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1st International Conference on Cervicogenic Headache and Whiplash - Wednesday, June 2, 2004 kl 13:45

1st International Conference on Cervicogenic Headache and Whiplash

The meaning of WAD - Whiplash Associated Disorders - is about to penetrate into the medical profession. "Whiplash" used as a diagnosis rather than a mechanism of injury which it is, has resulted in a meaningless search for a uniform treatment for the whiplash patients. This misconception has also made whiplash injury the most expensive of all neck injuries for the society.

Cervicogenic headache (CEH) - is a headache originating from the neck and hence a frequent WAD. It is important to diagnose this headache because its origin is a major target for treatment. The clinical picture has been described in by the Cervicogenic Headache International Study Group (CHISG) and the CHISG criteria of 1991 and 1998 have so far been used for research. The International Headache Society (IHS) has included CEH in their new criteria. The IHS criteria for CEH can only be used when there is a positive finding in the neck and where there is a successful treatment that removes the headache. In post whiplash CEH there is seldom positive findings and there is no consensus on treatment. This means that the CHISG criteria of 1998 will still be used and whenever possible the IHS criteria shall be used as well.

This conference aims at giving a firm theoretical background for making the diagnosis of CEH in whiplash patients and tools of how to handle it both in the acute and chronic phase. Teaching courses will emphasise practical techniques of diagnosis and treatment. International capacities have been chosen to elaborate on how far we have reached in understanding and which tests and which treatments that have scientific validity. We are dealing with a group of patients which is often subject to non-professional expensive healers with harmful treatments. To improve the quality of life of the patient is an important aim for this conference.

The conference is primarily directed towards the medical profession. Because medical updated knowledge is the basis for decisions made by lawyers and insurance companies, we invite members of these professions as well as anyone working with whiplash patients and who are interested in updated knowledge in this field to participate.

Welcome to Oslo!!

On behalf of the scientific committee,

Monica Drottning

Kommentar av BURT från Sverige den Friday, December 2, 2005 kl 13:44 - IP Logged

hej monika egentligen heter jag stuart a short history from me 20 years ago i was in volved in a singel mc accident but then i didnt now what wad was i have been under different doktors and phykiatrists because i thought my problem was drinking but so late as 2004 was diagnosed whiplash to what grade i dont know but all things point to between3 and 4 grade but since my diagnos it seems to be full stop in sweden hope that i could come to norway some a type of study figure for the norwegian govern