Short North Accident Injury Care

Archive for January, 2010

Patients who have chronic spinal pain syndromes and were under chiropractor care did a lot better than patients who took medicine or had acupuncture.

Patients who were a part of the study had pain for over 13 weeks. Each of the three groups of participants were treated with one type of care. There was acupuncture given to one group, medication to another, and chiropractic care was given to another group.

Questionnaires that were standardized were used to evaluate the participants. Participants completed these questionnaires when they started the study and again after 9 weeks of care. There was a comparison to the same questionnaires, of the results, that were administered to the same patients one year later.

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Researchers took great pains not to include those who were receiving a number of forms of care for their affliction. The aim was to have the results show the benefits of one type of care. Using this method, external factors would be minimized and the outcome should be completely based on the kind of care the patient had.

It was found that after one year, only those that received chiropractic care still noted significant improvement. Researchers found that patients in all three groups realized some short term benefits from whatever care they received. The group that received medication did not do as well as the group that received acupuncture.

The best results, however, were produced in the group that was the recipient of chiropractic care. The conclusion of the authors was that broad-based, beneficial short-term and long-term outcomes were enjoyed by patients with chronic mechanical pain syndromes who received spinal manipulation.

Chiropractic Care for Auto Accidents

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I see a variety of clients with injuries and pain of the back, neck and headaches. The reason for the symptoms, in many cases, are related to car accidents, or other types of personal injuries. Frequently, the questionable auto accidents happened in the previous years but the early signs were not considered important by the patient.

Most people try to get their cars fixed as soon as possible, but they don’t bother to see if they are alright themselves. Examples of this reasoning can be found in other scenarios, also. I used to know a woman who was proud of the fact that although she was a smoker, she never allowed smoking in her car since she wanted to keep it smelling fresh!

I’m not sure what the reason is for having these kind of thoughts. Many people dismiss the slight neck or back pain and headaches after they experience an auto accident. This thought process is flawed. Imagine if we didn’t care about other health problems like this.

The injuries resulting from whiplash type accidents are not simple. Muscles are pulled and ripped, sometimes ligaments can break partially or completely, a herniated disc can occur and the spine could be fractured as well.

Many mild to severe symptoms can be caused by these injuries of the neck and back. It’s bad enough when you experience pain in the back and neck over the short term, but over the long term it’s unbearable.

Even though there is a complex mechanism of injury in cases of whiplash, the usual spinal injuries that occur are following a well established path. Irritation of the ligaments and muscles within the injured area is the first symptom presented. Inflammation results from the irritation. Inflammation is not just to blame for a lot of the beginning symptoms that you feel, but it is also to blame for scar tissue development which causes your symptoms to be permanent or last forever.

Ongoing aches and pains as a result of an accident occur in roughly one out of four auto accident injuries.

In my chiropractic office in Columbus, Ohio I see the statistics become reality. Chiropractors can be of great help in treating back pain, neck pain and headaches that are caused by motor vehicle accidents. You should be examined, and treated if necessary, by your chiropractor if you want to make sure that you are not one of the 25% of people that do not recover from injuries sustained in a car accident.

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A Chiropractor treats injuries from a car accident.

When were you in a car accident?

Did a chiropractor assess you? If not, you should have this done. It’s always still possible to pursue this treatment.

Quite a few persons have been treated by my Columbus Chiropractic Office for back pain, headaches, and neck pain caused by car accidents. It may surprise you that we not only treat patients with recent injuries from auto accidents, but also those that had accidents that were dismissed as mild and not previously treated.

It has always seemed strange to me that people usually don’t look after themselves as well as they look after their cars. I’m not sure why so many people hold onto these types of thoughts. Slight neck pain, headaches and lower back pain are all too often minimized, overlooked, or brushed off as not something to worry about after an auto collision injury. This shouldn’t be the case. Can you imagine if other health concerns were treated so recklessly?

The injury triggers in whiplash related accidents are complicated. Discs can become herniated, fractures of the spine can occur, muscles stretch and tear and ligaments can often partially tear or even burst. There are numerous various symptoms that can cause pain in the neck or back, ranging in severity from an irritation that is small to a disability that is severe as a result of these injuries. Short-term back and neck pain is very distressing, but chronic back and neck problems are even more difficult to cope with.

While whiplash is a complex injury, the spinal injuries that result often show a common pattern. Muscles and ligaments at the injury location start feeling irritated. Inflammation results from the irritation. The inflammatory process is the cause of the majority of symptoms at the onset, and it also causes the development of scar tissue that can cause these symptoms to become permanent or chronic.

One quarter of auto accident victims develop chronic problems from their injuries. I frequently witness this statistic in reality in my Columbus, Ohio chiropractic office.

Car accidents often result in neck and back pain along with headaches, areas that chiropractors excel in caring for. To make sure that you are not part of the one-fourth of those people who do not recover completely from a car crash injury, see a chiropractor as soon as possible for examination and treatment.

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The benefits of chiropractic care for those who are afflicted with vertigo are discussed in a research report published in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research of November 8, 2006. Sixty patients that were diagnosed with vertigo by their doctors were given chiropractic care in the study; then the results were noted and published.

A feeling of spinning with dizziness characterizes the condition of vertigo. Light-headedness, nausea, and problems with balance are experienced by many sufferers due to the feeling of rotation or movement. There are no lab tests for vertigo, so diagnosis is normally based on the symptoms that patients describe. The study investigated a causal link between vertigo and the nervous system.

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The vast majority of patients reported having incurred a physical trauma before the spells of vertigo started. The patients in the study reported their injuries were incurred by auto accidents, sports injuries (such as skiing or bicycling), or slipping on ice. A notation was made that head or neck area trauma was suffered by all of these individuals.

Initial examinations of the 60 patients revealed that all had vertebral subluxations. So that there would be a consistent method of measuring subluxation findings and correction progress, analysis procedures were performed utilizing paraspinal digital infrared imaging.

All of the sixty subjects in this study received chiropractic care that was specific for subluxation correction. There was a positive response from all of the patients included in this study to that care, as shown by the results. There was a one- to six-month variation in the time frame for the responses. Within a half a year, 48 of the original 60 patients had no more symptoms. There was also better improvement shown by the twelve patients that were remaining with either frequency or severity in vertigo episodes.

There is a definite causal relationship between neck injury and spells of vertigo, as reported by the author of the study. It seems that utilizing IUCCA protocol, which is a form of chiropractic care, to correct the injury to the upper cervical spine, improves and/or reverses vertigo disorders.