If you have been in a car accident, your first stop should be the emergency room if you are injured. But after that, or if your injuries don’t warrant emergency care, it’s time to head to the chiropractor.
After a car accident, a chiropractor can help you to assess and evaluate any injuries that may have. Going to a chiropractor after a car accident can help relieve pain, and help your body heal.
To help, we’ve compiled a list of ways you should prepare for going to the chiropractor after a car accident.
Understand the benefits of chiropractic care after a car accident
While there are many ways that visiting a chiropractor can help car accident victims, it can help to review a few.
Diagnosing an Injury
Sometimes a whiplash injury may show up days after the accident. In fact, for some car accident injuries, the chiropractor knows there’s a problem before the pain even arrives!
As we say
on our website, “The full extent of the physical impact of an auto accident on an individual may not be immediately realized.
Therefore you may feel all right immediately after the accident but then start to feel worse in the days following the event. For example, you may develop headaches, neck pain, or other symptoms of potential injuries. In fact, more often than not, victims may not even realize they have an injury for days or even months into the accident.”
Relieving Pain
After a car accident, a chiropractor can often relieve your pain. Spinal manipulation can help with neck pain, back pain, and even pain in your arms or legs.
Healthline discusses a study that found that car accident victims who visited a chiropractor were less likely to need a prescription pain medication than those who did not. They concluded that “undergoing chiropractic treatment may lower your need to take these pain relievers.”
Financial protection
At the chiropractor, car accident claim information can be gathered for the insurance companies. This can help protect you financially, and help make sure that any medical bills get covered correctly.
Find a car accident injury chiropractor
Make sure that the chiropractor you choose has experience in treating car accident injuries. As we’ve discussed
on our blog, “Car accidents are tricky, because they are so violent that the cause of the pain and damage can take place in any part of the body, and the source of the pain may be far away from the location where the pain is manifesting. Knowing the ins and outs of car accident trauma is an essential skill for your chiropractor.”
When you are making an appointment to see a chiropractor, ask specifically about their experience in treating folks who have been involved in a car accident. Be certain that they have
experience both treating, and documenting trauma injuries.
Move quickly
You’ll want to move quickly after your accident to make an appointment with your chiropractor. Car accident claims and personal injury cases often hang on the medical care a person gets medical care after a car crash.
We recommend seeing a chiropractor within 72 hours of an auto accident.
If you’ve been in an accident, don’t delay!
Schedule Your Visit today! 
