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Relief for Headaches after a Car Accident - Nashville Chiropractor

Relief for Headaches after a Car Accident - Nashville Chiropractor

What are post-traumatic headaches?

Post-traumatic headaches can begin after a car accident. Frequently, post-traumatic headaches are painful and quite debilitating. They can start immediately after a collision or within hours or days.

Whiplash

Whiplash

What is whiplash?  Whiplash is a condition that is most commonly generated from the forces in a rear-end automobile collision.  

While there are certainly many complicated factors that occur during an accident, the following gives a simple explanation of the mechanisms at work.  As the impact occurs, the head and neck are whipped forcefully in a hyperflexed and then hyperextended motion.