Can You Treat Whiplash at Home?
As effective as chiropractic care is in helping the body heal from a whiplash injury, what you do at home and at Macgyver can’t fix this one, but you sure can help yourself! work between visits will be just as important as your chiropractic care itself. Because tissues injured in a whiplash trauma are easily re-injured, you can suffer […]
Soft Tissue Rehabilitation
Pain and muscle spasms are common responses to injury. The unfortunate fact is that many people who suffer from whiplash will never fully recover from their soft tissue injuries. While most people are not significantly disabled by their chronic aches, pain and stiffness, it is important, nonetheless, to minimize the degree to which soft tissue injuries become […]
Whiplash Treatment Overview
Whiplash is a unique condition that requires the expertise of a skilled health professional specially trained to work with these types of injuries. The most effective whiplash treatment is a combination of chiropractic care, rehabilitation of the soft tissues and taking care of yourself at home. We will be going into more detail about each of these treatments […]
Grading Whiplash Injuries
The severity and long-term recovery of whiplash injuries vary considerably between individuals. No two cases are exactly alike. As you read in our previous post, Common Injuries from Whiplash, the severity of your injury depends on many factors, such as the speed and direction of the vehicles involved, your age and physical condition, as well as the position of your body […]
Factors Affecting Whiplash Injuries
There are many factors affecting whiplash injuries and the extent that they contribute to the severity of a whiplash injury. such as the direction of impact, the speed of impact, the size of the vehicles involved. your headrest position. and your posture at impact, your physical condition, your awareness of the impending collision, as well as your age and […]
Common Injuries From Whiplash
As we discussed briefly in an earlier post, Understanding Whiplash, whiplash injuries can manifest in a wide variety of ways, including neck pain, headaches, fatigue, upper back and shoulder pain, cognitive changes and low back pain. Due to the fact that numerous factors play into the overall whiplash trauma, such as direction of impact, speed of the vehicles involved, size […]
How Whiplash Hurts You
You’re about to learn how whiplash injuries hurt you! The term “whiplash” was first used in 1928 to define an injury mechanism of sudden hyperextension followed by an immediate hyperflexion of the neck, which results in damage to the muscles, ligaments and tendons-especially those that support the head. Today, we know that whiplash injuries frequently do not result from hyperextension […]
How Your Body Works
In order to fully appreciate the impact that whiplash injuries can have on the human body, it is necessary to talk about how your body works when it is healthy. Because whiplash injuries primarily affect your bones, joints, muscles and nerves – your neuromusculoskeletal system – we will focus our discussion on these areas, and how they cooperate together to give […]
Where Should I Get My Car Fixed?
It may not surprise you to learn that your insurance company is going to recommend one of their preferred shops. They have arrangements with shops that will do some of the work (such as photographing your car) for the insurance company. You are not required to go to one of their shops. You can go to […]
