Auto Injury Chiropractor Eugene Oregon

Auto Injury & Car Accident Chiropractor

If you have suffered a car accident, it’s essential you get checked, even if you are not in pain. Visit your car accident chiropractor today at Cascade Health Center.

There are a lot of people that end up with whiplash injuries after a car accident. Within days of the accident, they may experience a decreased range of motion, pain, headaches, and tightness around the neck and shoulders. At Cascade Health Center, we are experts in detecting and treating car accident injuries. We are Eugene’s Auto Injury Expert!

As you may know, most of the bones of the body are connected to each other through only one joint. Knuckle, ligaments, and muscles move the bones at the joints. If there were a bad design because of one single joint, this would not allow the spine to have stability or freedom of motion.

Whenever this happens, either because of a small cause or something bigger such as a car accident, it’s time to visit a chiropractor.

At Cascade Health Center, our car accident chiropractor provides a safe alternative to treat this type of symptoms through medical massages. Through these massages, your injured muscles or dislocated joints can be adjusted helping you to improve and decrease the pain.  There are a lot of benefits from chiropractic treatment. The majority of people that have bad posture or an injury surely get better within a short period.

We also give some adjustments that work for the prevention of injuries, as we all provide some recommendations for your health problems.

Early Diagnosis Can Prevent Long Term Chronic Injuries

Waiting for the pain to appear can only aggravate your injury. We’ve had patients in Eugene that visited us with neck pain without being sure of the cause, and had found out it was related to a car accident that happened a long time ago.

We help your body by supporting its natural healing process; the early diagnosis and treatment can avoid complications in the future. On your first visit, the doctor will perform a physical examination, and depending on his findings, he might send additional exams like an x-ray. All tests and exams get performed at the Cascade Health Center. As a multidisciplinary center, we count with different tools, specialists for different types of treatments, and exams.

Your Decision Can Determine Your Health In The Future

So don’t wait and visit us at the Cascade Health Center. Even if you don’t have injuries, you’ll get the peace of mind of being okay and receive a relaxing chiropractic adjustment session to feel like new.

Chiropractic Adjustments After a Car Accidents

One of the best treatments you can receive after a car accident is chiropractic adjustments. A car accident chiropractor revises the state of your neck and checks for whiplash injury.

While doctors prescribe painkillers to relieve your pain, you can benefit from chiropractic adjustments to help heal mild and severe injuries without the use of drugs. A car accident chiropractor performs adjustments to relieve the pressure on the muscles and nerves, and also aligns back the spine. Additionally, we may send you some exercises to practice at home so that you can recover faster.

Understanding Whiplash

Although whiplash injury can break (fracture) a bone, fractures from whiplash trauma are quite rare. Whiplash trauma primarily injures the joints of the neck. A joint is where a bone meets a bone. Joints allow the bones to move with respect to each other. Ligaments hold the bones together at the joint.

Ligaments also stop the bones from moving too far. When the bones are moved too far, the ligaments are injured. Ligament injury is called a sprain. Whiplash injury moves the bones of the neck too far apart, resulting in neck joint ligament injury (sprain).

Muscles cross the joints. Muscles generate the forces required to move the bones at the joint. If the movement of the joint is too far, not only the ligaments, but also the muscles will be injured. A muscle injury is called a strain. Whiplash trauma can injure both the ligaments (sprain) and the muscles (strain).

Most of the bones of the body connect with each other through only one joint, like a knuckle in a finger. The knuckle is a joint, held together by ligaments and using muscles to move the bones at the joint. However, a single joint for the bones of the spine would be a bad design because a single joint would not allow the spine to have its required strength, stability, and freedom of motion.

Notice that a knuckle joint in your finger only moves in one plane of motion, forward and backward. Notice that the same knuckle joint does not move side to side. In addition, the joints of the knuckles are not very strong because they do not have to bear weight. In contrast, notice how your spine can move in many directions. The spine can move forward and backward, it can move side to side (bend left and right), and it can turn left and right (rotation). The spine also transmits the weight of our head, arms, chest, and abdomen. In addition to these tasks, arguably the most important function of the bones of the spine is to protect the spinal cord and the nerves that control the function of our entire body. The spinal nerves exit the spinal cord between the joints of the bones of the spine.

The engineering marvel that allows our spines to have such a large diversity of movement, the strength to bear weight, and the responsibility of protecting the spinal cord and the spinal nerves, is largely due to the unique design of the bones of the spine, called the vertebrae. The vertebrae has three joints, not just one, and the three joints are arranged in the shape of a triangle.

The large joint in the front of the vertebrae (top oval in the drawing below) is called the disc. It is the disc joint that is primarily responsible for bearing the weight of our bodies. The two joints in the back of the vertebrae are called facet joints. It is the facet joints that control the direction of vertebrae movement.

The neck has 7 movable vertebrae; the entire spine has 24.

The spinal cord lives in the center of the triangle of the three joints, and the spinal nerves exit between the disc joint and the facet joints.

What Causes Whiplash Injury & Pain

Whiplash injuries have been extensively studied and researched. There are literally thousands of medical and scientific studies describing every aspect of whiplash injury.

It has been firmly established for nearly two decades that the primary whiplash injury is an inertial injury to the soft tissues (ligaments and muscles) of the facet joints and disc joint of the neck. (Pain, 1993)

With rare exceptions, when we need a cavity filled in a tooth, the nerve to the tooth is rendered pain free with an injection of an anesthetic. Anesthesia stops the pain signal from reaching the brain.

For decades, whiplash researchers have been determining the tissue sources of whiplash injury pain, especially for chronic whiplash injury pain. The researchers inject anesthesia into various tissues of the neck to see where the pain is coming from. They can precisely position the anesthetic needle into the exact tissue for assessment by using a motion x-ray machine, called a fluoroscope. When the injection stops the patient’s pain, they know that tissue was responsible for the pain. This protocol has been used to anesthetize the disc joint, the facet joints, the spinal muscles, the spinal nerves, and more, using conscious live patients suffering from chronic whiplash injury pain.

The results have been remarkably consistent. The primary tissue source for chronic whiplash injury pain is the ligaments of the facet joints of the lower neck. The second most common source for chronic whiplash injury pain is the disc joints of the lower neck.

Interestingly, the primary tissue source for chronic whiplash injury headache was the ligaments of the facet joints of the upper part of the neck. Failure to get treatment that fixes this problem could lead to ongoing unresolved pain.

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