Whiplash Internal Carotid Artery Occlusion and Hemiplegia

When an apparently normal healthy individual, engaged in a business, trade or profession, within a week following an automobile collision in which his neck experienced the hypermotility and torsional force known as "whiplash," suffers a "stroke" and is left permanently hemiplegic, it would be naive to suppose that those affected by such an affliction would meekly ascribe it all to pure coincidence, and not concentrate their fullest attention on the possible connection between the two events.