The clock starts ticking immediately after you’ve been in a car accident. An auto accident is one of the most jarring situations any of us will experience in our lives. However, the aftershocks of an accident can continue long after the event if you’ve sustained any type of musculoskeletal injury. In many cases, people aren’t aware that they’ve sustained an injury until symptoms begin to show up hours, days, or weeks after an accident. Here at Freedom Chiropractic in Conroe, Texas, we encourage anyone who has been involved in an auto accident to see a chiropractor. Chiropractors are trained to detect misalignments and soft-tissue injuries that may go undetected following an accident. We can offer adjustments and therapeutic treatments that help to restore alignment, take pressure off an area, and reduce pain. Next, go a little deeper into the five reasons why you should see a chiropractor after an accident injury.

1. You May Be Able to Avoid Serious Treatments

There truly is something to be said for addressing an injury as soon as possible. What is an easily treatable sprain, strain, or misalignment today can turn into a chronic pain issue if it’s left untreated for too long. Untreated injuries can result in the need for extended recovery, complicated surgery, and other serious interventions. Chiropractic treatment gets to the root of the problem to help you avoid long-term complications.

2. You Might Have Hidden Injuries

Getting the “all clear” after being examined by a doctor following a car accident doesn’t necessarily mean that you don’t have any injuries. It simply means that serious injuries requiring emergency care have been ruled out. Doctors examining you following a car accident aren’t necessarily looking for torn muscles, torn ligaments, sprains, strains, bulging discs, and misalignments. However, these injuries can cause long-term pain and dysfunction if they aren’t detected. Chiropractors perform full-body evaluations to detect any signs of injury.

3. You Can Prevent Scar Tissue

This is a big one that most people never consider after being injured in auto accidents. If you have a wound, fracture, or breakage from an accident, you may assume that the healing is done once the injury is no longer visible. However, the truth is that there’s a good chance you’re living with scar tissue that is causing pain, inflammation, stiffness, or reduced range of motion. Scar tissue makes healing difficult. Chiropractors have a variety of techniques to help break up scar tissue to speed up healing.

Scar tissue prevents the body from restoring full function because oxygen and nutrients aren’t able to circulate in the area of the injury. This is why you often experience stiffness and pain that doesn’t resolve with traditional exercises. It’s necessary to break up the scar tissue to resume full blood flow to the injured area.

4. You May Be Able to Skip the Pain Medication

You may be understandably reluctant to take pain medication following a car accident. It’s no secret that our country is facing a serious opioid crisis caused by the overprescribing of pain medications. In some cases, personal and family histories cause patients to want to skip pain medications. Chiropractic intervention is strongly associated with a reduction in the need for pain medication. In studies, patients dealing with pain had half the risk of filling an opioid prescription if they were being treated by chiropractors.

5. You’ll Be Able to Properly Document Your Injuries

If you’re planning to seek compensation for pain, suffering, loss of income, or treatment costs following a car accident, it’s important to begin documenting injuries, diagnostic findings, and treatments as early as possible. A chiropractor can help you to keep records of your care for insurance and legal purposes. Waiting too long after an accident to try to pursue a claim can leave you without many options. As time passes, it becomes harder and harder to prove that the pain and dysfunction you’re experiencing are linked with the accident.

See a Chiropractor in Conroe, Texas After a Car Accident

Have you recently been in a car accident that has left you in pain? Start your path to relief by booking an appointment with Dr. Tony Brooks and the Freedom Chiropractic team. Our state-of-the-art office provides accident injury treatment for people experiencing:

  • Headaches.
  • Back pain.
  • Neck pain.
  • Shoulder pain.
  • Limb and extremity pain.
  • Stiffness.
  • Numbness.
  • Whiplash.
  • Inflammation.
  • Bulging discs.
  • Misalignments.
  • Mood, sleep, memory, or cognitive issues.

We’ll take your injuries seriously. Using state-of-the-art manual and instrument-assisted treatments for musculoskeletal and soft-tissue injuries, our team will address the root cause of your pain and dysfunction to restore full function, reactivate your body’s natural healing mechanisms, and help you reclaim your quality of life. Dr. Tony Brooks is a former Army Ranger, a graduate of the University of Southern California, a doctoral graduate of the University of Western States, and best-selling author of “Leave No Man Behind.” Dr. Brooks also holds advanced certification in whiplash and brain injury traumatology from the Spinal Research Institute of San Diego, certification in prenatal, perinatal, and Webster care from the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association, and Level 3 Medical Certification from the Titleist Performance Institute. Call (936) 756-3747 today to book your consultation with the Freedom Chiropractic team.