Best Way To Treat A Whiplash Injury

People complaining of Whiplash are often seen as suspicious with fraudulent intentions, just seeking an insurance payout after a road traffic accident or incident at work. For any of us that have been unfortunate enough to suffer a Whiplash injury, we know that financial compensation is the furthest thing from our minds. We just want relief from the pain and to regain the ability to move our head, arms an upper body as we could before hand.

There are a few familiar traits that go hand in hand with this condition. Unfortunately, anxiety, depression and a sharp change in mood are often seen in patients suffering from whiplash. The pain and lack of mobility affect absolutely everything you do. Unlike some other musculoskeletal injuries where you may be able to get into a position that offers some level of comfort, Whiplash is quite different.

We move our heads continually in our day to day lives. Even things as simple as speaking on the telephone become a chore, as we tilt our heads or flick our hair without giving it a second thought. Perhaps we might now begin to appreciate just how much we do actually move all those muscles that we take for granted.

How Doctors might treat Whiplash

Doctors and other medical professionals are keen to prescribe various forms of analgesia (pain relief), such as over the counter medication like Paracetamol, Ibuprofen or a combination of the two, ensuring correct management of the doses so as not to bring on other problems. This may be followed by advice to rest or perhaps just take it easy but remain mobile.

Alleviating Pain is clearly a good idea, but we need to understand the pain and its purpose.

Why do we get pain with Whiplash

Pain is a signal the brain gives us after it receives a message from our nervous system that something is wrong, so subduing pain is not the answer unless we deal with the original problem.

During a Whiplash injury, the head is typically forced to move violently back and forth or side to side in such a manner that the vertebrae in the neck hyperextend. This causes the muscles in the neck to react with their natural instinct and go into spasm, the purpose of which is to hold the joints within the neck tightly to prevent any further injury.

The vertebrae may well have been forced out of alignment during the hyperextension. This means that the balanced pressure on the intervertebral disc changes and the disc can bulge, pressing on the nerves. The impinged nerve along with the muscle spasm are the source of pain, which need to be treated to deal effectively with any whiplash injury.

What happens when Whiplash isn’t treated

It’s not unusual for people to believe they have recovered from a Whiplash Injury, only to find themselves suffering from other problems later on.

  • Headaches
  • Migraines
  • Frozen shoulder
  • Tinnitus
  • Restricted head movement
  • Recurring neck pain

These are all symptoms that can be the result of an untreated Whiplash injury. They are sometimes called referred pain, as you don’t necessarily experience the discomfort at the source of the problem.

The best way to treat a Whiplash Injury

So we can see that it is crucial to long term recovery that we deal with the mechanical and physical problems of Whiplash, removing the cause of our pain, rather than masking them with analgesics.

Using a combination of therapies is by far the best way to treat Whiplash injuries. Interferential Electro Stimulation Therapy is a non invasive therapy that penetrates through the skin into the deeper lying tissues, encourages blood flow, promotes healing and relieves pain. This is the first step after an initial consultation to evaluate the patients condition. Then, Spinal alignment is performed to correctly replace any misaligned vertebrae back into position, restoring the intervertebral discs to their natural form. This treatment will release pressure from any nerves, relaxing the muscles in spasm and allowing your brain-body lines of communication to let your body begin to repair itself properly.

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