Hey guys, Dr. Jon Dandridge here and I want to go over a few very common symptoms, very common issues that we see for people who have experienced car accidents.
Car Accident Force on Your Body Significant
One of the first things that I like to just get people to think about is like what really happens when we are in a car accident. And I think when we’re really honest with ourselves, we have to realize that look, that impact that force can be so great that it destroys and damages the steel and the aluminum and all the metals and everything that makes the car very strong, it sometimes can destroy all of that. And so as passengers in the vehicle, we often we have to realize that those forces that are absorbed by the vehicle, are also absorbed by our bodies, right. And so if it’s strong enough to destroy steel, what is happening inside of our own body, what is the impact that it’s having on our spine, right, our spine can be very strong, very resilient, but it can also be very vulnerable, depending on the situations that we find ourselves in. And so one of the most common things that we see after somebody has been an accident is trauma to the neck, right, we know what a normal spine should look like, we know the curvatures that it should have, we know the alignment that it should have. And anytime we deviate from that, that we will suffer consequences at some point, whether it’s right now or in the future, it will happen. And so the car accident oftentimes is that catalyst that starts this, this downward spiral of degenerative changes in someone’s spine. And so anytime, like I said, anytime we deviate from the normal structure that our spine should have, and maintain throughout life, there’s it sets us up for premature degeneration, those joints can no longer be as healthy as they could. Right.
Proper Car After a Car Accident is Critical
And so sometimes that car accident, whether it’s whether it’s small, whether it right, whether it’s not severe, or it’s very severe, can oftentimes be that catalyst that just sets us in that direction. And when we, the sad thing is, is that oftentimes people will go to the hospital right after they’ve been in an accident, they may go to some type of emergency care center, right to get checked out. And they’ll oftentimes do X rays, they’re looking for what looking for dislocations, any kind of fracture, obviously very important, we need to know that those things are not present. But that’s not that’s not that’s not it, right? If we had if we do not have a fracture, if we do not have a gross dislocation, that does not mean that there are no problems, right, and as chiropractors, we look at the details, we want to see that the curvatures are ideal, we want to see the the alignment lines up, we want to see that all the joints can move fluidly, right throughout life continuously and not with restriction and compression, and tension. All this stuff matters. And so with with car accidents, again, it can start to set the tone it can start to be it can be a catalyst to disrupt or damage the individual joints of the spine, the alignment, the curvatures, etc. And so when that stuff is present, although there is no fracture, although there is no dislocation, there still is a problem that will eventually create symptoms at some point. And so if you have been in a car accident, if you feel like you know what, I’ve just never been the same after that injury, then give us a call. We will look at your spine through that lens through that structural lens to see hey, where are there areas of imbalance? Where are there areas where the joints don’t move? Well, that’s very important information. And that’s what we worked with our clients to help improve. Okay, that’s simple.
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