Accidents & Trama
Accidents & Trama
If you have been in an accident or suffered a trauma you need to have your spine checked by a doctor of chiropractic. Any subluxations that were created in your spine during the accident often remain in your body and prevent you from healing properly. That may be the reason why over half of accident victims never completely recover from their injuries and may live on painkillers, physical therapy or even repeated surgery for years. Sometimes they're told that they'll have to live in pain for the rest of their lives!
Since nearly any physical force radiates to the skeletal system and can cause spinal subluxations, a chiropractic spinal checkup is essential after an accident. Chiropractic care may make the difference between true recovery, healing and strength, or lingering pain, sickness and disability.
Chiropractic as an Adjunct Treatment
It must be emphasized that chiropractic never opposes necessary medical care. In emergencies the first order of business is always controlling life threatening situations such as hemorrhage, cessation of breath, broken bones, serious contusions or abrasions, shock and the like. That is the specialty of emergency medicine.
However, many additional lives would undoubtedly be saved if a doctor of chiropractic also attended to the accident victim. Unfortunately, millions of accident victims leave the hospital with as much spinal nerve stress as they had when they entered. That's a big reason why so many people say, "I haven't felt right since the accident," and why they may continue to suffer for months or years afterwards.
Anyone who has been in an accident, even if there are no obvious symptoms, should get a chiropractic checkup. The damage from spinal subluxations may take months or years to surface and a simple spinal checkup today could save an accident victim from much pain and illness later.
Dangerous Highways
More than 41,500 people die and nearly 3,000,000 are injured in traffic crashes every year.