Whether you're looking forward to getting your first car after passing the driver’s test or you’ve been driving for years, it’s crucial to mention how vital responsible driving is. When you’re driving, you’re responsible for a machine that weighs tons, and basic things like paying attention to the road, wearing a seatbelt, and not driving angry make a world of difference in avoiding accidents.
As recently as 2022, the police reported 5,930,496 accidents in a year, with 42,514 fatalities, 1,664,598 injuries, and 4,226,677 caused property damage. In that year alone, $481.2 billion in financial costs put millions of people in trouble with insurance, medical expenses, and other types of damage.
Managing your health after an auto accident can be a nightmare, but Corey Skinner, DC, and his dedicated staff at Action Chiropractic Dallas can help residents of the Dallas, Texas, area recover.
These causes are frequently responsible for vehicular accidents happen:
Sadly, most auto accidents boil down to human error.
Surviving these accidents means dealing with a range of physical injuries, such as:
Rollovers, side impact collisions, and severe whiplash injuries cause spinal and neurological harm. Dealing with them leads to chronic pain, loss of motor function, speech problems, and dizziness.
Concussions and traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) often occur in accidents, when the sudden impact of an accident causes the brain to violently move within your skull. Sudden collisions and your head striking the steering wheel, dashboard, or elsewhere in the car lead to head injuries, and many TBIs are fatal.
Your arms and legs commonly suffer damage in accidents, resulting in bruising, dislocations, burns, fractures, and, in severe cases, crushing impacts that require amputation. Neurological damage can also affect how well your limbs function after the accident.
Internal damage also happens a lot, but is harder to detect on the scene. Some internal issues can happen with trauma from seatbelts, but more often, severe problems occur in bad accidents, especially when you’re thrown from the car.
Ligaments, tendons, muscles, skin, and other less dense tissues in your body are always at risk in accidents. Rear-end, side impact, and head-on collisions all have a high chance of this kind of injury.
Our practice specializes in dealing with spinal injuries, so we are uniquely equipped to help you manage related back and neck issues, like whiplash, herniated discs, and a range of soft tissue and musculoskeletal issues that can result from these accidents.
Treatment options like spinal decompression, corrective exercises, trigger point therapy, physical therapy, and, of course, chiropractic care, can make a lot of difference in coping with the pain that can come from an auto collision.
Auto accidents can change people’s lives, but Dr. Skinner and our team will help you get through the pain and recover from injury. Make an appointment online or by phone today at Action Chiropractic Dallas today to start your path to recovery.
