Why Muscular Therapy Is An Essential Part Of The Healing Process For Sprains And Strains, The Most Common Injuries From Car Accidents
The whiplash injury to the neck, or cervical sprain/strain, is by far the most common injury that results from a car accident.
Sprains and strains are referred to as soft tissue injuries (soft tissue includes muscles, tendons, and ligaments), but for simplicities sake, you can think of “soft tissue” as muscle.
Soft tissue injuries, invisible on x-rays and often overlooked, can cause severe debilitating pain after a car accident.
Worse yet, if a soft tissue injury is not directly addressed with soft tissue therapy, and left untreated and unresolved, the injured muscles and other soft tissues can end up causing chronic pain for months, years—even decades after the accident.
Unfortunately, the standard medical approach to these injuries often amounts to nothing more than suppressing the symptoms with pain-killers and anti-inflammatory drugs, leaving the injured muscles to hopefully heal on their own.
Injured muscles heal with scar tissue in a way that leaves them weaker, less elastic, and prone to re-injury and pain. Muscular therapy approaches like Soft Tissue Release help to restore muscular strength, flexibility, and normal function by correcting or “aligning” the scar tissue.
This can be crucial for full muscular recovery. Muscles tend not to recover fully when given only time in which to heal.
To learn more about how muscles heal, and why they need this assistance, visit the How muscles heal page.
And here are some car accident injury treatment success stories
I am a Chiropractor in Reno, NV and I agree with you completely. One of the biggest causes of chronic neck and low back pain that I see in my practice is a patient that was involved in a sprain/strain whiplash type injury years ago due to a car accident and they didn’t take the time to have their soft tissue injuries treated immediately after the accident. Postponing treatment after a car accident, or worse yet, not receiving any soft tissue treatment after an accident leads to scar tissue formation and a lifetime of limited motion and pain. Do yourself a favor if you have been involved in a car accident and see a back or neck pain specialist, most of this treatment is even covered by your car insurance.
I was rear ended by a ton truck 15yrs ago,had neck fusion, and muscle damage mostly left side, I did and still going to chiropractics,pain clinics,massage therpist,I hurt so bad still when I have fair ups that lasts months….the muscle under my shoulderblade is like a basketball in my left shoulder, and in the front its like a broken rock.Are there something else for me…Please Thank you Roxanna Redmond
I have had problems mainly standing in one spot to long or walking to long. I was in a T-bone MVA in 2008. Is this spinal stenosis? I also have SI joint problems. For some reason there is no sign of Stenosis.
I feel better after bending over for about 30 seconds. I do exercise but standing long still is a big problem for me. I have to limit everything I do and take constant sit down breaks. Why doesn’t stenosis show up on x-ray or MRI? What can I do to improve this?
I do have a couple of bulging disc’s and facet joint atrophy. I do remember being in a great deal of pain/weakness numbness going down to the feet after the accident going from left side then right side it would cause spasms going up the back. It was extremely difficult to sit/stand or lye down to long. I did do physio, accupuncture, pain management. However, now I do notice if I do to much walking/standing now the pain can get pretty bad sometimes. So I have to constantly bend forward to stretch it out.
I would appreciate you input…and thank you for listening!