A Minor Car Accident?
Even a minor car accident can have major ill effects on your health. For some, it may be weeks, or months, or even years before the problems show up. And by then, it may be too late to prevent your greatest loss– your health.
Impact and Your Spine
A person’s head weighs about 7 to 11 lbs and it sits on the most flexible (and fragile) part of the spine, the neck. Although the neck looks short, it actually contains 32 joints that stretch to move our head in different directions. If overstretched (Figure 1) after the head is thrown at certain directions during impact, the neck joints can easily get injured.
Figure 1.
If these joints are stretched or strained beyond their normal limits, they can lose their ability to return to their original length. It’s like a rubber band that has been stretched too far.
When a cars collide or hit each other, thousands of pounds of force are exerted upon the neck and spine of the passengers.
The head, which is very heavy as compared to the neck, is thrust toward the hitting vehicle. Then the muscles stretch and react with a violent spasm in the opposite direction. The painful results are injuries to the muscles, ligaments, nerves, and sometimes bones.
A survivor of the wreck is not necessarily alright if he or she doesn’t have any broken bones. Painless chiropractic care is necessary to realign bones of the spine and restore the integrity of the ligaments, joints, and muscles.
How About If You Break a Bone?
When a bone is broken, it heals with a bone and becomes stronger than before. But when soft tissue heals, scar tissues are formed (which are a lot weaker and less resistant than soft tissue). You can compare it to a bruised apple, it never returns to its original state.
The Consequences of Minor Car Accidents?
Minor injuries to the joints, muscles, and ligaments in the neck which are not corrected can cause problems like whiplash, neck pain, shoulder pain, low back pain (as your neck greatly affects your low back!), headaches, neurological problems, and a lot more.
How to get your spine checked after an accident:
As mentioned earlier, even minor car accidents should never be ignored because they can cause long term spinal problems (especially in the neck). So before you suffer from terrible consequences, right after your injury, get your spine checked. Chiropractors will usually provide rapid relief from the symptoms of accident distress and eliminate the cause of the problem by employing comfortable corrective measures.
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