Whiplash :: Auto Accident

-

Have you been in a car or motorcycle accident and decided you weren’t injured, but the next day experienced severe aches and pain in your neck or back? Or
perhaps you suffered from a headache, numbness in your hands, legs, or had difficulty flexing your neck or turning your head normally? Maybe you hit your head on the steering wheel, windshield, or headrest during the accident and later experienced headaches, memory loss, blurry vision, or even a painful jaw ache? Or could it be that your symptoms following your accident included chest pain or cramps and spasms in your neck and back?

Did you know that during an automobile accident, the most movable object in the car is you… your trunk, neck, and head! Imagine, one thousand pounds of pressure moving through your body in a split second and all of the bones in your neck and spine are mechanically altered by injury at this time. An accident can impact any human, altering the shape of their spine. The airbag, seat belt, and headrest cam also have a major impact in injury altering the spine, and neck curve. During your injury, the neck muscles, tendons and ligaments are hyper extended, hyper flexed, sprained, strained, torn causing whiplash and other soft tissue injuries.
Automobile injuries and whiplash are the single-most significant factor causing major neurological difficulties altering quality of life, mental health, and physical health! At Springs Family Chiropractic we diagnose injuries utilizing the Croft Institute Guidelines for automobile injuries and create our treatment protocols around the same guidelines. Additionally, we utilize three-dimensional x-rays showing us the structural damage to the spine and neck which helps us to develop the correct treatment plans needed to stabilize these damaged areas and make them strong, stable and healthy.
Ever wonder what whiplash looks like from the inside? Watch the video and learn all about it!



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

DECOMPRESSION THERAPY

-
Image
If you have suffered a recent car accident, trip and fall, sports collision, or repetitive work injury, you may be having some joint problems in the spine and neck we have joints that are connected together with ligaments but in the spine we have a total of nine surrounding each bone. These ligaments are designed to maintain stability for the spinal column so that the bones do not misalign and compress, pinch, or sever the spinal cord, which would impair oxygen, blood and energy control to our organs and muscles. In our spine and neck we also have discs. These discs are called intervertebral discs. The discs are primarily cartilage on the outside with a center that is a gel water substance. Our discs act as shock absorbers when we walk, run or jump to allow forces to be spread out along our spine. These discs also allow space between each bone in the spine for nerves to exit out into the body. All of these ligaments and discs can be injured once or repetitively. Bones will shift out o...
Read more

Children and Chiropractic Care

-
Image
Do your kids jump from the couch, the bed, the stairs, like they’re acrobats? Or stunt doubles in a movie? This is pretty common for kids under youthful energy and fearless minds. Do you have babies or infants that can’t move their head very well or are hitting their head against the crib or always grabbing their neck or head with their hands? Parents see this activity in a baby or infant can be stressful or unsettling. Do your children have allergies or they seem to be sick all the time? This can be sad and frustrating for a child and the parent. A child’s life does not have to stay this way with struggles of health and physical ability. Children get exposed to many different forms of stress as do adults. We expect kids to be resilient, young, and tress free. However they really do have daily stressors that effect the functioning of their nervous system and their health. We’re going to review some of these stressors and how to correct them at your local chiropractic clinic. Fi...
Read more

Arthritis Solution!

-
Do you suffer from arthritis in your wrists, shoulder, back, hips, knees, or feet? What is really occurring is that the joints have been misaligned, creating abnormal wear and tear on the joints, ligaments, and cartilage. Unfortunately, this can occur from physical, ,chemical, or emotional events that cause stress to our bodies. Once the joint is misaligned, it is unable to self-correct. It does not matter if you stretch, exercise, massage the joints, take pain pills, take vitamins, ice, take a hot bath, or try to sleep it off. The joints will stay misaligned. In time, this becomes osteoarthritis. Doctors have proven that a satisfactory treatment for arthritis is exercise, which gets the joints moving and increases oxygen and blood to the joints, which in turn decreases inflammation. Unfortunately, this does not correct the problem and does not stop the progression of arthritis. Doctors have found the best treatment for arthritis in our joints-a combination of...
Read more