TMJ Pain Eased by Chiropractic After Auto Collision

Jaw or TMJ pain is a fairly typical problem experienced by people after a car accident, and it can be hard for some health practitioners to find the cause of the problem. Complicating the issue, many times you won't develop TMJ symptoms until many weeks or months after the incident.

Dynamic Chiropractic has treated many men and women with jaw pain after an injury, and the scientific research explains what produces these types of problems. During a car accident, the tissues in your neck are oftentimes stretched or torn, causing ligament, muscle, or nerve damage. This can clearly cause pain in the neck and back, but since your central nervous system is one functioning unit, inflammation of the nerves can cause pain in other parts of your body.

For example, with radicular pain, irritation of a nerve can cause prickling or pins and needles in the arm and hand. Similarly, it can affect parts of your body above the injured area, like your head and jaw. Headaches after car accident are very common because of neck injury, and the TMJ works the same way. Dynamic Chiropractic sees this very commonly in our Memphis office.

Research Proves Chiropractic Therapy Lessens TMJ Pain After Auto Accident

Research shows that the source of many jaw or TMJ symptoms begins in the cervical spine and that treatment of the underlying neck problem can fix the secondary headaches or jaw symptoms. The trick to resolving these symptoms is simple: Dynamic Chiropractic will work to return your spine back to health, decreasing the inflammation, treating the injured areas, and eliminating the irritation to the nerves in your spine.

Dynamic Chiropractic finds that jaw and headache symptoms often resolve once we restore your spine to its healthy condition.

If you reside in Memphis and you've been injured in a car crash, Dynamic Chiropractic can help. We've been treating auto injury patients for many years and we can probably help you, too. Give our office a call today at (901) 757-8311 for an appointment or consultation.

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