The "whiplash shaken infant syndrome" is a result of manual shaking by the extremities with whiplash-induced intracranial and retinal bleedings, linked with permanent brain damage or death. Shaken baby syndrome is a myth, experts say. The Shaken Baby Syndrome campaign has been one of the most successful public-service pushes of the last few decades – the warning to “never shake a baby” can be recited by many adults and children on request — but what hasn’t been communicated is … The most telling physical realities that confronts Shaken Baby Syndrome and reveals it as an unproven belief or at worst a dangerous myth occurs when one scientifically examines this notion that the only explanation when there is a subdural hematoma or subarachnoid bleeding and the retinal bleeding without outward obvious trauma is SBS. The dispute over shaken baby syndrome is a bitter civil war. While there’s no question that Shaken Baby Syndrome shatters lives, a new study is casting doubt over the way it is diagnosed. Opponents say the diagnosis is used too freely and that sometimes, innocent people go to prison. Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS), also known as abusive head trauma or non-accidental injury, as an unscientific medical misdiagnosis, or medical myth, falsely-accused of SBS, wrongfully convicted of child abuse, alternative causes. PEORIA, IL -- Shaken baby syndrome, a diagnosis used to convict and imprison parents and caretakers for child abuse, has no scientific basis showing it actually occurs. On one side, doctors, lawyers and other experts say the diagnosis is key to winning convictions of people accused of the most horrible acts of child abuse. That was the conclusion of a panel at a Peoria meeting on April 25.

This is the diagnosis whereby caregivers are convicted of child abuse after babies die of sudden subdural brain bleeding and swelling with no evidence of external injury. Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) is a popular diagnosis given over the last 30 years when a child has internal injuries that cannot be explained from obvious accidental injury. The most common reason for this violent shaking episode is caregiver frustration and anger over an infant's prolonged or inconsolable crying. FACT: Severe brain injury and death can be caused by a single violent episode of shaking. An amazing article by Slate's Emily Bazelon in the New York Times magazine finds that this may be the case with shaken baby syndrome. MYTH: Shaken baby syndrome occurs after multiple episodes of violent shaking and abuse. For parents who insist they’ve been falsely accused of harming their children, it’s both heartbreaking and a source of hope.