Chiropractic Care for Personal Injury

The aftermath of an accident can be a scary time. Property damage and the potential loss of wages, among other things, literally add insult to personal injury when you are also healing and rehabilitating broken bones, lacerations, or unexplained pain.

Whether a work or automobile accident, chiropractic care can play a vital role in post-accident recovery, helping to ensure faster, more complete healing.

Why Chiropractic Care is Important after an Accident

While the emergency room is great for imaging and setting broken bones, evaluating head and neck trauma, and stitching and treating open wounds, the ER staff doesn’t often have time to assess and address the potential, and often many, soft-tissue injuries that can cause pain, neurological and mobility issues long after broken bones have healed.

• Scar tissue that causes long-term stiffness and soreness

• Microtears in muscles and ligaments that create inflammation

• Spinal and joint misalignments from impact that affect movement quality and range of motion

• Nerve damage that impedes nervous system communication and increases the risk of future injury

Many symptoms, such as headaches, neck and back pain, mobility issues, and cognitive difficulties, among others, may not appear until days after you’ve left the ER.  At that point, it can be hard to identify the root cause of the additional pain.

Chiropractic care following a work or automobile accident is an excellent means of assessing total body functionality now and in the weeks and months ahead. Once the presence and severity of injury are identified, manual chiropractic manipulations can address spinal misalignments resulting from your fall or crash. Skilled soft-tissue therapy can be utilized in the absence of fracture, or once fractures have healed, to stretch, strengthen, and soften the muscles, tendons, and ligaments that have protectively tightened up around injured areas.  This not only reduces pain, it helps to keep bones and joints in their proper alignment.

DTX Sports Medicine can help you understand the full extent of your accident-related injuries and create an individualized treatment plan for rehabilitation and healing.