Prompt, thorough care after a car accident, from whiplash to lingering back and neck pain.
You are in your car, relaxed, waiting at a stoplight. Suddenly you hear the screeching of tires behind you and the harsh sound of metal hitting metal. In the split seconds before you can brace yourself, you feel your car moving forward from some unseen force.
You have been rear-ended.
What happens in these few seconds can have tragic consequences, and what you do about it in the next hours, days, and weeks can forever affect your health. Upon impact, your body pushes deeply into your seat. Your head, momentarily isolated by your neck, delays its reaction while your body quickly reaches the limits of your seat.
Then your body instantly changes direction, moving forward to the limits of your seat belt. Now your head starts moving backwards in the opposite direction. Unrestrained by a seat belt, your head is jerked back and then forward beyond its normal limits. Everything seems to be happening in slow motion, yet you are unable to stop your head from whipping backward and then forward.
Do not minimize your own injuries because your car has sustained little or no damage. An immediate chiropractic examination is essential. Pain pills will not heal inflamed tendons and ligaments. Muscle relaxers will not heal torn muscles. A cervical collar will not restore a graceful spinal curve.
A whiplash injury can straighten the natural curve in the neck, stretching the spinal cord. Symptoms can appear months and even years later. Specific chiropractic adjustments, exercises, and mechanical traction can help restore proper motion and position of individual spinal bones, and can help assure proper healing.
Dr. Elizabeth Johnsen, certified in Chiropractic BioPhysics, can help you get well and stay well after the trauma of a whiplash injury. Chiropractic BioPhysics care is a team approach to better health. As you enjoy results, tell those you love. Explain how millions enjoy relief and better health by restoring the integrity of their spines and nervous system with safe and natural chiropractic care.
Whether you have been in an accident, stressed at work, or overexerted yourself in the garden, your body is constantly adapting to its environment. When your capacity to adapt is exhausted, symptoms can appear. This can take days, weeks, months, or years to occur.
Because the nerves to the arms and hands exit the spine through the injured area of the neck, numbness and tingling are common. Even lower back pain with pain down the legs to the feet can result directly from the trauma, or as a reaction to the loss of proper spinal curves.
At the Spine & Scoliosis Clinic, our patients report improved spinal curves and an end to their symptoms. Those who delay seeking appropriate care often discover that scar tissue and spinal instability require periodic chiropractic checkups.
Since car accidents are the major cause of acceleration and deceleration injuries, defensive driving skills help. Be sure your taillights and turn signals are working properly. Allow enough stopping distance in front of you. When you slow down or stop, check your rearview mirror to see whether the driver behind you is paying attention.
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