Auto / Work Related injures
Acupuncture for Auto / Work Related injures
It occurs without prior notice. One moment you are driving along happily, and the next, you are involved in a collision.
You may experience pain and discomfort, whether it is a minor fender-bender or a more severe accident. Immediate care can significantly improve your recovery and lower your risk of developing long-term health problems. Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) provide a safe, natural treatment that effectively treats your health concerns and improves your well-being after a car accident.
Common Injuries Following an Accident
After a car collision, there are several types of injuries that might happen. Some injuries and symptoms may manifest instantly, while others may take hours or even days to manifest. A car collision is not something to take lightly.
The following are common injuries that can occur:
Low-Speed Injuries: These occur when you are driving at a speed of less than ten miles per hour or are hit by another vehicle traveling at ten miles per hour or less. Muscle strains and seat belt bruising are the most common results of these accidents. Pain and stiffness often may develop within 12 to 36 hours of the impact; however, other symptoms may appear later.
High-Speed Injuries: These injuries happen when your car or another car is driving faster than 10 miles per hour. Injuries frequently can result from the body slamming against automotive components like the dashboard, window, or steering wheel. This type of collision often causes head, shoulder, or knee damage and many contusions, wrist fractures, neck sprains, and concussions.
Injury to the Cervical region (Whiplash): This form of injury happens when the neck is forced into motions that are too quick for the bones, ligaments, and muscles to handle. This injury is known as whiplash, a non-medical term for a strain or sprain of the neck resulting from a sudden rapid movement. Even a seemingly minor accident might result in soft tissue and musculoskeletal injuries like whiplash.
Whiplash Symptom Include:
Neck pain or stiffness
Headache
Dizziness
Back pain
Pain in your shoulders or arms
Other symptoms may include memory loss, poor concentration, nervousness and irritability, sleeplessness, or fatigue.
Treatment Option
It is important to seek care promptly for any injuries and symptoms immediately after and accident. It may be a difficult decision to choose the right form of care to address your pain and discomfort. But it is an important decision to make in order to keep current injuries from becoming chronic. Immediately after an accident, promptly seeking care for injuries and symptoms is important. Choosing the appropriate therapy to alleviate your pain and suffering may be challenging. However, it is important to prevent present injuries from becoming chronic.
The good news is that you can make your own decisions. Depending on the kind of injury, chiropractic, massage, physical therapy, and acupuncture are the most popular treatment modalities. It is also common for patients to combine various modalities in order to get quicker outcomes and be able to address various parts of an injury.
How Acupuncture Can Help
Acupuncture and Herbal medicine can successfully aid in healing soft-tissue injuries, relax the muscles, relieve painful symptoms, help your body regain its natural balance and vitality, and alleviate any stress and anxiety.
In the event of an accident, you may experience physical trauma that disrupts and restricts the flow of the Qi and blood resulting in pain, stiffness, and various other problems. Acupuncture stimulates the body’s self-healing and self-regulatory processes, bringing more blood flow to the treated region and acting as a magnet to increase blood flow. A regular blood flow is reestablished with acupuncture, restoring the muscle to its usual state of relaxation, flexibility, and decreased pain.
