Slips and falls, car accidents, dog attacks - these are all examples of personal injury cases that can cause serious injury to your body's alignment and overall health. If your body feels off or you have symptoms of whiplash, a chiropractor can help. We work to rehabilitate your body in a more natural and healthy way - often helping you avoid unnecessary surgery.

Have you sustained an injury and need help recovering? We invite you to contact us at EIH to discover the benefits of chiropractic care.

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Benefits of Chiropractic Care for Personal Injury

When you have a personal injury and chiropractic care is available, it can help you get back to your pre-injury condition. That's because seeing a chiropractor has some unique benefits that other types of treatment don't offer, especially not all in one package. Here are a few of the many ways chiropractic care can help you recover.

Correcting Alignment

Any accident can put your body out of alignment. For example, if you are in a car accident, you might get whiplash. This puts your neck and other areas out of alignment. However, by adjusting your upper spine, the chiropractor can correct that misalignment, get rid of pain, and restore your neck's function.

Reducing Pain

Nearly all personal injuries cause pain. A chiropractor can use various techniques, tools, and equipment to alleviate the pain and help you feel like yourself again.

Increasing Range of Motion

Often, a personal injury causes problems with your range of motion. Where before an accident, you could move your joints freely; afterward, your joints just won't move that way anymore. Chiropractic care that includes both adjustments and physiotherapy can help you move your limbs as far as you could before the wreck or mishap.

Improving Balance

Lack of balance can become a problem any time you have a personal injury. And that's especially true if the injury affected one side of your body more than the other. The chiropractor's alignment treatments restore your balance because every part of your body is back in its usual position. Having good balance will also help you avoid re-injuring yourself.

Breathing Easier

Did you know that your nerves help your lungs function? When a chiropractor adjusts your neck and upper back, these nerves begin to do that job better. You breathe more efficiently and without neck pain.

Decreasing Blood Pressure

Several studies have shown that blood pressure goes down after a chiropractic adjustment. So, what does blood pressure have to do with personal injury and chiropractic care? Acute pain at the time of an injury raises blood pressure. Later, chronic pain keeps the blood pressure at a higher-than-normal reading. Chiropractic treatment gets you past the pain and back to your usual state of overall health.

Improving Immune System Function

An injury doesn't necessarily come with infections, but sometimes it can. If you have wounds or cuts, germs can get into them and cause trouble. Because chiropractic care corrects misalignments, it helps heal the nerves involved in regulating cell function, including your immune cells.

Improving Sleep Quality

When your body is out of alignment, it can be impossible to find a comfortable position for sleep. Because chiropractic care relieves tension and pain, you can once again get a good night's sleep. This is important because sleep helps your body heal.

Treating Spinal Injuries

When you think of a chiropractor, what is the first treatment that pops into your mind? For most people, the answer would be adjusting the spine. That's not surprising since your chiropractor specializes in spinal health and all the different treatments that improve it. So, if you have a spinal injury in any part of your body, it will affect other parts of your body as well. Then, your chiropractor can call on his expertise to help you heal.

Providing Natural Treatments

Chiropractic care for a personal injury is ideal for anyone who wants a natural pathway to health. Rather than throw prescriptions at you, your chiropractor uses natural methods that don't disrupt your physical functioning in any way.

Avoiding Unnecessary Surgery

Which would you rather have? Surgery for your injury or noninvasive chiropractic care? Injuries don't always require you to go through the pain and risk that surgery brings. Instead, you can come to us with your personal injury, and chiropractic care will treat it without opening the way for infection or tissue damage.

Bettering Digestion

When your body isn't in its healthiest alignment, your digestive tract may not work the way it usually does. It might be hard for the body to push food through the digestive tract properly. Many people experience constipation following an injury. But with chiropractic care, your digestive tract has the space it needs. Digestion is a vital part of recovery because you need to eat healthy foods and digest them properly.

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After Chiropractic Care: Follow-Up Care Following a Personal Injury

After you have begun to heal, you can take advantage of the many services we offer at EIH to help you heal. Exercise therapy can help you regain strength and mobility following a personal injury - preparing you do to the everyday physical tasks you do each day. This way, your past injury doesn't limit your life. We prove targeted in-clinic and home exercise programs so you can go back to life as usual, your problems with functioning behind you. In addition, we can help speed the recovery process with manual therapy and massage therapy.

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Treating Personal Injury with Chiropractic Care

When you come to us with a personal injury and chiropractic care is the best solution, we evaluate your injuries and create a customized treatment plan for you. After that, we provide any of the treatments we offer that will work together to help you recover.

In addition to evaluation and treatment from one of our chiropractors, we might recommend complementary treatments like massage or physiotherapy. We work together with you to complete the treatments until you are feeling as pain-free and comfortable as you did before the incident. With your body back in its proper alignment, you can move and stretch as you did before.

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Where to Go in Anchorage for Chiropractic Care After a Personal Injury

If you are in or near Anchorage, Alaska, you can find exceptional personal injury chiropractic care at Excellence in Health. Our chiropractors, chiropractic assistants, and massage therapists work together to promote your healing and recovery.

Our team comes together for you with one goal: to provide the chiropractic care you need to be at your best. Your health and well-being matter to us. Therefore, we aim every treatment at that goal. We only perform treatments that are evidence-based and safe. Then, you can rest easy, knowing that you will soon feel the way you did before the injury happened.

At EIH, we provide care for diverse patients with many different backgrounds and needs. We take many types of insurance and work with you in your unique situation so that you can get chiropractic care when you need it. As credentialed professional care providers, our team offers expert care suitable for those with a personal injury. Our friendly staff welcomes you and treats you with the utmost respect and care.

Looking for expert personal injury treatment? Contact us at Excellence in Health for chiropractic care.