TY - JOUR T1 - Whiplash: Nothing to Lose Sleep Over JF - The Journal of Rheumatology JO - J Rheumatol SP - 655 LP - 655 DO - 10.3899/jrheum.110970 VL - 39 IS - 3 AU - ROBERT FERRARI AU - ANTHONY SCIENCE RUSSELL Y1 - 2012/03/01 UR - http://www.jrheum.org/content/39/3/655.abstract N2 - To the Editor:Although Radanov, et al1 have recently suggested that sleep disturbance may be an important problem in chronic whiplash, we would argue that the etiology of chronic whiplash is nothing to lose sleep over, since we are coming to understand the individual factors that determine who develops chronic pain and who does not2. Radanov, et al have confirmed what has long been known: that the symptoms and/or pattern of symptoms of chronic whiplash are in fact not distinct. Indeed, it was shown as much as a decade ago that there is no distinct symptom pattern for chronic whiplash as assessed by the Symptom Checklist-90-R3, and this tool does not even distinguish between minor head injury and whiplash injury, … Address correspondence to Dr. R. Ferrari, University of Alberta Hospital, Department of Medicine, 13-103 Clinical Sciences Building 11350 — 83 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2P4, Canada. E-mail: rferrari{at}shaw.ca ER -