Auto Accidents and Disease
9/14/2010
Late Summer 2010
Our staff have recently noticed more accidents on the roads and freeways since the first rains hit Portland and surrounding areas. One of our staff saw three highway accidents within about a mile of each other near downtown.
Roads are certainly more slippery after it rains, especially if it hasn’t rained for a while. Lubricants like oil drip from cars as people drive and these slippery fluids build up on the roads until they are washed away. When you drive after rain, you should be aware that the surface of the road is covered in a thin film of water, oil and grease which makes the road slippery and can cause people to lose control of their cars and increases the risk of an accident.
In this post we would like to provide details on how accidents and injuries, even low speed collisions, can have an affect on how the body handles disease.
The body naturally exists in a state of function and health, it can jump, climb, run, etc. but with each injury or accident the body becomes predisposed to disease. This is a “vicious cycle” in the fullest sense, taking into account the fact that disease can bring about further accidents which bring about further disease.
The magic of chiropractic is that it can actually prevent disease. Look at it this way – the body is not likely to become diseased unless it is operating in a state of mal-function. The true goal of chiropractic is to restore full function to the individual, and factually after an auto accident this can be fairly easy to accomplish and can be very rewarding.
The illness or disease may not occur immediately after the accident.
However, it has been proven that damage is sustained (even in low speed collisions, as stated earlier) and this does increase the chance of disease setting in, with all of the possible symptoms that go along with it.
Scale of Disease Vs. Health
Any person is somewhere on the scale of disease vs. health. A person may have severe disease very early in life, or it may not develop until they’re an adult, or it may never develop at all.
Plainly stated, anyone who has restricted function should receive chiropractic care.
At the start of care, the first thing that occurs is the symptoms lessen or disappear completely.
This usually takes place within the first two weeks of care. Further care addresses the cause of the disease or the disease itself resulting in “no disease”. Continuing care, the body is then strengthened by more treatment and in some cases, exercise routines, so that disease is actually prevented before it can come about. This can be a tough concept to grasp, so here’s an example:
A person has had a rough series of accidents, sports injuries, etc. they then find themselves in a situation where their immune system is weakened – they haven’t been eating well, they’re tired, they’re stressed out from things at home and work. If this person had not received chiropractic care, a disease could occur under those circumstances! But if this person is functioning well enough to handle the potential disease then the disease never has a chance to “latch on”.
The end result of a complete care program is a return of functions.
A returned function may be return of range of motion or ability to use a limb again, increased energy, ability to run again or in short any function that was lost due to accident or injury.
Many of us have suffered trauma and accidents – the thing to realize is that any disease you may be suffering from could be traced back to those stressful times. We have built our clinic with this in mind – we’re here to help!
We invite you to contact us!
