If you currently struggle with pain in your neck, you may wonder what you did to hurt yourself. The complex structure of the neck offers several potential causes for discomfort, which is why you need a professional evaluation and treatment.

Acute injuries can cause severe pain, stiffness and damage to the vertebrae, discs, tissues and nerves in the neck. For example, whiplash, a common car accident injury, occurs when a jolt slings your head forward and backward aggressively. This kind of car accident injury can leave you with a herniated disc that pinches surrounding nerves. Muscle or ligament damage can also contribute to neck pain.

Not all injuries take place in such a dramatic fashion, though -- in fact, you can have a chronic neck problem that takes years before the pain became obvious or disabling. Many office workers develop chronic neck issues after years of stooping or craning their necks to compensate for non-ergonomic workstations. Spinal degeneration can also lurk undetected for a long time before causing pain. Spinal stenosis, a narrowing the small canal that houses your spinal cord, can cause pain that gets progressively worse without treatment. Spinal compression due to worn or bulging discs can also develop into a serious neck problem over time, especially if bone spurs begin to push against nerves. Nerve impingement can also cause problems in other parts of your body, including numbness or weakness in the hands and feet.

Let Dr. Lurie Alleviate Your Pain

You should always get your neck evaluated if you have pain, if only to rule out possible illnesses such as meningitis. Here at The Neck and Back Clinics in Las Vegas, our chiropractor, Dr. Lurie, has many years of experience in diagnosing and treating neck problems. Our combination of chiropractic care, massage therapy and decompression techniques can correct imbalances that cause muscular tension, free pinched nerves and help damaged discs heal. Let us help you relieve your neck pain

Have you ever hurt your neck in a car accident? Did you turn to chiropractic care for help?

Personal injury is commonly treated with chiropractic care. Our Las Vegas chiropractor will assist with pain management and posture correction due to musculoskeletal injuries which occur in the spine and joints. Alignment is important for proper function of muscles, bones and nerves. Reoccurring back pain, neck pain or headaches may be caused by personal injuries. Generally personal injuries happen during car accidents, sports and work place incidents.

Personal Injury Due to Car Accidents, Sports and Work Place Activities

Whiplash injury is a personal injury which is frequently the result of a car accident. Stiffness in the neck and back appears because of the force of the collision impact. Sports injuries include sprains and strains in the back and neck as well as knee injuries and concussions. Work related injuries may include poor posture, slip and fall accidents causing slipped discs in the back and carpal tunnel syndrome. One of the most common work place injuries is carpal tunnel syndrome.

Carpal tunnel can be caused by repetitive movements while typing at a computer or working on a manufacturing assembly line. This injury is one of the most widespread injuries in the workplace. It affects millions of workers and is set off by pressure on the median nerve just above your wrist. The nerve pressure can be triggered by common repetitive work activities such a typing, chopping, hammering and pushing. Symptoms of carpel tunnel wrist pain, numbness, burning, tingling, weakness and loss of grip. Sufferers may also experience sleepless nights because of the pain and discomfort.

Our chiropractor will treat your carpal tunnel and other personal injuries with an individualized chiropractic care program. Spinal adjustments to correct misalignment in the neck and back, physical therapy exercises such as stretching and strengthening exercises are effective for treating your pain and healing your injuries. With the proper care and treatment we will help relieve your pain and eventually assist in eliminating it. Visit our chiropractic clinic today for a full consultation.

Have you benefited from chiropractic care for your personal injury?

Migraine sufferers can find lasting, effective pain relief through non-invasive chiropractic care methods. Headaches and migraines are often the result of triggers such as excessive stress or certain foods. However, a personal injury or car accident injury such as whiplash can lead to headache and migraine pain as well. Fortunately, our chiropractor can implement natural healing techniques to help patients with their pain management and healing.

What’s Causing Your Headaches and Migraines?

If you have been involved in a car accident, one of the symptoms that can arise is headache pain. While injuries may not appear right away, being involved in a collision can cause misalignment of the spine, which can then lead to neck pain and recurring headaches. By visiting our chiropractor following a car accident, he will be able to make an assessment of your spinal health and create a plan tailored to you.

In addition to car accidents, long periods of stress and tension are familiar migraine triggers. Work stress, family stress during holidays and weekends are all situations that may prompt migraine headaches. Even stress and tension on the body as a result of a car accident can cause a change in the cerebral blood flow, which activates certain types of headaches and migraines.

Another migraine culprit involves certain foods. Chocolate, caffeine, nitrates, cheeses and nuts are all foods that are famous for setting off migraine pain. If you constantly suffer from migraines, then you may want to look at your diet and change the way you eat to see if you can identify the food that may be contributing to your headache pain.

Our Las Vegas chiropractor can implement chiropractic care methods to manage and treat your headaches and migraines. Chiropractic treatments are used to reduce the severity and frequency of migraine headaches through adjustments and massage therapy. Spinal adjustments can help with realignment and range of motion, which relieves restriction of movement in the neck and back. This will also correct any postural problems that may be contributing to your headache pain. Once your vertebrae are aligned, massage can help relax your tense muscles and increase blood flow which may help reduce some of the cerebral pain. 

Managing and eliminating your headache pain through non-invasive, drug-free methods is the goal of our Las Vegas chiropractor. He will work to give you the treatments you need for your migraine headache no matter what triggers it. Visit our chiropractic clinic today for all of your personal injury and migraine headache treatment needs.

What are some of the things that trigger your migraine headaches?

Whiplash is a common car accident injury treated by our Las Vegas chiropractor. It generally causes neck pain, back pain, headaches and migraines. Whiplash typically occurs upon impact during a collision accident when the neck is “whipped” back and forth, as well as side to side, stretching it beyond its normal range of motion. This type of injury can result in damage to the muscles and tissues in your neck and back. Common symptoms can include neck and back pain, nausea, dizziness, headaches and migraines.

Car Accident Injury Patients Seek Pain Relief Through Chiropractic Care

Our Las Vegas chiropractor will treat your car accident injury with a combination of spinal adjustments, corrective exercises, physical therapy and massage therapy. He will design a chiropractic care plan for your individual needs and circumstances. Spinal adjustments assist in re-aligning the neck and spine which usually get pushed out of alignment with a whiplash injury. A series of spinal adjustments are generally needed to treat whiplash. Physical therapy or corrective exercises are used to strengthen neck and back muscles, which aides in healing. Massage therapy is used to relax the muscles after you have done the spinal adjustments and corrective exercise our massage therapist can help in pampering your muscles and using massage to promote healing in the deep tissues in your neck. Headaches and migraines may be successfully treated with chiropractic care techniques as well.

Since pain management is one of the challenges for car accident injury patients, our chiropractor strives to provide you with the best pain management and chiropractic healing plan possible. At The Neck and Back Clinics, we will not only treat your pain and injury symptoms; our goal is to heal the injury completely so the pain is eliminated. Visit our office today for your back pain, neck pain and other musculoskeletal pain and get the pain relief you deserve.

Did your last car accident injury result in whiplash pain?