Did you know there are over 6 million car accidents a year? Did you know 1 person dies every 13 minutes from one of these accidents? Did you also know the different ranges of trauma associated with a car accident?
When you get rear-ended, T-Boned, Side swiped, head on collision - it doesn't matter how hard the impact - you still suffer damages to your body. Studies have shown in an 8mph accident, you can sustain permanent damage to your neck and back. Have you noticed some walk away in a 60mph without pain, while other walk out in a 5mph with tremendous pain? It all depends on the direction of the accident and how you were positioned.
You need to make sure you check with a local expert in car accidents to make sure you are safe and ok even in a low speed accident. There has never been a study that showed if you were in a tiny accident with no car damage - that you should have no pain. I repeat, there has never been a study that shows small accident means small pain. Cars can take more damage than we can. We bend and break, they just break period.
At Mountain View Chiropractic, we specialize in examining all injuries related to a car accident. You can't go in and just get a pain prescription wishing it to go away, it doesn't. Receiving the right care of Chiropractic, Massage therapy with acupuncture will take care of your pains. The most important period is 3 days after the accident. That is your window to get treatment. 3 days! Been in an accident or know someone, get the right professional to examine your body. You wouldn't want a foot doctor to look at your heart do you? See a Chiropractor who specializes in car accidents.
Drive safely!
