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Can a rearend car accident cause cervical spinal stenosis and hyperextention of the neck?
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No and yes: Spinal stenosis does not occur after an accident unless it is the aquired type due to a disc herniation, spine fracture or traumatic spinal instability or bleeding associated with it. Stenosis is developed due to degenerative changes and occasionally due to a small canal you were born with. Whiplash is a flexion/extension injury. With a stenotic canal, this force could injure the cord.
Answered 7/3/2019
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yes : If the force of your motor vehicle accident was sufficient to displace an intervertebral disc in your cervical spine, this may cause stenosis.
Answered 9/9/2017
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