When can whiplash show up after an accident?

Immediately to : Several days later. This is a soft tissue injury to the neck. It is primarily muscular in nature. Sometimes, neck pain can originate from a more severe degree even several weeks later when a disc can be injured initially, and then herniates over a subsequent period of time someimes just beginning as a stiffness after an accident.

Yes: Often the pain and symptoms of whiplash can appear immediately or take hours, days, weeks or even months to manifest. The symptoms are many and often depend on the type of whiplash (flexion/extension, ) and how you might of suffered the whiplash- sports, car accident-hit from front/side/rear/passenger/driver.) tmj/tmd is a major symptom of whiplash as the jaw can be thrust open from the accident.