TMJ Pain Relief with Chiropractic After Auto Accident

Jaw pain is a fairly common condition experienced by many people after a car accident, and it can be challenging for some doctors to find the cause of the problem. Complicating the matter, oftentimes you won't develop TMJ symptoms until many weeks or months after the accident.

Back Pain Chiropractic has treated many people with jaw pain after an injury, and the medical research explains what triggers these types of problems. During a auto accident, the tissues in your neck are often stretched or torn, causing ligament, muscle, or nerve injury. This can obviously cause pain in the neck and back, but since your nervous system is one functioning unit, irritation of the nerves can cause issues in other parts of your body.

For instance, with radicular pain, irritation of a nerve can cause prickling or numbness 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 crash are very common because of neck injury, and the jaw works the same way. Back Pain Chiropractic sees this very often in our Texarkana office.

Research Proves Chiropractic Treatment Helps TMJ Pain After Auto Accident

Studies have shown that the source of many jaw or TMJ symptoms begins in the neck and that treatment of the underlying neck injury can fix the secondary headaches or jaw symptoms. The key to resolving these symptoms is simple: Back Pain Chiropractic will work to restore your spine back to health, decreasing the inflammatory reaction, treating the injured areas, and lessening the irritation to the nerves in your spine.

Back Pain Chiropractic has found that jaw and headache symptoms often resolve once we return your spine to its healthy condition.

If you live in Texarkana and you've been hurt in a crash, Back Pain Chiropractic can help. We've been working with auto injury patients for many years and we can probably help you, too. Give our office a call today at (870) 774-0951 for an appointment or consultation.

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