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Involved in a Car Accident? Here Are 5 Signs You May Need Whiplash Treatment

Written By Health For Life Chiropractic on November 5, 2018

Have you been in a car accident recently? If you walked away feeling okay, but then developed neck pain or other symptoms afterward (up to a few days later), you may have whiplash.

You might have heard of this injury, but lots of people don’t know that it’s actually a neck injury you should get treated. In fact, anywhere from 12% - 50% of whiplash sufferers still experience neck pain as long as a year after their injury, according to the Cleveland Clinic. 

To prevent this outcome, here’s what you need to know, including information about auto injury treatment.

What Exactly Is Whiplash?

Whiplash (also called a neck strain or sprain) is most commonly associated with a car injury. Treatment is necessary to help alleviate the pain.

This injury to your neck happens when your head is jerked backward and forward quickly – a motion that usually only happens when you’re in a car that experiences outside impact. However, there can be other injuries that cause whiplash if a similar jerking motion happens (generally, sports injuries are the second most common, after car injuries).

This unnatural motion causes damage to your neck and may also impact the joints, cervical muscles, ligaments, nerve roots, and discs along your vertebrae.

6 Signs You Need Whiplash Treatment

You may need auto injury treatment if you are experiencing any of the following symptoms. These are the most common:

1.  Neck pain

2.  Pain between the shoulder blades

3.  Headaches and/or dizziness

4.  Concentration issues or trouble sleeping

5.  Irritability or fatigue

6.  Loss of range-of-motion


 

Call a Chiropractor for Car Injury and Whiplash Treatment

If you were recently in a car accident or suffered an injury that caused your head to jerk forward and backward, you may have whiplash.

The pain and symptoms of whiplash can persist long after the injury happens unless you get proper car injury treatment. 

A chiropractor will work with you to minimize the pain and keep it from recurring. For example, therapeutic exercises and heat therapy can help restore your range-of-motion and loosen painful, tight muscles.

If you think you may have Whiplash, talk to us at Health for Life Chiropractic and make an appointment. We can help you get back to being pain-free: (770) 489-0187


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