The shock of a motor vehicle accident is sudden, traumatic, and often produces forces from various directions acting on the body and injuring it. Many patients also tense up as they recognize the impending danger, compounding the injury to soft tissue and muscle.
In addition to broken bones, patients can experience nerve damage, deep tissue injuries, and tears to supporting tissue such as tendons and ligaments. Immediate treatment is usually for the most apparent injuries, with other damage, especially to the soft tissue and nerves, showing up in the following weeks or even years later, as the damage affects the body’s daily operation.
Shockwave Therapy Reaches Deep Tissue Injuries and Promotes Motor Vehicle Accident Recovery
By helping the body recover from its injuries and heal naturally in proper alignment, chiropractic care can help avoid problems of chronic pain, movement limitations, and other effects of bone, soft tissue, and nerve damage over time. Radial shockwave therapy is an important tool in promoting healing and correcting damage from motor vehicle accidents and other sudden impact injuries.
How Shockwave Therapy Helps
Shockwave therapy is the result of technology developed decades ago and made affordable in recent years. The equipment operates much like that which breaks up kidney stones in place using sound waves — it transmits energy deep within the body from an instrument in contact with the surface. When the sound waves are targeted at an injury, they can help in several ways: loosening tightened tissue, helping bones and spinal components to return to more normal positions, and encouraging healing of the injured area through stimulated tissue and increased blood flow, allowing the body’s natural healing processes to proceed without the restrictions that injuries can often create.
Avoiding the Long-Term Effects of a Car Crash
For patients who have experienced motor vehicle accident damage, the initial results can be quick and long-lasting, with further benefits over time. Combined with chiropractic adjustments, massage, and physical therapy techniques and based on the chiropractor’s deep knowledge of the body’s structures, a car crash doesn’t have to be a life-changing, physically and mentally traumatic experience.
Expert Care from a Local Trusted Chiropractor
Dr. David W. Nadler & Associates provides the chiropractic services that Philadelphia area residents need to recover from motor vehicle accidents and other complex injuries. Call us and get on the road to healing, moving freely, and reducing chronic pain.