What Is The Best Whiplash Injury Treatment?

How Is Whiplash Best Treated In Texarkana?

Whiplash type injuries are often caused by car accidents.

Whiplash symptoms vary depending on what is injured.

The severity of Whiplash Injury also varies from person to person. We’ll consider the non-life threatening and non emergency treatments in this post…

People injured in an accident often choose to use over the counter pain relief medications like ibuprofen (Motrin, Advil) or naproxen (Aleve, Naprosyn) at home with the hope that their symptoms will go away on their own over time.

If you see a medical doctor at the ER, urgent care, or your family doctor then you might be prescribed prescription medications that could include prescription pain relievers, muscle relaxers, and/or steroids depending on what the doctor prescribes in your case.

Whiplash Treatment Has Changed, A Lot

Many years ago, most whiplash injuries were often treated with immobilization in a cervical collar.

This resulted in greater problems for the injured because the soft tissue that is commonly injured heals in large part due to proper motion.

Braces prevent motion and the scar tissue will generally heal much weaker and stiffer in this case. It also lead to increases in ‘pain’ nerves branching into the healing injury which ultimately increases pain and chronic pain.

Loss of movement, stiffer scar tissue, and greater pain… fortunately we’ve discovered a better treatment option.

We now know that early movement helps the injured soft tissues heal better.

This is one of the many reasons that chiropractic care helps people suffering from whiplash injuries.

Medications can help Whiplash symptoms.

Chiropractic Treatment helps Whiplash Injuries in many other ways.

Chiropractors use a variety of physical treatments and therapies to help reduce pain, improve muscle spasms, headaches, and nerve related problems from musculoskeletal injuries.

These treatments often include things like… therapy, interferential, traction, massage, heat, ice, ultrasound, stretching / gentle exercises, and the adjustment for which chiropractors are most well known.

An experienced chiropractor will use more caution initially when dealing with most whiplash patients so that as you recover different treatments will be used appropriate for that stage of healing.

The primary goal of Chiropractic Treatment is to help the injured soft tissues heal as quickly as possible, but even more importantly to help the torn tissues heal better with better strength and flexibility.

This better soft tissue healing results in fewer future problems.

Unfortunately chronic pain – even lifelong pain, is experienced by many people after a motor vehicle accident.

It’s always better to treat whiplash injuries early rather than late. Even so, chiropractic has demonstrated that it can help even chronic pain from whiplash injuries.

Are you experiencing injuries from a car accident in Texarkana?

Email or call us at 903-793-1084., we are here to help you recover.