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Whiplash

What is Whiplash?
Have you ever had pain in your neck from your heading jerking forward or backward? That is what whiplash is. A lot of people believe that whiplash only has to do with vehicle accidents. This is not true. Anytime your head is jerked in a rough motion forward or backwards you can get whiplash.

Four Major Types of Injury Occur

Muscle Injury
In most cases your muscles get stretched when you have an accident. As a result of this it can cause some swelling and sensitivity to your muscles that are in your shoulders or your neck.

Nerve Injury
Your nerves can be injured also. When your muscles get stretched so do your nerves, which cause them to be pinched. In most cases the reasoning for a pinched nerve is that either your headrest is not in the right spot, or your head was somehow turned during the whiplash.

Joint Injury
Since your joints are what let your bones move and keep your neck straight; your joints may be injured as well. If they are you will have a lot of pain in your shoulders and your arms.

Disc Injury
Discs are basically spacers that go in between your vertebrae. Whiplash can make your discs herniated, bulge, or even rupture which can bring pain or nerve irritation.

Whiplash does not just happen with car accidents. Many things can cause whiplash. For instance you can occur whiplash in any sports event, falls and slips, and even while you are out having fun at an amusement park on a roller coaster.

Symptoms of Whiplash

• Pain in your NeckConstant Headaches or Migraines
• Getting dizzy
• If your vision is impaired or blurry
• "Pins and needles," Feeling numb
• If you aren't as mobile

How Can Chiropractic Care Help?
It is important that you know that not only do you need to get treated for the pain, but you need to be treated for what is causing the pain. Dr. Clayman is a great chiropractor and has been specially trained to find exactly where your pain is coming from. Dr. Clayman can look over your entire health record and do an examination on you to figure out if this is a problem that happened many years back or if there are on any other physical problems you have.

1. With a Chiropractor you can gain flexibility and mobility and get rid of some of your pain
2. With your flexibility and mobility going faster you will also heal faster.
3. The best thing you can do to treat whiplash is seek a chiropractor
4. Going to a chiropractor is a great way to fix your neck curve and not need to get surgery or drugs to do so.

Whiplash Facts

• You do not need surgery or drugs to fix the forward curve in your neck, all you need is a chiropractor
• Almost all car accidents that occur in the rear are between ½ mile to 5 ½ mph
• Even at 5 mph a crash can make your soft tissue have damage. The reason is because your head accelerates almost 2 ½ times quicker than your vehicle.
• About 10% of people that have whiplash will have disabilities and a huge percentage will have chronic symptoms from it.