Diagnosing and Treating Dizziness after a Car Accident at Optimal Health Chiropractic + Massage Clinic

Car accidents can cause head and neck injuries, especially whiplash. If you feel dizzy after your car accident, our chiropractor, here at Optimal Health Chiropractic + Massage Clinic, recommends scheduling an appointment to diagnose and treat your car accident injuries.

Head and Neck Injuries after a Car Accident

It is not uncommon to feel dizzy after a car accident. When your vehicle impacts another car, truck, van or object, it stops instantly. Unfortunately, your body keeps moving, ricocheting between the seat belt and seat until the excess forward momentum is exhausted. This can result in injuries to your head and neck.

The most common type of injury to the head and neck during a car accident is whiplash. It occurs when your head and neck are forcefully stretched outside of their normal range of motion, which causes sprains and strains in your neck and misaligns the vertebrae.

Symptoms of Whiplash

An early sign of whiplash is feeling dizzy or experiencing vertigo. The dizziness can be caused by two factors. The first common cause of dizziness after an accident is a pinched or inflamed nerve in the neck.

The second cause involves your inner ear. Your inner ear contains small crystals. When these crystals are functioning properly and in the proper locations, they press against the nerve endings in your ear. Those nerve endings tell your brain information about the position of your head. During a car accident, those crystals can break free of their proper locations, causing dizziness and vertigo.

The dizziness may be accompanied by headaches, blurry vision, neck pain and stiffness and trouble sleeping or feeling irritable. You may also experience upper back pain and pain in your upper arms.

Edmonds Chiropractic Care for Dizziness and Vertigo after a Car Accident

Our chiropractor in Edmonds offers chiropractic care, massage therapy and acupuncture for whiplash after a car accident. Chiropractic care encompasses spinal adjustments, which help to reposition your cervical vertebrae into their proper locations. This helps alleviate the pressure on your nerves and soft tissues while restoring the curvature of your cervical vertebrae.

Massage therapy helps heal neck injuries after a car accident by relaxing your muscles and soft tissues while promoting blood flow. If you opt to get a massage prior to your chiropractic adjustment, you will notice that the adjustment is more comfortable because your chiropractor is able to use less pressure to realign your vertebra.

Acupuncture helps heal soft tissue injuries and alleviates pain by stimulating the soft tissues and improving blood flow around the needles.

To schedule an appointment for your car accident injuries, call our Edmonds chiropractic office at 425-361-1839.

How has receiving chiropractic care helped you after your car accident?