New Add On Head Rest May Save Your Neck - Prevent Whiplash

1 September 1999

New Add On Head Rest May Save Your Neck - Prevent Whiplash

    CHARLOTTE, N.C.--Aug. 31, 1999--Most car seat head restraints are too low and too far back to be effective, experts say.
    Now there's a product - the Add On Head Rest - designed to help protect you against the most common injury in a car accident, whiplash. The energy-absorbing cervical cushion fills the space between you and your car seat making driving safer and more comfortable.
    Although head restraints have been mandatory in cars since 1969 and trucks since 1991, it's their design and effectiveness that's questionable. Government reports show that adjustable and high back type head restraints were 10 percent and 17 percent effective, respectively, for reducing neck injuries. But the insurance industry has found most head restraints lacking with less than 3 percent receiving a 'good' rating by a research safety group. That leaves a lot of room for improvement.
    "We know how a head restraint should be designed to maximize our safety," notes Dave Braendel, president of Wedge Support Products, manufacturer of the Add On Head Rest. "New technology is trickling into the market in cars like Volvo and Saab, but what about the other 200 million registered cars already on U.S. roads?"
    Crash tests by Texas A&M documented the remarkable effectiveness of this ergonomic auto cushion in comparative tests at the joint conference for accident reconstructionists in New Jersey. The Add On Head Rest was noted to reduce two primary forces responsible for causing whiplash injury by a whopping 38 percent and 73 percent.
    "The Add On Head Rest appears to be a significant improvement over factory head restraints," says Dr. Daniel J. Murphy DC, one of the country's leading authorities on whiplash injuries.
    Whiplash affects more than one million people in the United States every year with 38 percent reporting daily or constant headache and neck pain after six months and 10 percent suffering long term chronic symptoms lasting over five years. More seriously, it can cause permanent brain injury or death. Improved head restraint design can reduce the staggering economic and human costs associated with this serious neck injury.
    Recommended by respected physicians and whiplash injury experts, the headrest fits most cars. It comes in gray or tan and costs $24.95. It is available through catalogs like AAA, J.C. Whitney, and Improvements.
    For more information call 888-800-7117 or visit http://www.addonheadrest.com/ .

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