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Chiropractic Care and Auto Accidents
-What Our Office Can Provide You-
Car accidents are terribly unfortunate scenarios that can result in damage to both your vehicle, AND your body. Sadly, this typically translates to damaging your wallet, as well…
Here at Chawla Chiropractic, we don’t want you to worry about ANY of that. When you come in and take advantage of our services, we treat you with the utmost care. Additionally, we work in coordination with your auto insurance company and attorneys in order to ensure your total coverage is at little to no cost to you!Best part is we are centrally located right in DOWNTOWN MALDEN!
So, if you’ve been injured in an automobile accident, what can chiropractic care do for you?
Well, it highly depends on the injury…
Motor vehicle accidents can result in a multitude of injuries. However, they typically include, but are certainly not limited to:
- Whiplash
- Strained Muscles
- Sprained Ligaments
- Neck, Back, Shoulder, and Joint Pain
- Spinal Injury
- Migraines and Concussions
- Bodily Wounds
Depending on the assessment of injury, Dr. Chawla will choose the best treatment for your needs. The most common injury, however, is whiplash.
What is Whiplash and How Does it Occur?
Whiplash is inflicted in an automobile accident when the head abruptly jerks backwards, forwards, or to either side in a swift motion. In other words, a sudden acceleration or deceleration of the head.
As you can imagine, the event may have taken place in an instant so quick that you might not even know whiplash occurred. In fact, in many cases, symptoms aren’t recognized until days, weeks, or even months later!
In other cases, symptoms can begin immediately. By hyperextending/hyper-flexing the spine, injury can be caused to a number of bodily features including: bone, ligament, nerve, tendon, muscle, and connective tissue.
That is why it is crucial to get to a chiropractic clinic as soon as possible. Otherwise, symptoms can turn into long-term chronic or acute pain. In fact, as stated in the Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association: “Improvement level was lowered by delay in seeking treatment…”.
Nonetheless, whiplash can be a terrible injury that inhibits normal motor movement, paralyzes the spine, and can cause excruciating pain in the neck, shoulder, and back. These injuries can create an onslaught of additional symptoms, as well.
The result?
- Blurry vision
- Headaches and migraines
- Dizziness and nausea
- Pain, stiffness, and soreness
- Chronic neck pain
- And more…
So…The million dollar question: How does chiropractic care treat and resolve many of the issues that accompany whiplash?
Let’s get into it, shall we?!
Chiropractic Services for Automobile Accidents
Chiropractic care can be an extremely effective and beneficial treatment to rehabilitate automobile injuries such as: whiplash, sprains/strains, and more.
Our highly trained chiropractor, Dr. Chawla, will assess your injury and deliver the necessary care for your unique needs.
Much like a whiplash, the most common injury from auto accidents, each case is unique. In other words, not all whiplash’s are created equal nor will all treatments be created equal.
That raises the question: what services are available?
The services that we provide here at Chawla Chiropractic are as follows:
- Corrective Chiropractic Services for Spinal Injuries
- Auto Accident Claims
- Ice x Heat Therapy for Pain and Inflammation
- Passive Therapeutics for Pain, and tightness
- Electrical Muscular Stimulation
- Neuro-Muscular Vibration
- And More!
The techniques that we use are as follows:
- Manual Manipulation
- Activation
- Applied Kinesiology
- And more!
As mentioned above, if you have experienced whiplash or any other injury that can be treated through our chiropractic services, we’re here to help you. While many are unsure if auto accident related injuries can be effectively treated via Chiropractic, the answer is YES!
Through adjustments to the spine, neck, and other joints, Dr. Chawla is able to restore joint function.
Through ice & heat therapy, we’re able to reduce inflammation, and thus hopefully resulting in a total reduction of pain at the source, as well.
Through passive treatment therapy, you can begin to experience relief, whether that be from pain, headaches, stiffness, or otherwise.
At Chawla Chiropractic, we’re fully equipped to deal with these scenarios and know just what to do when you contact us with such an injury. While it’s a terrible thing to go through, we’ve got your back!
Conclusion
Our goal as chiropractors is to give the most instinctive, necessary care needed for our patients. With regards to an auto accident causing injuries like whiplash, we are more than equipped to take care of you.
Our end goal is to control, mediate, or eliminate pain, restore or begin to restore range of motion in your neck, shoulders, and back, and ultimately get you back to living a normal and healthy life.
Again, automobile accidents can be a devastating event. However, if and when it occurs, don’t hesitate to reach out to Chawla Chiropractic. As mentioned throughout this article, it’s crucial to tackle the source of the injury as soon as possible to avoid any lasting, long-term pain.
Call or email us today to schedule a consultation or appointment. We are gladly here to help!
Phone: (617) 334-5002
Email: drc@chawlachiropractic.com
Address: 42 Eastern Ave Malden, MA
Sources
https://chawlachiropractic.com/#services
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2484939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2585479/
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/whiplash/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20378926
