Auto Injury
Did an auto injury leave you with pain, stiffness, headaches, or difficulty moving comfortably? Even if you felt fine immediately after the collision, symptoms can appear hours or days later as inflammation and muscle tension begin to develop.
At Optimal Health Chiropractic, we evaluate the specific areas injured during the accident and create a personalized treatment plan to relieve pain, restore movement, and help your body properly recover.
Whether you were rear-ended, struck from the side, or involved in a more serious collision, getting examined can help identify injuries that may not be obvious right away.
Hurt in a Car Accident?
Get the Care You Need to Move Forward
Schedule a convenient time to meet with our team. We’ll evaluate your symptoms, explain what may have been injured, and create a personalized plan to help you recover comfortably.
Auto Injury: Common Problems After a Car Accident
A collision can push, pull, or twist the body in ways it cannot comfortably absorb. The head may move rapidly forward and backward, the seat belt may place pressure across the shoulder and torso, and the lower back can absorb force from the impact.
These sudden movements can injure muscles and ligaments, restrict spinal joints, irritate nerves, and place stress on the discs in the neck and back.
We evaluate and treat auto accident injuries such as:
- Whiplash
- Neck sprains and strains
- Lower and middle back injuries
- Herniated or bulging discs
- Pinched and irritated nerves
- Shoulder pain caused by impact or seat belt restraint
- Muscle spasms and soft-tissue injuries
- Joint restrictions in the neck and back
- Sciatica and pain that travels down the leg
- Headaches related to neck tension or injury
If your primary complaint is stiffness, reduced motion, or pain that travels from your neck into your shoulders or arms, visit our Neck Pain page for more information. If the collision caused lower back pain or difficulty bending and standing, visit our Back Pain page.
How We Treat Auto Accident Injuries
Before treating an auto injury, we’ll discuss how the collision happened, where you feel pain, when your symptoms began, and which movements make them worse. We’ll then examine the injured areas and use digital X-rays when needed to look for changes in spinal alignment, joint position, and other signs of injury.
Your treatment plan may include:
Manual Adjustments – Whiplash and other collision injuries can restrict movement in the joints of the neck and back. Chiropractic adjustments help restore proper joint motion, reduce pressure on irritated nerves, and relieve the stiffness that makes it difficult to turn, bend, sit, or stand comfortably. We adapt each adjustment to the location and severity of your injury instead of using the same approach for every patient.
MLS Laser Therapy – Car accidents frequently cause sprains, strains, and inflammation within the muscles, ligaments, and other soft tissues. MLS Laser Therapy delivers targeted light energy to the injured area to help reduce inflammation, improve circulation, and support tissue repair. It may help relieve soreness and muscle spasms while allowing the injured area to move more comfortably.
SoftWave Therapy – Some auto accident injuries continue to cause pain because damaged soft tissues have not fully healed. SoftWave Therapy stimulates blood flow and activates the body’s natural repair response in the treated area. We may use it to address persistent pain, inflammation, and tissue damage in the neck, back, or shoulders.
Many accident patients benefit from combining treatments. Adjustments may be used to restore joint movement, while MLS Laser Therapy or SoftWave Therapy addresses inflammation and injured soft tissues. We’ll determine the right combination based on your examination findings, symptoms, and progress.
Personalized Care From Your First Visit Through Recovery
An auto injury may affect more than one area of the body. Treating only the spot that hurts most can allow another part of the injury to go unaddressed.
At Optimal Health Chiropractic, we look at how the collision affected your neck, back, shoulders, posture, and overall movement. We then explain what we found and develop a treatment plan based on your specific injuries.
Our goals are to help you:
- Reduce pain, swelling, and muscle spasms
- Restore movement in the neck and back
- Relieve pressure on irritated joints and nerves
- Heal injured muscles, ligaments, and soft tissues
- Sleep and complete daily activities more comfortably
- Return to work, exercise, and normal routines
- Reduce the risk of short-term injuries becoming long-term problems
We’ll also monitor how you respond to care and adjust your treatment plan as your pain decreases, movement improves, and your body begins to recover.
Get Checked After an Auto Injury
Don’t assume you are uninjured simply because your vehicle damage was minor or your pain did not begin immediately. An examination can help determine whether the accident injured the joints, discs, muscles, or nerves in your neck and back.
The sooner we identify the problem, the sooner we can begin helping you relieve the pain, restore your movement, and get back to feeling like yourself again.
Call us today to schedule your appointment.