Tips on Handling a Greensboro Car Accident

Just because your car can be quickly repaired after an accident does not mean your body is automatically repaired. Car accidents can leave you with immediate symptoms, such as back pain, neck pain, or pain coupled with stiffness. Or an injury can fester for weeks, months, or even longer without any symptoms at all. Headaches, back aches and other issues can develop down the road, long after an accident occurred.

Whiplash and Other Injuries Can Take Months to Show Symptoms

That means one of the first things you should do following a car accident is visit Alternative Health Clinic. Dr. Jeff Lissenden has extensive experience treating injuries resulting from any number of causes, including whiplash and others stemming from auto accidents.

While you are still on the accident scene, however, a visit to our chiropractor is not necessarily your immediate concern. Your first priority is to remain calm – take deep breaths – and check for injuries, both to yourself and others involved. Call 911 to report injuries that need immediate medical attention and the accident. Police are typically dispatched to major accidents with injuries and the dispatcher will let you know if they are on their way.

If the accident was minor, had no apparent injuries, and police are not being sent, move your vehicle to a safe location, such as a nearby parking lot, to trade insurance and contact information with the other parties involved. You can still file a police report after the fact to have it on record.

Do not hesitate to go to the emergency room if you start to experience severe symptoms after the crash. Damage can lurk beneath the surface. Even if you do not need an emergency room visit, do schedule one with Dr. Jeff. Our Greensboro chiropractor will perform a thorough exam to check for whiplash injury and other damage that can be corrected with chiropractic techniques instead of left to develop into more severe and permanent problems.

What suggestions or tips do you have for other about handling a car accident?