Whereas traditional medicine frequently focuses on the visible injuries of an accident, such as broken bones, cuts, and bruises, our chiropractors focus on the hidden parts that repeatedly show up later due to joint difficulties, misalignment, soft-tissue damage, and recurrent injury symptoms.
Days after an auto accident, as the body starts to unwind and allow itself to concentrate on healing, it’s not uncommon for secondary injuries to become apparent. This typically manifests as a lack of movement, intense, stabbing pain as opposed to sharp pain from severe injuries, and a loss of strength or flexibility.
Try chiropractic care if you’ve been hurt in an auto accident and are sick of popping pills that don’t work. To relieve your pain and prevent the injury from recurring, we treat the injury’s primary cause rather than utilizing medications to cover up your symptoms. When relief is just around the corner, don’t let an auto injury reduce the quality of your life.
Commonly Treated Injuries from Auto Accidents
Your body is under excessive strain after an auto accident, which could lead to damage. Several factors, including flying debris, seat belts, and airbags, could cause you to get injuries in an accident. Fortunately, a chiropractor can handle the majority of car accidents. The typical auto accidents we take involve:
Whiplash
This happens when the head quickly snaps back and forth, injuring your neck’s ligaments and tendons.
Headaches
Headaches following an auto accident are frequent, especially in the first 24 hours.
Shoulders hurt
An automobile collision can harm your shoulder’s bones, tendons, and ligaments.
Backache
An auto accident’s impact could rupture a muscle or herniate a disc.
Knee ache
Injuries sustained in an auto accident frequently include knee dislocation, sprains, and strains.
If, after an auto collision, you are not in pain or appear to have any injuries, you should seek medical assistance right away. Auto injuries may manifest days or weeks after an accident, so getting treatment is essential to ensure you receive relief before the injuries worsen over time.
How to Prepare for Your Chiropractic Consultation
After receiving a warm greeting from our receptionist, you will need to complete some paperwork. We must gather all the information about what occurred during the accident to evaluate the forces that damaged and hurt your body and develop the most effective diagnosis and treatment strategy.
After that, your chiropractor will be introduced, starting by getting to know you personally. After that, we’ll investigate your medical background and ask you to list your symptoms.
After that, we conduct physical examinations, during which we have you perform a series of exercises to help us identify any areas of pain or restricted motion.
Depending on the type of injury, we may use the digital x-rays we have on hand in our clinic to help with diagnosis. Making a treatment plan comes next after a correct diagnosis.
How Chiropractic Care Can Aid in Auto Accidents
Spinal adjustment
Your body’s joints react to complex forces after an auto accident, injuring every joint part. We provide chiropractic adjustments to encourage motion and jump-start your body’s self-healing process.
Extremity manipulation
Comparable to the joints in your spine, other joints in your body might occasionally sustain similar injuries in an auto accident and necessitate medical attention.
Laser treatment
Years of research on low-level laser therapy have shown that it can significantly speed up the repair of damaged tissue by assisting cells in producing more ATP on their own.
Electrical arousal
Electric stimulation can help muscles incredibly stiff or in spasm after a car accident, allowing the adjustment to hold better and promoting blood flow to the area, delivering nutrition to the cells to repair.
Using myofascial release
Myofascial release (MFR) seeks to release tight muscles, enhance blood and lymphatic circulation, and activate the stretch reflex in the muscles. MFR is a soft tissue therapy that targets the fascia, the tenacious, elastic connective tissue that envelops muscle tissue and most other bodily components.
Ultrasound treatment
We use this therapy to promote healing in deeper tissues, including the paraspinal muscles that run parallel to your spine and may have suffered damage while trying to maintain their alignment during the severe pressures of the accident.
Exercises for posture and stretches
Chiropractic exercises targeting your body’s major joints and muscles enhance mobility and reduce discomfort. Postural workouts aid in restoring standard mechanics that may have been lost due to your body’s hasty attempt to adjust after the injury.
Traction
Reducing pressure or straightening shattered bones is known as “traction.” Although traction has become less popular over time, it is still helpful for some types of injuries. It remains on our broad list of available therapies and treatments because of this.
Tips on diet and lifestyle
We will help you assess your diet and lifestyle to ensure you are doing everything possible to recover as quickly as possible.
Conditioning and strengthening
Getting you back to what’s important—work, life, leisure, and everything else—is the aim of auto-injury treatment. Deconditioning and strength loss can occur due to injury treatment and recovery.
Even if there is no loss of strength or fitness, making progress in these areas can aid pain management and promote a quicker and more thorough return to activities.
Chiropractic Care’s Benefits for Auto Accident Injuries
Even if you don’t experience any pain or discomfort right away after an auto accident, getting chiropractic therapy is one of the best things you can do for yourself. Benefits of chiropractic care for injuries sustained in auto accidents include:
- Shortened turnaround times
- Detection of concealed damages that do not yet have many, if any, signs
- The provision of non-invasive and all-natural therapy solutions
- Decreases the likelihood of significant scarring and chronic pain
- Diminution of edema and inflammation
- Regaining the injured body part’s suppleness and range of motion
