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Table 2 The extra review of 100 consecutive patient records with the diagnosis ‘cervical column distortion’ (S134) revealed the following injury-mechanism distribution

From: Whiplash(-like) injury diagnoses and co-morbidities – both before and after the injury: A national registry-based study

Injury mechanism

n = (%)

Whiplash - from behind:

46

                    - from the front:

24

                    - no direction indicated

12

Whiplash-like neck mechanism sustained through a direct head trauma

16

Evidently incorrect diagnosis

2