and Whiplash

A "fender bender" automobile accident that occurs at just eight miles an hour can cause neck pain for up to eleven years if left untreated.

A whiplash is the overstretching of all the neck muscles, ligaments, tendons, arteries, veins, nerves, and spinal cord. When the collision occurs, the seven cervical vertebra rock back and forth with forces hard enough for your chin to touch your chest and the base of your head to touch your mid-back.

The whiplash action bruises both the spinal cord and spinal nerves, and misaligns the cervical vertebra.

Specific treatments of the neck or cervical vertebra misalignments are essential to insure proper healing. The consequences of not straightening traumatically induced misalignments are early arthritis, disc herniations, pain, permanent nerve damage, surgery, paraplegia or quadraplegia. To prevent a lifetime of disability and pain, call Dr. Stotts office for a free consultation whenever you are involved in an automobile or other accident that causes whiplash.