You know that minor car accidents in San Diego can cause neck pain. Extreme car crashes in San Diego can even result in death. What about everything in between?
Here is my list of whiplash symptoms and pain that can be surprising after a car crash. I never knew about many of these until I started chiropractic school. Even some I learned after I graduated. I was surprised when I learned these, and I bet you will be too.
Whiplash Symptoms
Blurred Vision
First on the list is vision problems. Your eyes along with everything else in your body can suffer from the sudden jolt of an automobile collision. Nerves that send signals back and forth are effected as well as the fluid within your eyeball. Retina detachment may occur at extreme forces. Luckily for most, visual disturbance subsides with time. Non-the-less, your eyes are important so make sure you discuss this with your chiropractor.
Headaches
Number three on our list is the sinister headache. Headaches can be depressing to debilitating. At best headaches cause minor pain and at worst headaches can make you wish you were never born. Throbbing, pounding and painful vice like headaches can all occur from a auto injuries. How does this happen? Nerves, muscles and vascular structures in your had can all be damaged in a car accident. Remember that the sudden jolt of force from a car accident does not discriminate. Once the nerves, muscles or vascular structures are damaged, it can cause headaches.
Low Back Pain
Hold up there! How can something so far from the neck make it to number four on our list? Once again anti-discrimination laws go into effect. These laws occur in car accidents and not just our work place. When you are involved in a car accident, your entire body is whipped forward. The seat belt that holds you back can act as a fulcrum causing injury to your back. In certain cases, the head is snapped so far back and forth that the resulting injury goes all the way down your back.
Other Symptoms
Some may take days, weeks, months or even years to show up – OK, OK, this is not exactly a symptom but it is surprising to me and shocking to the victims. Pain or symptoms may take a while to manifest after a car accident- no matter what it is; headaches, dizziness, jaw (TMJ) pain, vertigo, ringing in the ears, fatigue, blurred vision, pain the neck, low back pain, shoulder pain, elbow/arm or wrist pain, and hip/knee or ankle pain. Why is this? With pain, the swelling may take up to 24 hours before the swelling causes pain. With other symptoms like dizziness or headaches things may not be noticed until after the major pain has died down. In other words you body is so focused on the extreme pain in your neck or back and its not until the neck and back pain has died down that you now feel or notice the headaches and dizziness.
So there you have it. My initial list of four surprising symptoms after a motor vehicle collision (MVC). If you would like to read more, please contact us today!
About Blakely Chiropractic
Dr. Bruce Blakely has been treating helping patients with chiropractic care throughout San Diego for over 4 decades. Dr. Blakely is a 1980 graduate of Palmer College of Chiropractic, the foremost and most widely recognized college in the field of Chiropractic medicine.
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