Auto Accident Injuries - Palm Beach County, FL

Auto Accident Injuries - Palm Beach County

Although for some people pain and injuries may immediately be obvious, many individuals involved in a car accidents only experience symptoms 1 to 2 weeks later. Symptoms may include fatigue, difficulty sleeping, tension spasm, and headaches.

It is important to receive immediate and appropriate treatment for any injuries you may have sustained.

The sad thing about whiplash is that people don't think it is real and it can obviously cause neck pain, but, it can also cause pain anywhere in the body and a lot of this pain may not come out for months with strange seemingly unrelated symptoms like indigestion, fatigue, dizziness, a whole myriad of things and a large percentage of the people who get whiplash, and whiplash doesn't just mean that you got hit from behind in a car, you can get whiplash from playing tennis or falling down, get these symptoms.

Whiplash is something that needs to be treated quickly and aggressively. With a new injury there is a certain window of opportunity to treat the injury and get it healed quickly, if treatment does not begin within that window, things can get chronic and sometimes life-long.

Whiplash injuries are very common in car accidents. The whiplash injury is in, part due to the fact that muscles do not have enough time to brace themselves. Uncomplicated cases of whiplash are the result of sprained ligaments in the neck; the muscles naturally spasm as a protective mechanism. Pain from whiplash can result in a stiff neck or may travel down one or both arms. Regular Chiropractic care can relieve simple cases of whiplash.

Severe Cases of Whiplash

A more severe case of whiplash can come with persistent, ongoing pain that lasts for a month or more. This pain may indicate that whiplash more extensively damaged and/or trapped the nerves.

Whiplash can also lead to discs rupturing in the neck or a "slipped" or herniated disc in the back. Other symptoms from a car accident/whiplash may include radiating pain in the shoulder, elbow, wrist or hand, lower back pain, leg pain, headaches, and more.

An article published in the Journal of Orthopedic Medicine in 1999 pointed to the superiority of Chiropractic care for patients suffering from long term whiplash.

The authors of the article noted that a previous study had shown that 93% of patients with chronic whiplash benefited from Chiropractic care.

In the authors' own study, they interviewed 100 consecutive Chiropractic referrals of patients with chronic whiplash. Their results also showed that of the 93 patients who remained in the study, 69 of them showed a 74% noticeable improvement with regards to decreased pain syndromes.

Back to the top

This educational content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal, financial, home improvement or health advice. Content on this page is provided by Ask The Experts and not the featured advertiser.