When it comes to Auto Accidents, even in very low impact (low speed) accidents (collisions) your body could experience a significant amount of trauma or damage. Because you are excited as a result of the accident, your body releases certain chemicals... endorphins, enkeplins and adrenalin, which can cover up your pain or prevent you from feeling the pain and as a result you may feel little or no pain or discomfort for several days or possibly several weeks. So the abscence of pain does not indicate the abscence of problems.

An example of this would be like when you hit the curb with your car tire, the car seems to run fine, but months later you find that the tires are all worn out because the front end is misaligned. Whereas, the same goes for your spine, your discs and your joints. The damage done can wear at an accelerated rate so that your spine winds up being 20-30 years older than the rest of your body. Because of the damage the misalignment causes, the problems and the pain may become permanent.

There is proof of this relationship between the structure and function of an object or system that can be found in every engineering text, physics text, chemistry text, anatomy text and physiology text ever written. The spine of your neck and low back is not an exception to the rule of "Structure Dictates Function".

On the aspect of functionality, your body will give you sensations of pain when you have already damaged your body beyond where it is capable of coping or managing itself (as in releasing your natural pain killers.) Just like the oil light turning on in your car's dashboard, the light is not the problem. If it was you could cover the light up and not have the problem seen anymore....but the problem is really that the engine has already been damaged. So put more oil in now to prevent any further damage.

So covering up your pains with medications or over the counter medicines does not fix problems...what it does is hide or mask the problem to make it manageable enough to carry on with your daily life. This again, will potentially lead you to damage your body more and more until the problem becomes extreme or it is too late.

So, when you have a car accident, we recommend you to get yourself checked out by a biomechanical specialist to help ensure your health and functionality.

As a precautionary measure, we recommend you have a checklist and a pen kept in your vehicle incase you have an accident. This way you can gather all the information that you may need in order to process your accident claim.

For our Free Vehicle Accident Information Checklist click here.