Whiplash is a common result of an auto accident, but that is not the only way you can get whiplash. It can happen from a sports injury, a fall, or from physical abuse. At Kosak Chiropractic in Fairfield, CA, Dr. Michael Wilson uses a holistic approach to treating everything, including whiplash. He treats the whole person, not the symptoms.
Spinal adjustment
Spinal adjustment is one of the primary treatments chiropractors use in their practice. Many different techniques are available, and your chiropractor is likely to use more than one. No matter how the adjustment is done, the end goal is the same, to get the vertebrae back into alignment. Whiplash is violent enough to cause misalignment and this can result in pain. When things aren't aligned, messages can't get from the brain to other parts of the body and this causes dysfunction.
Massage therapy
Massage therapy provides a variety of feelings and results. It can cause almost complete relaxation. This can help with other treatments that your chiropractor may recommend. The relaxed muscles around the spine allow it to be manipulated more easily. When the muscles in the neck and shoulders are painful, it can help to lessen the pain and to remove the knots of fascia that may have been caused by whiplash. Hot stones can bring increased circulation and heat to painful areas.
Electrical muscle stimulation
Whiplash stretches the muscles and other soft tissue in the neck and results in a great deal of pain that travels all the way to the shoulders. With electric muscle stimulation, the muscles get small amounts of current that cause the muscles to contract and when they get tired they relax, allowing the pain to diminish. It also stimulates the release of endorphins.
Therapeutic ultrasound
Ultrasound uses sound waves to vibrate and heat the tissue. It provides pain relief as well as a reduction in inflammation. It helps to accelerate healing at a cellular level.
Therapeutic exercise
Therapeutic exercise is personalized to each individual patient. The exercises that will be recommended will help with your injury and allow you to continue your recovery between visits as well as after your chiropractic visits have stopped.
Why wait, call us today
When you require whiplash treatment, Dr. Wilson of Kosak Chiropractic in Fairfield, CA offers a variety of holistic treatments that can help to heal your whiplash injury. Give our office a call at (707) 426-1111.