car accidents

finding and healing undiagnosed concussions

Concussions from a car accident are a major, very common, unrecognized, undiagnosed health concern. Emergency rooms don’t check for them and neither do chiropractors. I do, and I have special training in finding and treating them.

Most people don’t realize that you do not have to hit your head to have a concussion. You’ve heard of “shaken baby syndrome,” where a baby’s delicate brain is damaged by shaking the child? Your adult brain can also be damaged by the traumatic and sudden shaking from a whiplash. This produces many symptoms after an accident that you may not understand are actually caused by a concussion:

• fatigue
• nausea
• confusion
• irritability
• sadness
• headaches
• dizziness
• difficulty concentrating or remembering words or numbers
• depression
• anxiety

Without specific treatment, some concussions will heal and some won’t. An untreated concussion can cause major and lasting health problems and behavioral changes. I treat concussions in three powerful ways.

1. Reducing brain tension with Advanced Biostructural Correction The meninges is the covering of the brain and spinal cord. Part of the ABC treatment is a very specific kind of stretch to the meninges, which reduces tension on the brain and spinal cord. This is often very effective in reducing the symptoms of a concussion.

2. Removing brain pressure with the Turner Cranial Technique If the head has been hit, the cranial bones shift and the shape of the head changes. This can cause localized pressure on the brain and reduce the nourishing and cleansing flow of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain, creating major and difficult symptoms. By adjusting the cranial bones, proper flow of cerebrospinal fluid is restored and symptoms can improve dramatically.

3. Restoring mental function with brain exercises If necessary, I prescribe you specific, enjoyable exercises to stimulate areas of the brain injured in the accident and speed your recovery.diagnosing and treating severe ligament damage

When you sprain your ankle, what you actually do is tear the ligaments that hold together the bones in your ankle. If the tear is severe enough, it may not heal properly and your ankle may never be “right” after that.

The bones in your spine are held together by ligaments also, and if you have a whiplash from a high-speed crash, these ligaments can be severely torn too. After a major tear, they may never mend. I have found two treatments that help heal ligament tears – topical patches infused with Chinese herbs to stimulate microcirculation, and the Cutting Edge therapeutic laser, a painless and very powerful way to heal injured ligaments, tendons, and discs.