5 Ways a Chiropractor Can Help With Neck Pain Relief After a Car Accident

Neck pain commonly affects car accident victims. Your body can absorb a lot of blunt force when involved in a collision. As a result, you can experience some damaging consequences. You can experience neck pain caused by injury and damage to the soft tissues. Below are ways that a chiropractor can help relieve your neck pain after an auto accident.

Treat Body Misalignments 

The sudden force from car accidents causes misalignments in your neck and back. As a result, it can damage your soft tissues and tear your muscles. Such damage can cause inflammation because of poor blood circulation.

Your chiropractor can use adjustment techniques to realign back everything. As a result, there will be a better blood flow to the affected areas, and the inflammation will decrease.

Treat Hidden Injuries

Neck injuries may not be apparent after a car accident. An injury like whiplash can take hours to days to show symptoms. Soft tissue damage also takes days to appear on the skin or X-rays. But the best way to treat hidden injuries is to do it early.

Seeing a chiropractor immediately after an accident is beneficial. You can identify the root cause of the neck pain early and begin the proper treatment for your recovery.

Reduce Scar Tissue

Car accidents can easily cause tears in your neck muscles and ligaments. When such tears remain untreated, you can develop scar tissue. As a result, you experience pain and stiffness in your neck region. Scar tissue also restricts your range of motion. It can make it difficult to turn your head and go about your activities. Chiropractic care loosens and repairs the microtears to reduce scar tissue and pain.

Additionally, chiropractic care reduces scar tissue by normalizing the range of neck motion. As a result, the muscle activity of your neck becomes affected. If the joints begin to move as intended, your neck muscles also regain mobility.

Your chiropractor can apply a force at the end of your joint movement range. Doing so will produce cavitation or pop to release the pressure held.

Restore Your Range of Motion

Loss of neck mobility after a car accident can cause pain. A neck injury can restrict flexibility. For example, if you get a whiplash injury, you will experience neck pain and stiffness in the neck muscles. As a result, turning your head side to side can be difficult and painful. Your chiropractor can treat you using spinal adjustments, exercises, and massages. Doing so helps regain lost mobility caused by the injury.

Decrease the Need for Medication

Taking pain-killing medication can become addictive. Most doctors prescribe these to patients experiencing pain after auto accidents. Your chiropractor will adjust your joints and spine. As a result, your neck pain will experience relief. The adjusting treats your nerve, muscle, and joint pain.

Chiropractic neck adjustments or cervical manipulation make the joints in the cervical vertebrae a bit loose. Doing so reduces the neck pain resulting from muscle spasms and pinched nerves. You do not need medication to get this done. 

For more on chiropractic care, visit Back and Neck Pain Centers at our offices in Seattle-Chinatown, Skyway-Renton, Bellevue, or Tukwila-Renton-Kent, Washington. You can call (206) 233-0818, (206) 772-0088, (425) 649-9335, or (425) 243-1200 today to schedule an appointment.