Neck Injury, Whiplash Injury
If you have sustained a neck injury or whiplash injury from an auto accident or a bicycle accident, we can likely help you. Evergreen Chiropractic specializes in treating whiplash injuries. Whiplash injury, which is very common in car accidents, occurs when the body reacts to a deceleration or acceleration force by hyperflexion or hyperextension of the neck. They occur, in part, due to the fact that the muscles do not have enough time to brace themselves.
If you have been involved in a car accident, whiplash injuries need to be taken very seriously. Because symptoms can take weeks or even months to manifest, it is easy to be fooled into thinking that you are not as seriously injured as you really are.
Common neck injury and whiplash injury complaints may include:
- neck pain
- radiating pain into the shoulder
- reduced mobility
- elbow pain, wrist pain or hand pain
- lower back pain
- headaches
- fatigue
- upper back pain
- shoulder pain
- low back pain
Due to the fact that numerous factors play into the overall whiplash trauma, such as direction of impact, speed of the vehicles involved, as well as the sex, age and physical condition of the individual whiplash victim, whiplash symptoms commonly have a delayed onset, often taking weeks or months to become evident.
Neck pain is the single most common complaint reported by our patients who have experienced whiplash trauma. Often the pain radiates across the shoulders, up into the head and down between the shoulder blades. Neck injury tends to affect all of the tissues in the neck, including the facet joints and discs between the vertebrae, as well as all of the muscles, ligaments and nerves.