How to Choose a Personal Injury Chiropractor After a Car Accident

If you've suffered from a personal injury, many things go through your mind. You may be worried about your car, finances, insurance, or injuries. The last thing you need is to worry about whom you can go to for help.

You may have received immediate care after your car accident or seen your primary physician. They may have suggested that you seek care from a chiropractor since they can help with many issues that may arise after a car crash.

To help ease your troubles, we've created a guide to answer questions such as how to choose a personal injury chiropractor after a car accident. This guide will cover tips on how a chiropractor can help your personal injury claim and questions to ask to find the right chiropractor for your care.

Are you in need of a chiropractor after your car accident? Schedule an appointment with Excellence In Health today!

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What Counts as a Personal Injury?

Personal injuries result from another person's negligence, recklessness, or carelessness. Many people can be entitled to financial compensation for injury-related expenses.

If you've been in a car accident and have injuries resulting from that, you should consider getting compensation for your personal injury. This can help cover the sometimes-costly bills associated with getting medical care.
Car crashes can often include anything from minor to major injuries. Your injuries may include one or many of the following:

• Traumatic brain injuries (TBI)
• Back injuries
• Burns
• Internal injuries
• Fractured and broken bones
• Neck injuries and whiplash
• Knee injuries
• Foot and ankle injuries
• Shoulder injuries
• Wrist and hand injuries
• Soft tissue injuries
• Limb loss or amputation
• Spinal cord injuries and paralysis

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What Can a Chiropractor Help With After a Car Accident?

Although Chiropractors can't help with every injury that results in a car accident, there are many that they can help identify or treat. Chiropractors mainly focus on your musculoskeletal system, including bones, muscles, ligaments, soft tissue, and joints. Their treatment options are non-invasive and do not require prescribed medication.

They offer manual therapy techniques using their hands as their main tool. This can include spinal adjustments where the chiropractor uses controlled thrusts to realign your spine. When you have a spine or neck misalignment, it may cause strain on muscles and other areas of your body that become painful and cause other issues.

Your chiropractor may also use a chiropractic massage to loosen your muscles before your session. They might use trigger point therapy and other soft tissue rehab techniques to support healing.

Many people experience whiplash after a car crash because their body was unexpectedly jolted. A chiropractor can treat whiplash before more severe symptoms occur. They can also help you with other issues that result from your car accident, including:

• Headaches
• Neck pain
• Shoulder pain
• Mid-back pain
• Arm and hand pain, tingling, and numbness
• Stress-related symptoms such as anxiety, confusion, and short-term memory loss
• Leg pain, tingling, and numbness

If you're unsure if a chiropractor can help solve your injuries, you can seek an appointment with one or ask your primary physician.

Are you feeling any symptoms resulting from a car accident? Schedule an appointment with Excellence In Health today!

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How Can a Chiropractor Help With Your Personal Injury?

A chiropractor can help you with many parts of your personal injury. Seeking help soon after your accident can help with your personal injury claim.

Although you would receive the care you need to help with the injury resulting from the accident, you can also use some of these other benefits to help cover the costs of your treatments. You can use the following tips to help with your personal injury claim and what a chiropractor can do for you.

1. Establishing Your Need for Care

When filing an insurance claim, you want to show that you need medical care. Seeking help from your chiropractor right away can help you avoid further symptoms and show that the injury is real and was caused by the accident.
It also shows that you take your health seriously. If you wait to go, it could look suspicious to the insurance company and may show that you weren't hurt seriously in the crash. Establishing your need for care is the best way to have a paper trail of your medical care needs.

2. Creating Documents of Injuries

Similar to seeking help early, it's a good idea to document all injuries that you may be experiencing. This can help your medical care staff understand the extent of your injuries, and the insurance can understand everything that has resulted from the crash.

When documenting your injuries, you should include the details, including the extent of your injury. They should contain notes about your symptoms, including the pain and symptoms that show up later.

3. Diagnosing Additional Problems

With an accident or personal injury, your symptoms may change over time. This can be due to the injury you incurred. Many injuries may show minor to no signs at first, but the delayed symptoms will kick in later after your body's endorphins and adrenaline decrease.

Diagnosing your symptoms can help your chiropractor understand what pain you're feeling and the possible reason behind it. The insurance company may argue that your new injuries and symptoms are unrelated to the accident without documentation.

4. Starting Treatment

After getting diagnosed by your chiropractor, starting treatments right away is crucial. For your injury, it will help your road to recovery and allow your body to get back to normal quicker. It also helps your claim since an insurance adjuster can't argue that the delay affected your injuries.

5. Working With Insurance Companies

Although dealing with insurance companies may be at the bottom of your list of things you'd like to do, it can be very beneficial. The adjusters may try to get you to accept lower settlements, but discussions with them and providing documentation can save you from that hassle.

If you're working with a chiropractor who works with insurance companies like Excellence In Health, you'll have less to worry about. They will submit all medical records to support your claim and work with your insurance and attorney to help ensure a fair and equitable injury settlement.

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What Should You Consider When Trying to Find a Chiropractor After a Car Accident?

You may now know where to start when searching for a chiropractor to help you. The following questions are a guide to help you find a chiropractor that will help you with your auto injury.

• What is your experience with auto injuries?
• Do you work with attorneys or insurance companies?
• Do you have an intake and examination protocol specific to personal injury claims cases?
• Do you refer to and receive referrals from medical doctors?

These guided questions can help you find someone that can help ease the stress of your personal injury claim. Choosing a chiropractor that can work with your personal injury case will help save you both the trouble of paying for treatments.

At Excellence In Health Chiropractic & Rehabilitation Clinic, we know how stressful these situations can be. So we do our best to ensure that you're not stressing about the recovery process and how to pay for treatments.

We honor third-party liens (payment is received when the case is settled). For auto accident treatment, we also accept med-pay, an ongoing payment of treatment through an auto insurance company. Our staff will also communicate extensively with your auto insurance company or attorney to help ensure you're getting the appropriate injury settlement.

Excellence In Health is the Alaskan chiropractor that you're looking for. Don't' wait till your injuries worsen; we'll start to road of recovery together.

Are you ready to schedule your appointment? Contact Excellence In Health today!