Talk:Railway spine

Symptoms?
What are the symptoms of this disease? The name suggests some sort of back issue but it's never clear exactly what it is. I'm also going to make this a stub.RSido 04:37, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Deleting inaccuracies
I'm deleting most of this paragraph for historical inaccuracy:

"Train travel in the 19th century was a hazardous and potentially lethal activity. Train schedules were virtually random, telegraphs had yet to be invented and so there was no way to communicate problems on the line, and in many parts of the eastern U.S there did not even exist a standard time between different cities by which to coordinate schedules. The result was hundreds of railroad crashes. Exacerbating the problem was the fact that railway cars were flimsy, wooden structures with no protection for the occupants. Railway collisions were a common occurrence."

There are half a dozen inaccurate or misleading statements here; but I'll leave it up to someone else with a greater interest in this topic to rewrite this unsourced article.

Also, I'm deleting the (italicized) POV phrase in this sentence: "The railroads, at the time run by men seeking quick profit, rejected these claims as faked. Textorus (talk) 01:32, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

I do not delete, but would highly recommend the comparison to whiplash be immediately removed. Railway Spine had nothing to do with a physical injury, yet this article leads one down that path after the correct description of a mental trauma. Whomever put this thing up mish-mashed two symptoms together apparently because the same doctor studied both physical and mental trauma of surviving rail accident patients. To Textorus, Haphazardly editing this Wiki because you have no interest in it is worse than leaving it intact. Deleting what you assume to be a POV without research of your own is overstepping any authority you may think you have. If the italics represented a quote there is a plethora of previous acceptance of quotations in Wiki articles, even if they represented an opinion. (nearly every quote is going to be looked at as the person's opinion.)--75.17.215.115 (talk) 04:41, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

PTSD according to Freud
Regards "Freud would conclude that the "nervous psycho-somatic symptoms" of "railway-spine" lay in a deeply rooted facet of infantile sexual life."

Is it really necessary or desirable to associate the suffering of people with PTSD with a non-specific "deeply rooted facet of infantile sexual life". I find this demeaning have deleted the paragraph on Freud's interpretation, naturally subject to review by the regular editors. Doug (talk) 20:25, 25 June 2013 (UTC)