Anyone who has been through a car accident can attest to how terrible the experience is. What’s worse is the physical pain many are left suffering through, long after the debris is cleared and nerves are calmed. There’s no need to turn to powerful medication to relieve your neck or back pain; seeing a chiropractor after a car accident could provide a drug-free, long term treatment.
An accident is so abrupt and jarring…it quite literally jars your body out of alignment, knocking your musculoskeletal system out of alignment. The most common injury suffered during a car accident is known as whiplash, where your body is whipped forward and then backward, straining the muscles and tendons and knocking the spine out of line.
The purpose of chiropractic care is to directly address the causes of your pain in an attempt to provide long-term relief, or even to eliminate pain entirely. Remember, pain medication will not fix your injury, it will merely mask the symptoms of it. Unfortunately, it’s because of this that many pain medications become addictive, as lack of actual treatment of the pain lead to further injury and a need for stronger and stronger doses of medication.
By performing a physical and looking at MRIs of your spine, a chiropractor can pinpoint the injured areas of your body and come up with a treatment plan that is right for you. By identifying the damaged and injured areas, your chiropractor can treat your pain right at the source, with spinal manipulation, massage, and other techniques.
Even if you are not in pain, seeing a chiropractor after a car accident is still very important. You may have suffered soft tissue damage that did not result in pain. Unfortunately, this damage, when left untreated, can lead to worse ailments such as arthritis.
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