3 Ways Our Tampa Chiropractic Clinic Can Assist After Your Holiday Uber Accident
Uber is a convenient way to travel—especially when on holiday. It is user-friendly, reliable, and frees you to explore spontaneously. Uber takes extra care to do background checks on their drivers and monitor all trips on their platform, but accidents happen—and they can leave you in a lot of pain!
You should always be checked out thoroughly by a medical professional after an accident to rule out fractures or internal injuries. Some bruising, pain, and stiffness are expected, but prolonged discomfort isn’t. Neck injuries are the most common car accident injuries you might suffer as a passenger, but chest or limb injuries—including sprains and bruising—are common, too. The good news is that chiropractic care is an effective treatment for these types of injuries and helps in three simple—but effective—ways.
3 Ways Chiropractic Care Helps After a Car Accident
You can find immediate relief with over-the-counter pain medication, but the healthiest approach is to understand the root cause of the problem and treat it. Chiropractic care offers a drug-free, effective approach to healing after an Uber accident in the following ways:
Your body experiences extreme pressure and forces during a car accident—even a minor one takes its toll on your neck and can cause small misalignments in your joints and spine. These misalignments cause friction, inflammation, and stiffness in the area.
Your chiropractor will carefully examine your spine and use targeted spinal manipulation therapy to realign your vertebrae. You might feel some pressure and hear some pops or clicks as the natural alignment of your spine is restored—that's normal.
A common complaint after accidents is stiffness and tension around your joints. Once your chiropractor has worked on your joints and spine through careful manipulations, you should be able to move them much more easily.
Your muscles also tense up during an accident, and muscles around injured or misaligned joints don’t function optimally. Manual therapy (specific massage) encourages blood flow to the area, which supports healing, relieves swelling, and restores ease of movement.
Your chiropractor will teach you how to stretch and exercise to maintain your renewed range of motion and keep your joints flexible—homework is likely.
The manual therapy, manipulations, stretches, and exercises that your chiropractor guides you through restoring the balance and natural movement and functioning of your spine, joints, and soft tissue. The result? Less tension and pain—naturally.
As a result, another benefit of chiropractic care for pain management is less dependence on prescription—or over-the-counter—pain medications. While effective, these drugs often have serious side effects that impact your health—and mask the root of the problem.
When you travel, unexpected things can—and usually do—happen. But chronic neck or joint pain should not be your lasting souvenir from your holiday. Luckily, our back doctors in Tampa can help! Contact the Tampa Spine and Wellness team, and we’ll craft an individualized treatment plan that supports your natural healing and pain relief—so you can start planning your next adventure!
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