What Whiplash Treatment Did You Get?
If you’ve been to the medical doctor for your whiplash injuries, you may be wondering why your treatment really isn’t working.
The doctor took x-rays of your neck, diagnosed you with whiplash, and your treatment was painkillers and a brace for your neck.
But you can’t sleep at night because of the pain and discomfort.
You can’t read because you can’t move your head to look downward, and you have a lot of neck pain and stiffness as well as headaches.
What you’re realizing is that your whiplash treatment isn’t addressing the root of the cause – the actual injuries in your neck.
The Biomechanics of Whiplash
When you were in the car accident and the other car rear-ended your car, your head was thrust forward after it first went backwards in a whiplike fashion.
The muscles and ligaments did their best to try to hold them in position, but the force of the impact made them go beyond their capabilities.
The vertebrae and disks may have been displaced during the injury.
There are other things that may have happened, too – maybe your vertebrae were twisted in the process, and can’t find their way back to the neutral position.
Other Health Professionals Can’t Offer Whiplash Treatment
This is why your whiplash treatment so far is not working – it’s not addressing what already happened to the vertebrae.
The medication you are taking has no magic powers to untwist the vertebrae or snap it back into position as if it were a hand.
Only by using chiropractic for whiplash will you get these changes to occur.
The same thing is true for physical therapy.
You can be doing exercises prescribed by the physical therapist til doomsday but they aren’t going to untwist the vertebrae or place it back into position as a hand would. Only by using chiropractic for whiplash will you get these changes to occur.
And the same thing is true for massage therapy.
You can get massages from now til the end of the world but a massage therapist is not trained to untwist the vertebrae and re-align it. Only by using chiropractic for whiplash will you get these changes to occur.
How Often Do I Go To the Chiropractor for Whiplash Treatment?
Your visits to the chiropractor for whiplash will start out at a frequency of daily, drop down to three per week, then two per week, and finally one per week.
Eventually you’ll get to the point where you will be seeing your chiropractor once a month for maintenance.
This is the least number of visits most people want – and they continue them for years at this frequency – just to make sure their nervous system stays ‘tuned up’.
This is why getting chiropractic treatment for your whiplash symptoms is a good idea – once your vertebrae are aligned properly, your spinal nerves will be transmitting the nerve impulses to your muscles, joints, organs and tissues – and relieving any of the stresses that occur from normal daily living.
If you have had a whiplash injury, don’t wait. Call Eastside Chiro today!
