Accidents and Trauma

By Dr. Alan Rosenthal

If you have been in an accident or suffered a trauma, you may be blocking off vital nerve messages to your body that are crucial for life and health, and you may not even be aware that this is happening. You should have your spine checked by a Chiropractor for subluxations. During the accident, any subluxations that were created in your spine often remain in your body and prevent you from healing properly.

That may be the reason why over half of all accident victims never completely recover from their injuries and may live on painkillers, physical therapy or even repeated surgery for years. Sometimes victims are told that they will have to live in pain for the rest of their lives!

Spinal Check-Ups

Since nearly any physical force will radiate to the skeletal system, spinal subluxations become very common. Anybody involved in any type of accident should have a spinal check-up. Chiropractic wellness care may make the difference between chronic pain and disability or healing, vitality, and true recovery.

Crisis Care vs. Chiropractic Care

Chiropractic wellness care works not to oppose emergency medical care but to enhance a person’s ability to healthy after trauma occurs. The first priority is to handle life threatening situations through medical care. However, afterward too many people fail to resolve their health issues because no care was performed after the crisis situation was over.

Unfortunately, millions of accident and traumas patients leave the hospital with just as much spinal and nerve dysfunction as when they went in. No wonder we commonly hear people say, “I haven’t been the same since my accident.” These people unfortunately have a very high incidence of pain and suffering months and years afterwards.

Trauma and Subluxations

Motor vehicle accident at 5 M.P.H. is enough to create vertebral subluxations. Although the person is not symptomatic at this period of time, the subluxations sustained as a result of the accident cause a crucial blockage of nerve supply to vital functions of the body. This is a classic example of where people will develop severe health problems weeks, months or even years after and will not connect their health problems to the accident.

Even if there are no obvious symptoms, anyone who has been in an accident needs to have a Chiropractic check-up. The damage from spinal subluxations may take months or years to appear and a simple spinal check-up today could save an accident victim from pain and suffering later.

Optimal Health = Optimum Function

Whole Health Family Chiropractic in Thousand Oaks, California has a team of highly specialized health professionals that will help you reach your Health and Wellness goals. Chiropractic wellness care improves your body’s natural ability to heal and enhances your overall quality of life. Imagine living a healthy and holistic lifestyle free of asthma, low back pain, ear infections, menstrual pain, headaches, ADHD, and many others. Take the first step toward better living and contact us today at (805) 449-0061.

Dr. Alan Rosenthal also dedicates his time to health awareness and education within his community. He offers free lectures and workshops to businesses and organizations. If you would like to schedule Dr. Rosenthal to speak at your next event or to view his list of chiropractic lecture topics, please go to Free Lecture Topics.