Hello everybody.

During the last 1˝ year i have experienced several relapses/setbacks/new injuries from my whiplash injury in january 2014.

It seems that my head/neck can tolerate less as time goes on. 2 days ago I “hit” my head on my couch. I was laughing and nodded my head backwards. There wasn’t any pillow so I hit the edge of the couch, but it is made of hard foam, so the material yielded a little, and it didn’t hurt at all.

It was the kind of “hit” that I would never ever have thought about 1˝ years ago. But since then my health is just getting worse. My upper back, neck and head is completely tighting and stiff and it doesn’t feel right.

I am having tensions in weird places like my nose bridge and around my eyes. I am getting headache if I read, watch televison or talks to much with my colleagues.

I refuse to think this is a new concussion (or do you dissagre?), because of the slow acceleration, the material I hit, it didn’t hurt etc, but what is it then?

I don’t think it is a mental reaction, because I didn’t think much of it and still doesn’t.

Weird sentisization? Well perhaps, but normally it gets better (days, weeks or months) and if my brain was broken, I would think it was a permanent problem.

Brain inflammation? Well, I don’t know a lot about this, but it would have to be controlled mentally, because the impact force was very small – 2 month ago I was fooling in my car and tightened my neck muscles and pulled my head back into the headrest, and nothing happened then (I hadn’t tightened my muscles when I hit the couch).

So I tend to think that it must be a startle response or a upper neck injury. But I am wondering – how long do you experience that a startle response last? Several weeks?

It could also be a upper neck injury – my original accident was a whiplash. And in my “normal” pcs state I can not run – it hurts in my head. I have also problems tolerating bumps on the road, landing on my heels etc. But if it is a neck injury – how do I heal it – what do you do, if you have similar problems? Neck exercise, swimming, medication or? And is it best to stay active to mobilize the neck or to rest? And why does my neck tolerate less and less as times go?

Thanks for reading - any comments will be appreaciated.