Even after the emergency staff has indicated no serious injuries from their car accident and sent them home with a fist full of pain medication, prudent consumers of health care services in Charlotte NC regularly seek chiropractic care for an auto accident injury. By taking charge of their own health care treatment, these consumers choose curative treatment for their car accident injuries.

Chiropractic care for an auto accident injury

During a car accident, our bodies can sustain trauma, especially to our neuro-musculoskeletal systems. When soft tissues are injured, they become inflamed, swell, and begin to cause pain; this process can often take a few days, and some injuries take even longer to become apparent. Common symptoms of car accident injury include headaches, neck pain, back pain, damage to nerves, muscles and ligaments, or problems in the knees, arms, shoulders, and legs. It is a good idea to have a chiropractor examine you after an auto accident injury, to be sure your spine has not sustained the types of injuries that crop up later. You should always be examined by a Charlotte chiropractor prior to signing off on your insurance injury claim. ChiroCarolina®’s professional and caring chiropractors are always ready to offer assistance to those who seek out chiropractic care for an auto accident injury.

Chiropractic care targets the whole body

For the doctors at ChiroCarolina®, the whole premise of chiropractic health care is the restoration of spinal health so your body achieves its highest potential for maximizing full function. The chiropractic philosophy of health care assumes that a well-functioning human body is able to manage its own wellness control. By operating smoothly, efficiently, and painlessly, our spines serve to move our bodies and limbs as needed, support and protect our internal organs and spinal cord, and oversee the body’s communications through the nervous system, monitoring and directing messaging impulses from cell to cell. If the spine is injured or misaligned so that nerve impulses are compromised, full functioning of the body is impossible. If our spines are not working to full potential, the rest of our bodies cannot, either.

Auto accident injury

Whiplash is a common type of auto accident injury, in which your soft neck and back tissues become damaged as your head is flung first in one direction and then whipped back toward the opposite direction. Whiplash can be a back to front motion, front to back, or a side-to-side motion. Pain from this type of injury may take a day or two to fully develop, and can sometimes take weeks to treat effectively.

At ChiroCarolina®, chiropractic care for an auto accident injury typically entails a balanced approach to help injured areas return to normal function. A gentle chiropractic adjustment can return your spine and joints to their normal mobility; physiotherapy helps supportive tissues such as injured muscles, tendons, and ligaments to heal and grow stronger. Your chiropractor may also help you with exercise and nutrition strategies to help you stay healthy after your treatment is complete. Caring Charlotte chiropractors counsel against stopping treatment too soon. Patients sometimes stop treatment as soon their pain is gone and this often leads to a relapse if the root cause of damage has not yet been alleviated.

Chiropractic care for an auto accident injury can get you back on the road to health and well being. Visit ChiroCarolina® for more information on chiropractic care and the many treatments available at ChiroCarolina® in Charlotte NC.  Click online or call for an appointment. At ChiroCarolina®, chiropractic care for an auto accident injury is care you can count on.