by Dr. David Lee, D.C. | May 29, 2012 | Auto Accident Injuries, Chiropractic Care |
Have You Been Involved In A Car Accident In Minnesota? Does insurance cover chiropractic? Are you worried about the medical bills? Minnesota is a No Fault state which means that every Minnesota auto insurance policy includes Personal Injury Protection regardless of who is at fault. If you have been injured in a motor vehicle accident, you automatically have coverage to get your injuries treated. Having an auto accident is bad enough, dealing with the car damage, the insurance, the loss of work, but on top of that, you are in terrible pain. Possible Symptoms From Auto Accidents: • Whiplash • Neck Pain • Stiffness • Headaches • Lower Back Pain • Shoulder Pain • Trouble Sleeping • Dizziness • Ringing in the ears • Blurred Vision What if you are not in pain? Whether you are sore or not, you should get checked out immediately. What if the pain doesn’t set in until a week or even a month after? Whiplash can be a very serious injury. You need a doctor that specialized in Whiplash or other Auto Accident Injuries. Sometimes your injuries can take weeks or months to set in. Chiropractors are trained and can help you with injuries that may not have any symptoms right away. Whiplash Injuries and Chiropractic Even if you don’t have any obvious or immediate symptoms after an auto accident, or other injury, I would recommend that you visit a chiropractor as soon as possible. Only then can an assessment of the severity and recovery of whiplash injury be made. Research has shown that chiropractic has been a very effective approach to healing whiplash. In fact, Chiropractic Is The “Only Proven Effective Treatment” for...
by Dr. David Lee, D.C. | May 24, 2012 | Auto Accident Injuries, Chiropractic Care, Headaches, Lower Back Pain, Neck Pain |
Chiropractic Care MN | Neck Injury Having an auto accident is bad enough, dealing with the car damage, the insurance, the loss of work, but on top of that, you are in terrible pain. What if you are not in pain? Whether you are sore or not, you should get checked out immediately. What if the pain doesn’t set in until a week or even a month after? Whiplash can be a very serious injury. Chiropractic Care Can Help On The Road To Recovery We can help you with that. We find out what is the source of your pain, and we come up with a personalized treatment plan that gets you the fastest relief of pain, using natural remedies, and chiropractic solutions. You need a doctor that specialized in Whiplash or other Auto Accident Injuries. Sometimes your injuries can take weeks or months to set in. Chiropractors are trained and can help you with injuries that may not have any symptoms right away. Possible Symptoms From Auto Accidents: • Whiplash • Neck Pain • Stiffness • Headaches • Lower Back Pain • Shoulder Pain • Trouble Sleeping • Dizziness • Ringing in the ears • Blurred Vision You don’t have to be frustrated with the “unknown”, we will listen to you, and take x-rays and come up with a complete treatment plan that will be the most beneficial to you and your injury needs. We use a healthy natural approach using Eastern Chinese Therapies. We do more than just treat the immediate issue, we follow through with your treatments, making sure to completely correct the issue. At Achieve Health Chiropractic & Acupuncture we realize that our therapies are...
by Dr. David Lee, D.C. | Apr 10, 2012 | Auto Accident Injuries, Chiropractic Care, Sports Injuries, Work Related Injuries, Workman's Comp |
Auto Accidents, Workman’s Comp and Sports Related Injuries Chiropractors have long been dedicated to delivering the safest and most effective healing methods for their patients. Scientific evidence supports chiropractic adjustments as safe, effective and an appropriate choice for patients with many common forms of neck pain and headaches. Chiropractic health care has an impressive array of studies which support and prove the effectiveness of chiropractic care in a variety of different health ailments and many more studies are currently underway. Chiropractic – A Clear Winner For Back Pain No Contest! Many of these studies have been done not only by chiropractors, but by other health care professionals as well, including federal government studies of various countries. So, how do chiropractors treat patients after an auto accident injury, work injury, or sports injury? In an accident, muscle, ligament, and tendon damage results from the violent movement of the body along with trauma from impacts. Many traditional medical treatments focus on obvious injuries while assuming that surrounding soft tissues will heal on their own. In many cases, this is true because the body is an amazing healing machine, but often, back pain, neck pain, and headaches can emerge weeks and months after an accident when the body healing response compensates for misalignment and scar tissue. When underlying structural issues go unresolved, the body rebuilds an injured area with built-in potential for long-term pain and limited function. Old injuries can often be the underlying cause of sciatica or worsen existing chronic conditions. Your back is an intricate structure of bones, muscles, and other tissues extending from your neck to your pelvis. Back...
by Dr. David Lee, D.C. | Mar 30, 2012 | Auto Accident Injuries, Chiropractic Care, Sports Injuries, Work Related Injuries, Workman's Comp |
Auto Accidents, Workman’s Comp and Sports Related Injuries One of the most common personal injury complaints is neck pain and back pain from sports injuries auto accidents, work injuries and spinal injuries. Although a spinal cord injury is usually the result of an accident and can happen to anyone, certain factors may predispose you to a higher risk of sustaining a spinal cord injury, including: Being male. Spinal cord injuries affect a disproportionate amount of men. In fact, females account for only about 20 percent of traumatic spinal cord injuries in the United States. Being between the ages of 16 and 30. You’re most likely to suffer a traumatic spinal cord injury if you’re between the ages of 16 and 30. Auto accidents are the leading cause of spinal cord injuries for people under 65, while falls cause most injuries in older adults. Engaging in risky behavior. Diving into too-shallow water or playing sports without wearing the proper safety gear or taking proper precautions can lead to spinal cord injuries. Having a bone or joint disorder. A relatively minor injury can cause a spinal cord injury if you have another disorder that affects your bones or joints, such as arthritis or osteoporosis. Everyone Gains When An Injured Worker Is Safely Back On The Job! Chiropractic care continues to be the top treatment options for work related injuries. Lower back pain and repetitive stress injuries, including carpal tunnel syndrome, are just two of the more common work related conditions we treat on a regular basis. Industrial injuries result in injury to a worker, both physically and financially Back pain is...
by Dr. David Lee, D.C. | Mar 6, 2012 | Auto Accident Injuries, Chiropractic Medicine, Whiplash |
MN Chiropractor Whiplash is a neck and spinal injury most commonly caused by a rear-end car collision. Generally, the driver and passengers in the vehicle that was hit from behind sustain the whiplash injury. But occupants in the other vehicle might also sustain a similar injury, although it is technically not whiplash. The impact of a rear-end collision will force the neck and head to whip back and forth suddenly, stretching the body beyond its normal range of movement. If you have been involved in a car accident, whiplash injuries need to be taken very seriously. Because symptoms of a whiplash injury can take weeks or months to manifest, it is easy to be fooled into thinking that you are not as injured as you really are. Symptoms from a car accident injury and whiplash may include radiating pain into the shoulder, elbow pain, wrist pain or hand pain, low back pain, headaches and more. In whiplash research, many articles that conflict or contradict each other. Most whiplash symptoms develop within 24 hours of the injury and may include: Neck pain and stiffness Headaches, most commonly at the base of the skull Dizziness Blurred vision Fatigue Some people also experience: Difficulty concentrating Memory problems Ringing in the ears Sleep disturbances Irritability The goal of this is to discuss the “truth” about whiplash. It is more common to have a delay in the onset of whiplash symptoms. Symptoms may start about two hours after the initial injury or it may take days, weeks, or months before you feel anything. For whiplash caused by car accidents, the severity depends on the...
by Dr. David Lee, D.C. | Nov 3, 2011 | Auto Accident Injuries, Chiropractic Care |
Your Auto Accident Injury Might Be Hidden The Hidden Injuries of Car Accidents It all happens so fast. You are sitting in your car at a red light and then WHAM! You are rear ended by another vehicle. The sudden, unexpected accident that caused your whiplash injury may fade into memory, but the physical and psychological damage of whiplash can become chronic, severely affecting your quality of life. Chiropractic care can give you the best chance at living a normal, healthy life after a car accident. This is because chiropractic techniques were developed to relieve the neck pain, back pain, headaches and other debilitating effects of whiplash. You need a doctor that specialized in Whiplash or other Auto Accident Injuries. Specifically, chiropractic care will help you with: Restoring movement lost after the accident Injury to your hands from bracing the steering wheel, like carpal tunnel Speeding recovery Diminishing chronic symptoms that can persist or recur over many years Overcoming muscle weakness and enhance muscle tone Chiropractic injuries, including damage to your disks Over 25% of people who are injured in auto accidents do not make a full recovery. That means that they live with some ongoing pain or disability related to their injury. When we are injured in whiplash accidents, muscles are torn and ligaments are sprained. Torn muscles and sprained ligaments heal with scar tissue, which limits our mobility, causes pain in cold weather and can impede our ability to play the sports or participate in the leisure time that we enjoy. Chiropractic adjustments have proved successful for hundreds of thousands of patients. Chiropractic Care significantly reduces patients’ distress and allows them...
