4 Reasons to Call a Chiropractor After a Car Accident
A car accident can change your entire future in an instant. Injuries could land you in the hospital, time missed from work can cause bills to pile up, and the road to recovery may take years. If you are fortunate enough to walk away from an accident, there are still a lot of things you must do to protect your future. An important step you should remember after a car accident is to schedule an appointment with your chiropractor. Chiropractic care can help after a car accident in a number of ways.
1. Treat Hidden Injures
After a car accident, most injuries are easy to spot, like cuts or broken bones. But even if you walk away seemingly unharmed, your body can suffer from injuries that aren’t immediately apparent. Things like whiplash or muscle tears might not cause pain right away, but weeks after the accident, you could lift something heavy or turn the wrong way and aggravate the injury. Your chiropractor can conduct a full body evaluation right after an accident, sometimes identifying issues that might not be picked up by an X-ray.
2. Reduce Pain
A chiropractor is trained to use spinal manipulations to realign your spinal cord after an accident, which helps your body reduces pain and inflammation. Patients undergoing chiropractic care can often avoid the need for addictive prescription painkillers while in recovery. Chiropractic treatment can also help avoid long-term chronic pain by treating your injuries quickly and effectively.
3. Improve Healing
In addition to treating injuries before they can get worse, chiropractic treatment has been shown to reduce recovery time. This applies to both injuries sustained in an accident and when recovering from surgery those injuries made have demanded.
4. Strengthen Your Case
By scheduling an appointment with a chiropractor soon after your accident, you’ll have a full medical record of your condition. This can be incredibly beneficial when seeking compensation for your injuries, as well as compensation for pain and suffering.
Chiropractic treatment isn’t the only medical option after an accident, but it should be one of the tools in your arsenal for recovery. If you need help finding a chiropractor with experience handling car accident injuries, give our office a call at (770) 766-0555. We’ve worked with clients who have sought out chiropractic care and can refer you to an experienced chiropractic doctor who can help you.

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