Since I was rear-ended in the car accident the other day, I started suffering from a whiplash 5 days after the incident. I have gone seen a doctor and got the diagnosis of sprain of neck and back. It's very common that Japanese people go to a chiropractor or acupuncturist for treatment when they have whiplash. However, my MD told me to just take IBU profen and muscle relaxant. That's it. According to the western medicine, whiplash is just a sprain of muscles, so time will heal whatever is causing the pain. My pain worsened over several days after it started, so I was a sort of in doubt, but took the muscle relaxant prescribed anyway. Wow, it worked. I would say 70% of the pain has now gone. It sounds very American that you heal whiplash with medications. In Japan, taking medication is probably the last thing you think of when you have whiplash. The only thing I don't like about this medicine is that it makes you drowsy. I don't need another accident to deal with, so should be careful when to use it...
11/30/2009
Muscle Relaxer
Since I was rear-ended in the car accident the other day, I started suffering from a whiplash 5 days after the incident. I have gone seen a doctor and got the diagnosis of sprain of neck and back. It's very common that Japanese people go to a chiropractor or acupuncturist for treatment when they have whiplash. However, my MD told me to just take IBU profen and muscle relaxant. That's it. According to the western medicine, whiplash is just a sprain of muscles, so time will heal whatever is causing the pain. My pain worsened over several days after it started, so I was a sort of in doubt, but took the muscle relaxant prescribed anyway. Wow, it worked. I would say 70% of the pain has now gone. It sounds very American that you heal whiplash with medications. In Japan, taking medication is probably the last thing you think of when you have whiplash. The only thing I don't like about this medicine is that it makes you drowsy. I don't need another accident to deal with, so should be careful when to use it...