im Elliott, PhD, PT, remembers thinking to himself that he must be missing something. As a physical therapist working in the late 1990’s, he would see whiplash patients with chronic pain-related disability following a motor vehicle collision (MVC) on a daily basis, yet he couldn’t find any good data on likely indicators for full recovery versus long-term chronic pain. Whiplash is one of the most common head and neck injuries, often a result of rear-impact MVC. Elliott was fascinated by the seemingly random recovery rate experienced by whiplash patients. While some patients would recover quickly, others were faced with long-term pain-related disability – lasting months or even years. “There was often a med-legal case and yet we had very little, if any, objective data or ins

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