Auto Accident Injury

At Chandler Pain Clinic we treat auto injuries differently, by focusing on its cause.

Auto accident injuries are some of the most challenging injuries that we, or any other doctor’s office, face in our practice. The reason being that there is such a huge exchange of forces involved in the collision, you have vehicles weighing 4,000 to 6,000 lbs. traveling at 10-70 mph abruptly stopping in a fraction of a second. That is a lot of energy and it has to go somewhere, a good deal of it enters the bodies of the occupants inside the car. Imagine a pool table with billiard balls on it. The player strikes the cue ball and it in turn strikes a numbered ball, all of the cue ball’s energy and speed goes into the numbered ball and the cue ball as a result stops dead. The vehicle on the receiving end of the collision is the numbered ball and all of the energy of the striking vehicle goes into it. A lot of the energy is absorbed by modern bumpers, crumple zones and air bags, but there is still plenty left over to injury the occupants.

That is why auto accident injuries are termed as ‘whiplash’ injury, because the force of the collision striking a seated person causes their spine to be whipped back and forth like the tip of a whip. This ‘whiplash’ motion strains and can even tear the muscles and ligaments, it can also damage and shift the vertebral bones that make up the spine (subluxations). The spine is a very vulnerable area of the body because it houses and protects the spinal cord, which along with the brain, is part of the central nervous system. This system literally runs the entire body. This can result in severe injures of the neck, back and shoulders; nerve damage, neck pain and stiffness, headaches, shoulder pain and weakness, low back pain and spasm. As well as, causing neurological symptoms; dizziness, fatigue, forgetfulness, unfocused, and aggressive behavior. Also, the longer you have these injuries, the more established and permanent they become. At which time, the injury becomes chronic and harder to resolve.

What Chandler Pain Clinic does is remove the pain and help repair the injuries as quickly as possible. We do this by using combinations of Chiropractic, physical therapy, massage and Active Release Technique (A.R.T.) and focusing our efforts on the actual cause of the symptoms, rather then just treating the symptoms alone. Pain and other symptoms are your body’s alarm systems tell us that something is wrong. If all the efforts are directed at the alarm and not the actual fire, the house burns down. If we make positive changes at the specific injured site we can fix the pain by fixing the problem, not just masking it with drugs. Correcting the vertebral misalignments resolves the nerve pressure causing the headache, removing the scar tissue causing the constant muscle spasm, removing the joint irritation causing the inflammation and fixing the shoulder weakness. When you treat and remove the cause of the injury, your body, which is the best doctor in the world, is able to heal those structures. This is the only way for a permanent resolution with any injury. For if you treat the effects of the injury, the symptoms, and not the actual cause, the pain will just keep coming back again and again.

This is how our clinic is different, by fixing the problems, not managing them and allowing them to get worse over time.