Yikes - what was I thinking about when I typed that post. Oh the numerous typos. I must have typed it on my phone. My auto correct hates me. Thanks for the responses.

I am happy with the doctor. She does concussion protocol with college athletes and seems well researched. If she was stumped she would send him out to another specialist. Right now she is just doing the protocol. We talked imaging at his last appointment about a month ago because she was out of town when my husband had a setback and ended up at the er and there was talk from the other doctors in her office of him getting some imaging done. She feels, and I agree from what I have read here, that mri's and ct scans aren't really useful for recovery. We did discuss spect scans and functional mri's as possibilities if his symptoms keep coming back.

He does have whiplash and he was doing well but, after the train ride, he has had more localized continuous pain in his neck to the point where he is interested in finding out what is going on in there. He does have soft tissue pain and he has exercises and gets ultrasound for that.

For the neck, I think he would be hoping to just know that going to the chiropractor is the right thing and whether or not there is some injury to his neck that he needs to be addressing some other way. He has been at the chiropractor regularly since the accident. I have permanent issues from an accident so I got him there right away. It is also part of the reason I have just been so careful and proactive about researching and asking questions about everything. I didn't know what I needed after my accident and will live with the orthopedic issues for the the rest of my life because of it.

As for the head imaging, I just didn't know if there is any reason, if he gets a neck mri, that he should also get a head mri at the same time. I'm not one for unnecessary imaging. If the doctor starts talking imaging, I didn't know if anyone here had any experience or thoughts on if there is any reason to have it done and if anyone has had a spect scan or functional mri. Is there a theraputic reason to have one done?

We would likely have to go out of town to get those done. I wouldn't mind, if there is anyone here with a positive experience, a suggestion on a location for a scan. We live in central Illinois so we could easily go to Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Madison or anywhere in between. We also have family in DC and Portland.

Thanks again for the input. So glad I found this forum, reading through it has answered a lot of questions a long the way.