If you have been in a San Diego car accident, \t\t\tyou can at least be comforted by the fact that \t\t\tapproximately 1 out of 8 people in San Diego are in an \t\t\tauto accident each year. After doing approximately \t\t\t700,000 chiropractic adjustments I would say that at \t\t\tleast half of the treatment I do is because of either \t\t\tinjuries from recent auto accidents or injuries from \t\t\tauto accidents far in the past.Sports injuries might slightly \t\t\tbeat Auto Accidents or come in a close second.<\/p>\n
If you found this page, you may have been \t\t\tlooking for a San Diego auto accident attorney or a San Diego \t\t\tchiropractic office. Either way I will give you the basic \t\t\tinformation to get you started. By the way, I am not an \t\t\tattorney and anything I have on this page should not be \t\t\ttaken as legal advice, if you need a good attorney I have \t\t\tlots of great contacts I could refer you to.<\/p>\n
The first thing after an car accident, is to make sure that \t\t\tnothing life threatening has taken place to you. There are the \t\t\tobvious things such as broken bones or bleeding, but I am \t\t\tguessing if you have one of those this website is not the \t\t\tfirst place you turned to. If you do have an obvious broken \t\t\tbone or bleeding from your auto accident for gosh sakes dial \t\t\t911 and put down that\tkeyboard. \t\t\tThe not so obvious things are the hidden broken bones.<\/p>\n
People often expect that if they broke a bone they would have \t\t\texcruciating pain. The funny thing is, it depends on what part \t\t\tof the bone is broken and what part of the body it is in. When \t\t\tI broken my elbow I did have excruciating pain, (by the way I was \t\t\tskateboarding in a half pipe, trying to explain to some kids that \t\t\twere watching how to do a front side aerial, bad idea). On the \t\t\tother hand, over the years, I have seen a good handful of people \t\t\twho had small fractures of their vertebrae and had little or no \t\t\tpain. So if the car accident had any significant amount of force \t\t\tat all, you would definitely want to be checked out by a doctor \t\t\tand possibly have an x-ray taken to evaluate if there is a \t\t\tfracture.<\/p>\n
The thing that is surprising to most people is just how little \t\t\tforce it takes to injure someone. In physics, there is an \t\t\tinteresting thing that takes place. If you take a light weight \t\t\tobject and jam it into somebody going really, really fast it \t\t\twould do little or no damage. An example of this would be a one \t\t\tyear old child on a bicycle going 20 miles per hour who runs \t\t\tinto a full grown man. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not saying the guy who gets hit \t\t\twon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get some cuts or bruises, but the little kid is probably \t\t\tnot going to \t\t\tcause any significant permanent damage. On the other hand, if \t\t\tyou take something as big as a cruise ship even if it going one \t\t\tmile an hour and it bumps into the back of you without you \t\t\texpecting it, the potential exists for it to kill you. All that \t\t\tforce is transmitted into you body in a single second.<\/p>\n
The same thing goes with car accidents, if I am driving my \t\t\tToyota Landcruiser, and someone rear ends me with their Honda \t\t\tCivic, and they are going 10 miles per hour they are barely going \t\t\tto budge my car. But on the other hand, if someone is sitting in \t\t\ta Honda Civic and somebody gets bumped from behind by someone \t\t\tdriving a Toyota Landcruiser, that car is going to take off like \t\t\ta billiard ball. Even when small car like a Honda Civic \t\t\thits another car such as a Honda Civic, the person inside the \t\t\tcar still weighs very little compared to the two cars. So the \t\t\tperson inside can get accelerated and thrown at remarkable speeds, \t\t\tcompared to the speed of the cars and the amount of apparent \t\t\tdamage on the bumpers. Some cars are designed so that they have \t\t\tthe bumper compress and bounce and show no damage at all, \t\t\tbut it still can throw the person around quite rapidly.<\/p>\n
The bones in the spine are tiny compared to the size of a car and \t\t\tweigh only a few ounces. If your seat is hit just right during the \t\t\taccident and throws you forward or to the side, the amount that \t\t\tthe vertebrae can be thrown out of alignment can be significant. \t\t\tA vertebra will normally just fall back into alignment on its \t\t\town, unless there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also muscle spasm that goes along with it \t\t\tafterward. That muscle spasm can squeeze the bones together and \t\t\tcan cause them to get stuck. You can read about that in the \t\t\tcartoon book on my website.<\/p>\n
Often people don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have any pain after the car accident, but \t\t\tinstead have their worst pain, from my experience and observation, \t\t\tabout two weeks after the auto accident takes place. This of \t\t\tcourse doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t count the ones that have the severe broken bones \t\t\tor internal injuries. So my suggestion is if you have a car \t\t\taccident, even if it was only a 5 or 10 mile per hour accident, \t\t\thave a good chiropractor check you out, to make sure that all of \t\t\tthe vertebrae are still moving well, and none of them have got \t\t\tstuck out of alignment.<\/p>\n
And of course, for gosh sake, if you think there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s even a chance \t\t\tsomething might have gotten broken, make sure to go immediately to \t\t\tthe emergency room, probably in the ambulance to have them check \t\t\tyou out and take an x-ray and make sure nothing got broken.<\/p>\n
Over the years we have done work with many, many hundreds if not \t\t\tthousands of people who have been involved in auto accidents, so \t\t\tif you have any other questions feel free to call my office and \t\t\twe would be happy to answer your questions at no charge. If it is \t\t\ta legal question, we have some great attorneys we can refer you \t\t\tto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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