Car Accidents and Injury Whiplash
Auto Accidents and Chiropractic Care
Auto Accidents and Chiropractic Care
If you're suffering in pain from an auto accident / car crash, you might be surprised to learn that Chiropractic is the best way to decrease pain, restore range of motion, and prevent permanent damage.
Dr. Park has over 30 years experience in treating patients who have been injured in car crashes. His proven experience is one of the most valuable tools to recovery for accident patients.
If you have back pain or neck pain after a car accident, this could mean you have a spinal or whiplash injury. Without proper care, these types of injuries can have a serious, negative impact on your health; not for just the first few days after the injury, but for months, or possibly even years, of chronic pain.
What Happens to My Neck and Back in a Car Crash?
An auto impact (even a minor fender bender) is abrupt and forceful, the head can be thrown violently forward, backward, or from side to side in an unnatural way causing the head to whip from the G forces. Hence the term Whiplash.
As a result of this whipping motion, you will likely suffer a neck or back injury from tearing of the ligaments, muscles and/or tendons.
These soft tissue injuries will lead to Inflammation and pain, which in turn leads to decreased range of motion and stiffness. Motion is Lotion for the joint.
Auto injury patients can feel stiff, sore and have a decreased range of motion after an accident. Lack of motion slows the body's ability to heal. Without lubricant the joint may degenerate leading to OsteoArthritis and permanent damage.
With chiropractic adjustments, mobility to your spine is restored, proper range of motion increases and Synovial Fluid is produced, helping your body begin the healing process at a much faster rate.
What about my pain?
Traditional medical approaches generally rely on medications to cover up pain symptoms or reduce inflammation. Painkillers provide immediate relief to the patient, but do not offer a long-term solution when it comes to managing the pain. In addition, medication does not do much in terms of helping patients regain lost mobility after spine or whiplash injury.
Chiropractic adjustments not only can relieve pressure on the muscles and nerves, but it also brings alignment back to the spine, increasing range of motion slowing the degenerative process.
Additional therapies and corrective exercise, can help bring back the body’s full range of motion.
If you’ve been in an auto accident, regardless of whether it was a “fender bender” or a major crash, prompt chiropractic care will help support your body’s natural healing process and help you avoid a lifetime of chronic pain, osteoarthritis and other chronic health problems.
Written by,
Dr. Robert Park D.C.