where […]

Something has changed since the accident and it is not just the physical pain. You are not yourself. Maybe you already knew that before you started searching, or maybe you’re only now putting language to something that has been building for weeks. You might be sleeping too much or not at all. Things you used […]

You felt okay after the accident. Maybe sore, maybe shaken, but not seriously hurt. You went home, you slept, you told yourself it was not that bad. And then something changed. It might have been the next morning when you could not get out of bed without holding onto the nightstand. It might have been […]

You feel worse than you expected to, or you feel fine but something in the back of your mind is telling you to pay attention. Maybe you took a hard hit to the abdomen, or your chest struck the steering wheel, or you were thrown against the door and the impact was more significant than […]

The accident did not seem like much. The other car was not going fast. There was not a lot of damage. Everyone walked away. And now, weeks or months later, you have an MRI showing a herniated disc and a doctor using words like nerve root compression and possible surgical intervention, and somewhere in the […]

You went to the doctor, or the emergency room, or urgent care, and they examined you and ran some tests and possibly told you everything looks normal. But your neck hurts, your head aches, you feel off in ways you’re struggling to describe, and normal doesn’t match your experience at all. Or maybe you haven’t […]

Someone used this phrase to describe what happened to you, a doctor, an adjuster, maybe your own attorney, and now you are trying to figure out what it actually means. Because from the inside, soft tissue injury does not feel like a category. It feels like pain that woke you up at three in the […]

Something feels wrong with your leg, or your calf, or your chest, and you’re trying to figure out whether what happened in the accident could be responsible. Maybe you’ve been less mobile since you were injured. Maybe one leg is swollen or warm in a way the other isn’t. Maybe you’re short of breath in […]

You expected it to be better by now. The first few days made sense, everything hurt, your body had just been through something, you told yourself it would pass. But it has been two weeks, or three, or five, and the neck pain is still there, maybe different than it was at first, maybe moving […]

Your imaging came back and it says bulging disc, or herniated disc, or maybe both at different levels, and now you’re trying to figure out what those words actually mean for your body and for your claim. These two terms get used interchangeably in casual conversation and even sometimes in medical offices in ways that […]