Traumatic forces sustained in a car accident easily wrench the muscles, vertebrae and discs in your neck out of place. The sudden injury, called whiplash, causes immense pain and stiffness to spread through your head, neck, back and shoulders. Whiplash can even cause shooting, burning or tingling pain to run up and down your arms when compressed nerves are involved. Thankfully, you can receive whiplash treatment from a Tacoma chiropractor to fully recover from this painful injury.

Treatment Available for Patients from Tacoma

Muscle Knots

Sudden deceleration that occurs in an auto accident aggressively stretches and tears fibers within the muscles attached to your neck. The damaged muscle fibers tighten up in response and tend to remain that way through the healing process. Your chiropractor can use manual manipulations and massage therapy to loosen up these fibers. Chiropractic techniques release pressure to relax muscle fibers and facilitate healing.

Cervical Misalignments

If the deceleration does not cause a disc to slip out of place, tight muscles can pull the vertebrae out of alignment over time. If this happens, the cushion between the cervical spinal structures can slip out of place and even rupture. Cervical misalignments and slipped discs cause an enormous amount of pain that makes it difficult to sustain normal activity levels. Chiropractors use manual adjustments to bring the spinal column back into alignment.

Nerve Entrapment

Both tight muscles and misaligned skeletal structures can trap nerves between two solid areas. These trapped nerves will send pain signals through the body nearly constantly until release is achieved. Thankfully, chiropractic whiplash treatment naturally relieves pain and discomfort caused by nerve entrapment.

Contact Proctor Chiropractic Today!

After sustaining whiplash injuries in an auto accident, you should try to seek chiropractic care as soon as possible for the best chance at a full recovery. You can contact Proctor Chiropractic for an appointment immediately after sustaining the auto accident injury. Our clinic serves patients throughout the Tacoma, Federal Way, Lakewood, Gig Harbor, Proctor and Fife, WA areas.