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Message: [QUOTE="Doctor Hoop, post: 4421484, member: 6845"] Thanks, I will. I'll add just a bit to what you've written, but it's pretty much "dead on balls accurate" (It's an industry term);) Whiplash is much more likely when the head is unsupported in the direction of motion. Which is why they have headrests in cars. If you get hit from behind with no headrest, your car lurches forward while your head stays in the same place. Relative to the movement of the car, the head moves backwards. A headrest braces that backward motion, limiting it. So a fall to the floor hitting your head also stops head/neck motion, but not in a good way. After something like that you're much more likely to have a headache, but minimal neck pain. True whiplash yields paraspinal muscle spasm, neck stiffness, and can injure discs and facet joints. A headache, if you have one with whiplash, is more likely due to muscle tension/spasm. A couple of other concussion facts. Once you've had several concussions it generally is easier for you to get another concussion with less trauma, and often each recovery takes longer. Given all of this, with this fall and with his head hitting the floor I'd be more concerned with concussion than whiplash. According to what I've seen in this thread the medical staff is on it, and not overly concerned. They know what they're doing, let them do it. And let him recover in his own time. [/QUOTE]