How Chiropractic Care Treats Auto Accident Injuries

When you're injured in an auto accident, seeking proper medical care can help you feel like yourself again. At Awender Chiropractic Massage and Weight Loss, we believe in the power of chiropractic care for healing auto accident injuries like whiplash. We're going to discuss the symptoms of whiplash and how chiropractic care can help, so that you'll know what to do and where to turn if you're injured in an auto accident.

Symptoms of Whiplash Can Be Subtle

Symptoms of whiplash can come on gradually after an accident. The symptoms include:

• Neck pain and back pain
• Difficulty focusing or remembering
• Dizziness and headaches
• Irritability and aggression
• Stiffness and limited range of motion
• Muscle spasms
• Swelling
• Difficulty sleeping, insomnia
• Tightness in the jaw and difficulty eating

Chiropractic Care Can Help

Chiropractic care can help with your whiplash! Using standard techniques, chiropractic care can help put your back into alignment, heal injured muscles and restore your body to its natural state prior to the accident. Here's how:

• Spinal manipulation. Spinal manipulation is the process of restoring alignment to the spine and eliminating subluxations. This can eliminate pain in the back and also improve communication between the brain and the rest of the body, which helps the body to heal itself.
• Spinal decompression. Spinal decompression is the process of creating negative pressure on injured vertebrae to put bulging discs back in place.
• Therapeutic massage. This technique helps relax the muscles and increase blood flow to injured areas. Therapeutic massage also delivers oxygen to the muscles and speeds the healing process, while also making patients feel more relaxed.
• Exercises and stretches. Chiropractors teach patients how to perform stretches and exercises to strengthen and heal their muscles.

Contact Our Redwood City Auto Accident Chiropractor Today

If you've recently been injured in a car accident, don't waste any time. See a chiropractor today. Contact Awender Chiropractic Massage and Weight Loss to make an appointment or call at 650-362-8176.

Have you been in an auto accident? What kind of injuries did you suffer from is any?