Hi, I'm Dr.
Steven Battaglino
with Battaglino Family Chiropractic.
I want to talk a little bit about chiropractic
and whiplash.
Specifically
what whiplash is,
what causes it,
and how chiropractic can help heal
from whiplash.
So, when you're in a car accident
and you get hit from behind.
Let's say you're parked
or at a red light,
someone rear ends you from behind.
What happens.
This is the spine from the side view,
you're looking this way.
You get hit from behind and
you know the headrests that are in most
cars, even that nice fancy cars,
are just not very good.
That's a whole other subject,
but basically the
rest makes contact
with the back of the head.
This is the base of the skull here.
So the heads like this.
The head makes contact
with the headrest
or maybe it doesn't in most cases.
When there's an impact from behind,
the head
goes like this.
And the spine
and the neck kind of gets folded
into that area where there's no
headrest.
So,
basically you're getting
hit from behind.
It's doing this
and then you're getting flung forward
like this
and then you're coming back to neutral.
Technically, whiplash is called a hyperextension-hyperflexion
injury.
So, hyper means you're doing it too much.
You're extending
and then you're whipping forward
and then you're coming back like that.
So, there's a lot of injury that can happen
in that little moment of time.
There's tearing of ligaments
and
muscles around the neck.
But also the discs
get injured.
You can see these are the bones of the spine
and the cervical spine,
the neck.
And then from the front we see some discs.
These are called intervertebral discs,
they're like little shock absorbers in between
each of these bones.
They're soft tissue,
there you know tough
and durable but they're still soft tissue.
And they separate the bones
out to create spaces for
these nerves to come out.
You've got a lot of nerve flow coming out of the neck.
If you think about all the fine
motor skills that you can do
and all the sensitive touch that you
have in your fingers
and hands.
And plus all the muscles
and all the different organs that
get run from this area,
there's a lot of nerve flow that comes out of these
cables.
So, when there's an injury like
a whiplash you're doing injury
to, not only the muscles
and ligaments, but also to
these discs and to these nerves.
So, we want to try
and rehab this injury
so that it heals well.
And so the symptoms go away.
But also so that long term you're
not going to have an injured neck that just
gets worse and worse.
Chiropractic is the solution
for this because you know this is a structural
problem where the
disc. You know when you have
an injury it's
doing this to the disc.
It's stretching it out
and injuring it that way.
So, the disk is supposed to sit like this like
a shock absorber, so it's suppose to do
this.
When it comes like this,
it is,
you know going to injure that disk,
the fibers inside it.
So, it'll start to swell.
That's the body's first reaction.
It will swell into
the cavity where these nerves are coming out.
The nervous swell because it's
been injured.
And the body really
can't fix all of it.
It just, the best that I can do is
to immobilize it
and keep it from getting more
hurt. So, the muscles get really tight
and limit any range of
motion. It gets really stiff.
It's just like a cast.
So instead of putting like a plaster
of paris cast around the neck,
the body is using those muscles to splint
the area.
So, the muscles get really sore
and tight as well over time.
What we want to do is reverse this
problem
and create better
alignment in those areas that have been injured
so that they can heal properly.
Take pressure off the discs
and nerves
and the pain goes away
and then the muscles relax
and so everything starts to heal up.
And you know the pain goes away,
which is the main
complaint that patients typically have
after an injury like this.
But again these nerves are going to run really
important things,
we want to make sure that nerve flow going to these
nerves is, you know,
turned up.
I'm Dr.
Steve Battaglino with Battaglino Family Chiropractic
and this has been your health minute.

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