Care After An Auto Accident In Texarkana

The CDC reports that more than 2 million people visit the ER every year for treatment of injuries from car accidents.

Of those people who go to the ER, they’re often prescribed pain medications and muscle relaxers OR told to take some over the counter pain relievers at home. Medications can often help the symptoms without helping the underlying injury heal properly.

Many multiples of those that go to the hospital don’t go because they suffer less than life threatening injuries from crashes.

Often people suffer some pain and other symptoms, but aren’t sure what to do or what doctor to see for their injuries.

Unfortunately, many that are hurt never see a chiropractor in Texarkana for their injuries because they either believe they will be ok and heal up on their own or think the ER did everything that can be done to help them.

Accident victims can have a variety of musculoskeletal and soft tissue injuries to so many different parts of their bodies ranging from concussions to muscle spasms, sciatica type pain, ‘pinched’ nerves, disc injuries, neck (often called whiplash), back, shoulder, arms, hips, and/or legs.

The pain and symptoms typically worsen over the first few days to few weeks.

At times, symptoms aren’t really felt until an injured person does something to put stress on the injured area.

Symptoms might occur when you try to lift something, do housework, yardwork or some other task that you can normally do easily.

It’s also important to note that some people won’t feel any symptoms initially after an accident.

This can happen for a variety of reasons ranging from…

• people having a very high pain tolerance,
• taking pain relievers/steroids/muscle relaxers/etc (possibly even from other problems),
• to kids that often don’t continue to feel pain OR can’t really tell the parents what they’re feeling.

People can be hurt from even seemingly minor impacts.

This can occur due to a variety of factors.

A partial list of these factors that increase your risk of injury include:

• Older individuals
• Metabolic disorders (diabetes, breathing problems (asthma, COPD, etc), many other diseases)
• Congenital (birth) defects or developmental abnormalities of the spine or another area
• Degenerative disc disease and/or spinal stenosis
• ‘Arthritis‘
• Disc protrusion, bulge, or herniation
• Rheumatoid arthritis or other various types of arthritis
• Ankylosing spondylitis
• Scoliosis
• Prior neck surgery
• Prior upper back surgery
• Prior low back surgery
• Prior musculoskeletal surgeries of the arms or legs
• Osteoporosis
• Paraplegia or quadriplegia
• Past spinal or extremity injury
• People who are taller or shorter than average
• Heavier people
• Plus… how you were positioned in the vehicle prior to impact, angle of impact, did you see it coming, and many other factors.

The fact is that our cars are built out of metal/materials to take a hit by another vehicle, but we are not. You can be injured in very low speed accidents and of course in high speed ones as well.

The most common injuries are to your muscles, joints, bones or connective tissues.

Far too many people are injured in a collision and never heal up properly so they continue experiencing pain, stiffness, tension/other types of headaches, and other symptoms often for a lifetime.

Fortunately, there is a solution to help you recover from your injuries.

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