Fraud Blocker Benefits of Chiropractic Treatment for Whiplash | Raleigh Specific Chiropractic

7721 Six Forks Road, Suite 138, Raleigh, NC 27615

(919) 846-7004

Benefits of Chiropractic Treatment for Whiplash

Benefits of Chiropractic Treatment for Whiplash

Whiplash is no fun. The effects of a serious case of whiplash can have long lasting effects on your day to day mobility and comfort for the rest of your life if not treated properly. Thankfully, chiropractic treatment can help alleviate the residual pain from whiplash and get you back to full health in no time. There are actually a various number of chiropractic methods used for treating whiplash, such as;

  • Lifestyle Changes
  • Chiropractic Manipulation
  • Exercises
  • Muscle Stimulation/Relaxation

The most common treatment for whiplash is chiropractic manipulation. Often times your joints are misaligned or moving in the wrong direction due to the force of the whiplash. A chiropractor can manipulate your joints and spine by using short thrusts in the desired direction. Slow controlled mobilizing movement is also used as an alternative to thrusting.

Certain types of exercise can also be recommended by dentists to treat whiplash. Mckenzie movements are designed to help guide your discs back in line, and can be done at home eventually to allow the patient to be an active participant in his or her recovery. There are other exercises that are also designed to correct faulty movement patterns which are putting stress on the spine or neck. These train the nervous system to be more controlled and can be used for minor or major injuries.

In addition to posture correcting exercise, a chiropractor might recommend some lifestyle changes related to the strain you are putting on your body. They will equip you with at home techniques you can perform to reduce stress on your body, and recommend that you stay away from stressful activities for awhile.

Another highly effective chiropractic method used to treat whiplash is muscle relaxation and stimulation. Whiplash often leaves patients with serious muscle strains in their neck chest or back, and stimulation and relaxation of these muscles can help them recover faster. This is done by gently stretching the affected muscles and massaging them or using finger pressure and pressure point techniques to alleviate stress and tension.

Whiplash can be a very debilitating and demoralizing thing to suffer through. It limits your mobility and leaves you in constant pain all day in some cases. Thankfully a chiropractor has all the tools in their bag to speed up your recovery process as much as possible. You don’t have to sit around all day in a neck brace waiting for your neck to heal when you can go the chiropractor and get an adjustment and/or a massage and some helpful exercises to perform. If you have whiplash, going to visit a chiropractor is probably the first thing you should write down on your to-do list for these reasons.