People get involved in car accidents that result in injuries that can be expensive to deal with every day. A chiropractor can help accelerate your recovery from various accident injuries. To quicken your recovery and healing, your chiropractor manipulates and adjusts your sites of injuries to promote the release of a hormone called interleukin -6. This hormone reduces inflammation and pain so your body can heal faster. 

Thankfully, there are many chiropractic treatment options available, and below are the most powerful ones you need to quicken your recovery from auto accident injuries.

Whiplash Treatments

When you get into an auto accident, whiplash is among the most common injuries you can incur. Whiplash is an injury you get when a car accident hurts your neck due to forceful and rapid back-and-forth movements.

In the acute stage of whiplash injuries, a chiropractor can help by focusing on reducing inflammation within your neck. They will adjust your neck muscles to relieve pain and ensure discs get back to their normal alignments and positions. 

If your whiplash injuries are severe, the chiropractor will combine their spinal adjustments approaches with therapeutic methods to help reduce muscle spasms, limit neck stiffness and increase blood circulation within and around your neck and its surrounding organs. For example, they will employ ultrasounds to send sound waves to the injury site to create gentle heat that encourages muscle relaxation.

Cervical Adjustments

When you get in an accident and suffer neck pain resulting in severe and regular headaches, chiropractic cervical adjustments are the best treatments you need. Your chiropractor will massage your neck through gentle touches that help release pressure and stretch the neck in different directions—up, down, side-to-side, and back-and-forth. This accelerates your recovery by reducing inflammation while encouraging the proper circulation of blood to the sites of injuries.

Chiropractic Traction

If you get an accident resulting in general back, joint, and muscle disc pain, chiropractic traction is the most effective recovery technique for such injuries. Traction treats and relieves pain, plus corrects posture malfunctions. Your chiropractor carries out traction by applying gentle pressure to your back, head, and limbs. 

General Spinal Manipulation

When performing the general spinal manipulation, your chiropractor treats and relieves pain for various injuries you incur in an accident, such as head and neck injuries. The technique also involves various methods such as instrument-assisted manipulation and flexion-distraction. For example, flexion-distraction consists of the chiropractor's use of hands-on gentle messages and spinal adjustments to treat injured muscle discs. 

For more information or for treatment, turn to a chiropractic clinic near you.