People who have been in a car accident might tell you they feel fine. They might feel fine, but is their body truly fine after it’s been involved in a car collision? In any car accident, there’s about a ton of force exerted on bodies in motion, and even small fender benders can exert enough force to cause injury in human bodies. Time and again, you’ll see people choose to believe they’re fine and walk away from a car crash without any care given to their bodies.
If you’re in a car collision, Walker Chiropractic recommends you seek immediate medical care. You’re not only protecting your health and legal rights going forward after a wreck, but you’re going to get the best results from Walker Chiropractic for your post-wreck care.
A car crash can get your blood flowing and your adrenaline pumping. Your heart races, and the body’s excitement elevates levels of endorphins and adrenaline, which can make you feel energized and pain-free. This is an evolutionary tool we’ve used to great success; not being able to feel pain let us get up and run from the large cat trying to eat us, ignoring sprains, cuts and bruises. Your pain may be masked right away in a car crash by adrenaline.
When muscles, tendons and ligaments — aka soft tissues — are damaged, they can be hard to pinpoint and treat. Soft tissue injuries are common after auto crashes. Even small ones at low speeds can generate a lot of force, and when passengers and drivers are jostled and jerked back and forth, it causes stress on joints and other vulnerable soft tissues. The most common soft tissue injury after a car crash is whiplash. The forceful back and forth motion of the head damages neck muscles, which can cause swelling and pain and can restrict mobility. Whiplash often doesn’t show up immediately and can take few days before you begin to feel its affects.
Concussions are a common post-wreck condition. This condition can be serious and life-threatening if it’s missed and not addressed. The symptoms of a concussion aren’t readily apparent. Some symptoms are obvious like losing consciousness and disorientation, but other signs are much more subtle, like dizziness, blurred vision, headaches, mental fogginess, short term memory loss, and fatigue.
It’s important to seek medical pain management for post-wreck care in addition to the tools and techniques we use at Walker Chiropractic to get you back up on your feet and living a healthy life.
