Studies show that injuries add up. In other words, that fall you had as a child, plus the whiplash injury last year add up to accumulated damage to your body. This results in you feeling "older."

Car accidents are notorious for causing long-term pain and disabilities. Even a 10-mile-an-hour accident can cause a lot of damage. Studies show that your head can whip back and forth at a rate of 100.000 degrees per second in a 10-mile-per-hour accident.

Whiplash can cause more than just pain. While pain is one of the common results of whiplash-type accidents, there is more often than not more damage than meets the eye. Often I see patients experience other symptoms that they do not relate to the accident.

Here's a partial list of symptoms that can relate to an accident:

• Headaches, sinus pains
• Trouble sleeping, loss of sleep
• Stomach Problems
• Dizziness, forgetfullness
• Loss of memory
• Fatigue, tiredness, low energy
• Irritability, personality changes
• Increased marital problems
• Neck, back and arm pain
• Numbness, tingling and weakness of the arms or legs

The real problem is how these symptoms can change a person's life. Anything can be affected, from relationships to work or success in life.