After an auto accident injury, most people opt for getting down to the Emergency Room to make sure they don’t have any broken bones or serious injuries.
This is a pretty smart move, because undiagnosed injuries can potentially harm you – or even kill you.
One example is internal bleeding from a punctured organ.
After An Auto Accident Injury Visit Your Chiropractor
After you find out the status of your body, it’s a good idea to head on down to the Eastside Chiropractic Office office to start the healing process.
Often in car injuries, the muscles have been sprained or strained – and medical doctors don’t have any type of medication that will heal this.
Dr. Westrick does though!
She will first check your spine for alignment, because it’s too easy for the impact of a crash to cause misalignments.
After your spinal nerves come out from the spinal cord through holes in the vertebrae, they go to whatever organs and tissues they are supposed to innervate.
If there’s a vertebrae out of place, then the nerve may be compressed, severed or injured in other ways.
Symptoms That A Nerve is Hurt After an Car Accident
Nerves that are injured from an auto accident injury cry out in pain with symptoms such as numbness, radiating pain, the feeling of ants crawling, or pin prick sensations.
Are you having any of these sensations right now?
When your chiropractor moves the vertebrae back into place in your spine, the nerve can actually start to heal.
This is why your pain from an auto accident injury feels better after a few chiropractic adjustments.
Whiplash – Another Common Injury
One of the other types of auto accident injury that occur is whiplash.
This is when your head is thrust forward and then ‘whipped’ backwards.
In this auto accident injury, symptoms might include headaches, vision changes, pain in the neck, loss of movement in the neck, and even pain that radiates down the arm.
Tight neck muscles accompany the whiplash auto accident injury because your neck is trying to protect you from any further damage.
Dr. Westrick will adjust your neck gently and slowly, day by day; you will begin to feel better.
The nervous system is so relieved when the hurting and compressed nerves are given their space so they can heal.
The congestion in the area relieves, and you will get better – your body is a healing machine – and your chiropractor works WITH it instead of against it so you can heal the auto accident injury.
See Eastside Chiropractic as soon as possible after you experience an injury due to an auto accident; you’ll be glad you did.
