Whiplash Injury Information, Dr. Langschied

Chiropractor Jeffersontown KY 40299

1. How Our Services Help Your Whiplash Injury
2. What is Cause Whiplash Injury
3. How to Treat Whiplash Injury
4. Will Whiplash Injury Symptoms Return
5. How Chiropractic Adjustments Relieve Whiplash Injury
6. Best Whiplash Injury Therapies
7. What Speed Causes Whiplash Injury
8. Tips to Relieve Whiplash Injury at Home
9. How Many Treatment for Whiplash Injury
10. How Long Whiplash Injury to Heal
11. How to Diagnose Whiplash Injury
12. How Compensated for Whiplash Injury
13. Can Whiplash Injury Cause Double Vision
14. Can Whiplash Injury Cause Disc Bulge
15. Can Whiplash Injury Cause Concussion
16. Special Offer from Dr. Neil Langschied

 

1. How Our Services Help Your Whiplash Injury Case

How will we help you with your whiplash injury case?

• We’ll verify the insurance coverage and file all the necessary paperwork.
• We’ll also send in any needed medical reports to the insurance company.
• We’ll also work with your attorney and send initial, final and periodic medical report of your whiplash injury.
• If your case goes to court, we’ll be more than happy to testify in your behalf in relation to the whiplash injuries you sustained.

Most doctors are unwilling to take time out to go to court on behalf of their patients, I will. Give me a call, my name is Dr. Neil Langschied and I’m a Chiropractor in Jeffersontown, Kentucky. Call 267-6444.

2. What is Cause Whiplash Injury

The common cause of a whiplash injury is an auto accident getting hit from the behind or front and cause your head and neck to violently move forward and backwards.

Your neck and joints in the cervical spine are only designed to move so far. When you get into a whiplash injury accident, it causes the head and neck to move beyond the normal range of motion causing injury to the soft tissue structure tendons and ligaments.

3. How to Treat Whiplash Injury

How do you treat a whiplash injury? We treat whiplash injuries with chiropractic care, mainly because the resulting injury causes disc pressure and pinched nerves.

Chiropractic spinal adjustments align the spine helps relieve both those conditions.

4. Will Whiplash Injury Symptoms Return

Will your whiplash injuries and pain come back years later? In a lot of instances it will if you did not have the proper therapy.

If you waited too long to get physical medicine such as chiropractic spinal adjustments, your injuries could heal wrong and come back years afterwards.

5. How Chiropractic Adjustments Relieve Whiplash Injury

How do chiropractic adjustments help relieve whiplash injury? Typically in a whiplash injury you have ligaments and tendons that are strained or torn and you’ll get the misalignment’s of the spine.

Chiropractic adjustments align the spine up correctly so when the ligaments and tendons heal, you heal with a nice straight spine, not a crooked or an abnormal functioning spine.

Call our chiropractic office in Jeffersontown KY to receive chiropractic adjustments for a whiplash injury.

6. Best Whiplash Injury Therapies

Therapies that we use in our office to help relieve whiplash injury would include:

• Ultrasound therapy would help decrease inflammation and scar tissue formation in and around the joints of the neck and muscle tissue.
• We also use electrical muscle stimulation therapy. Muscle stimulation is a mild current used to relive pain, muscle spasms and decrease inflammation.
• Our chiropractic office uses massage therapy for whiplash injuries to help reduce scar tissue formation and muscular swelling.
• In addition we use traction therapy to help relieve a disc bulge or herniation.
• And we also do progressive rehab exercises and stretches to help strengthen the musculature around the injured area to help hold it all together.

So those are some of the therapies we typically do in our office to help you with a whiplash injury. My name is Dr. Neil Langschied and I’m a Chiropractor in Jeffersontown, Kentucky.

7. What Speed Causes Whiplash Injury

At what speed does whiplash occur? Whiplash can occur at any speed even very, very low speeds. And the reason why is because there’s no muscle guarding and because you’re not suspecting the accident.

And there’s three impacts involved in a whiplash injury.

1. You have the initial impact of the seat against your back or the impact of you on the dashboard.
2. Then you have the continuation of the movement of the brain impacting the inside of the skull.
3. Last you have the recoil or whiplash when everything stops and you go back to normal position.

So without muscle guarding and those three impacts, it does not take a very high speed to cause a whiplash injury. If you have suffered a whiplash injury give our chiropractic office in Jeffersontown, Kentucky a call at 267-6444.

8. Tips to Relieve Whiplash Injury at Home

Some tips on relieving whiplash injury at home.

• In the beginning definitely using ice, 3-4 times a day for 10-15 minutes. Make sure that you’re leaving it off for a couple of hours in between.
• Also you can do some light stretching as directed by your chiropractor. If the stretching is causing any pain then stop.

9. How Many Treatment for Whiplash Injury

How many treatments is needed for whiplash-type injury?

• In the first phase of healing or the inflammation phase treatments could be daily for up to 72 hours.
• During the repair phase which lasts 72 hours to 12 weeks, treatments could be three times a week to two times a week.
• In the last phase of healing or the remodel phase (which lasts 12 weeks up to 12 months) you can be being seen anywhere from one time a week to one time a month during those period of time.

So it varies but that’s in general how that works in repairing and healing a whiplash injury.

10. How Long Whiplash Injury to Heal

How long does it take for a whiplash injury to heal? There are 3 phases to injury healing.

1. The first phase is inflammation phase and can last up to 72 hours.
2. Second phase is Repair Phase which can last from 72 hours up to 12 weeks.
3. The third phase of healing is the remodel phase which can last from 12 weeks to 12 months.

And that’s how long for the whiplash injury to heal.

11. How to Diagnose Whiplash Injury

How do you diagnose a whiplash injury? It’s a combination of several factors:

• Patient history.
• Understand the method of the injury.
• The examination process will reveal results for the whiplash injury.
• X-rays including flexion and extension x-rays checking for ligament stability.
• Possible MRI to evaluate soft tissue injury.

That’s how you document and check for whiplash injury.

If you suspect a whiplash injury give my chiropractic office in Jeffersontown a call at 267-6444.

12. How Compensated for Whiplash Injury

How are you compensated for your whiplash injuries? There are three ways that you are compensated for whiplash injuries.

1. Medical injuries including permanent injuries.
2. Lost wages including past, present or future lost wages as a result of the injury.
3. Pain and suffering, or loss of enjoyment of life or activities of daily living.

And those are the three main ways you’re compensated for a whiplash injury.

At our office we document your injury and treatment for possible compensation.  My name is Dr. Neil Langschied and I’m a Chiropractor in Jeffersontown, Kentucky.

13. Can Whiplash Injury Cause Double Vision

Can whiplash injuries cause double vision? Definitely. It’s very common in whiplash especially when you’re getting hit from the front or from the back.

You can get a brain trauma and that’s how you get double vision.

14. Can Whiplash Injury Cause Disc Bulge

Can a whiplash injury cause disc bulge? Yes.

The sudden movement of the head and neck moves the vertebrae on the disc so suddenly that it causes rupture of the disc and the material inside the disc starts bulging out toward the nerve and that’s how you get the neck pain with that.

15. Can Whiplash Injury Cause Concussion

Can a whiplash injury cause a concussion? Definitely.

A concussion is caused in whiplash injury by the sudden movement and stoppage of your head and brain. Your brain will hit collide inside your skull on the front or the back.

16. Special Offer from Dr. Neil Langschied

My name is Dr. Neil Langschied I’m a chiropractor in Jeffersontown Kentucky and have been practicing chiropractic for over twelve years.

We commonly treat and have tremendous success with lower back pain, neck pain, headaches resulting from whiplash injury.

Therapies we use in my office to help you with whiplash injury are chiropractic adjustments, ultrasound therapy, muscle stimulation, traction therapy, massage therapy which everybody loves, and we also use progressive rehab to help strengthen your spine after an injury.

Chiropractic is covered by almost all insurance carriers now in the state of Kentucky. I haven’t run cross one that doesn’t.

We’re on Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Cigna, Humana, United Health Care, Medicare and all auto insurance carriers cover our chiropractic services.

So, if you’re having any of these problems please give my office a call, we’ll get you in today and start you on the road to health.

We’re here to help, call (502) 267-6444.