Whiplash Injuries and Chiropractic Care - By: Mark Yacoub

The symptoms of whiplash? Generally, these include headaches, dizziness, neck and arm pain, decreased attention span, an inability to focus and fatigue; Some of them also suffer with irritability, sleep disturbances. These symptoms can be both very painful and downright debilitating to the whiplash sufferer.

In case the symptoms don't go away on their own, the doctor should be consulted for proper advice. Whiplash injury has also been reported to cause memory loss, irritability and poor concentration.

The earlier you establish the proper intervention, via chiropractic adjustments, the better your chances for a full recovery. Of course, chiropractic adjustments also help older whiplash injuries, but recovery is usually slower and care during the acute phase generally takes longer.

Chiropractic manage whiplash injuries with careful and precise neck adjustments, sometimes ice and rehabilitative exercises that are designed to address the injured neck and shoulder muscles and joints. This has been shown to be very effective in managing the symptoms of whiplash, particularly the headaches that often accompany this type of injury and provides all the aspects of the mechanisms of neck sprain; >chiropractic care in curing whiplash injuries is to optimize motion in the spine, treat the spinal discs, reduce muscle spasm and improve muscular strength. The suitable chiropractic treatment is unique to each whiplash injury and is directed at the primary dysfunctions detected during the chiropractic exam.

Chiropractic doctors commonly employ different chiropractic treatments for whiplash, often including:

1. Chiropractic Manipulation for Whiplash: The basic whiplash treatment for joint dysfunction, chiropractic adjustment or spinal manipulation involves the gentle movement or a short thrust of the injured joint into the direction in which it is restricted, done by a chiropractic doctor.

2. Muscle Relaxation or Stimulation as Whiplash Treatments: This chiropractic treatment technique involves gentle stretches to the muscle which has excessive tension or repeated contractions of the muscle that is inhibited. Vigorous stretches may be applied if the muscle is very tight by the chiropractic doctor.

3.Various exercises for Whiplash: like McKenzie exercises and Stabilization/Sensorimotor exercises are employed as part of chiropractic care for treatment of whiplash injuries.

About the Author

Mark Yacoub the Chiropractor at chiropracticfirst.co.uk has completed a five year course at the Anglo-European College of chiropractic in Bournemouth in 2002. He received a BSc (Hons) in Human Sciences with First Class Honours. After a one-year internship at the college student clinic he has qualified with a Master of Science in Chiropractic. Please click & visit us for regular chiropractic care

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