Chiropractic For Motor Vehicle Injuries

How’s it going? This is Doctor Jerald, your Tracy, California chiropractor. Today we’re going to talk about motor vehicle collisions and whiplashes. Most people who have gotten into a car accident have experienced what we call a whiplash. A whiplash is typically is defined as a whipping of the head, a whip like motion of hyper flexion and hyper extension of the head and neck.

What can happen during that time when the head is Instantly flexed forward and hyper extended back can start to injure many different structures in the head, neck, and even in the upper back. Things like your disc, your ligaments, as well as the nerves and the surrounding muscles and tissues and tendons.

And the collision could be as little as five miles per hour, still making a significant damage to the muscles, tissues in your neck, head, and in the upper back. Typically what we see from patients who experienced a motor vehicle collision is a lot of tensioning in the neck region, upper back, and at times mainly the low back.

A lot of the muscles and structures around here are very tight, tense, lots of inflammation. And of course the range of motion of the head and neck is very limited as well as even raising the arms and shoulders. So why it’s important to see a chiropractor after motor vehicle collision is one, we need to get these tissues, these joints, everything around here feeling and moving better.

Your body is now stuck at a fight or flight sympathetic state due to the accident. So what we need to do is really release a lot of these tissues. Get the joints to move with specific chiropractic adjustments, so that way we could decrease inflammation, get better range of motion, take pressure off of those nerves and get you feeling and moving better.

When you come in after a motor vehicle collision, we’ll do specific orthopedic tests, some movement exams, some range of motion exams. Some spinal exams to see what specific areas are actually the ones that we need to work on to get you feeling better. At Optimized State, when a patient comes in after a motor vehicle collision, we’ll do some specific orthopedic tests, spinal examinations, check out the surrounding tissues that have been injured, do specific chiropractic adjustments and other therapies.

Certain exercises to maintain those adjustments and you start to rehab that area. So that way it could start to feel and move better. After a motor vehicle collision is great to see a chiropractor. To help reduce swelling, inflammation, get better range of motion, take pressure off the nerve, get your body back into the parasympathetic state so your body could start to heal the way it’s supposed to.

So if you’ve been in a motor vehicle collision and you’re feeling these symptoms from a whiplash in your neck, back, shoulders, what have you, don’t wait, give us a call, set up your appointment so we could get you treated and feeling and moving better. I’m Doctor Jerald, your Tracy, California chiropractor. I hope to see you soon.