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We offer comprehensive, quality care for patients who suffer from acute or chronic pain due to a specific physical condition or injury. By getting to the cause of your physical problems and not simply dealing with symptoms, we can help you sustain a pain-free life and achieve optimal results in functioning and performance. Below are a few of the conditions we treat:
Whiplash
Whiplash is a term used to describe neck pain caused by an abnormal motion or force applied to your neck that causes movement beyond the neck’s normal range of motion. Whiplash refers to injury of the soft tissues of your neck (specifically ligaments, tendons, and muscles).
Whiplash is commonly associated with car accidents but can also happen during sporting activities, accidental falls, bodily assault as well as repetitive stress injury and chronic strain.
Left untreated consequences of whiplash can vary from mild pain for a few days, to severe disability caused by restricted head movement of the cervical spine sometimes accompanied with persistent pain.
Signs and Symptoms of Whiplash
If you have one or more of the above symptoms, and feel you may be afflicted with Whiplash call us at 352-644-7707, chat with one of our staff members now standing by, or email us at dralex@ocalainjurycenter.com.
Shoulder and Neck Pain
Shoulder and Neck Pain
Most shoulder and neck pain are a result from injury to the muscles and ligaments in the shoulder and neck area. Although many can be identified as simple strains or contusions, some may be signs of life threatening conditions such as heart attack or major trauma.
Causes of Shoulder and Neck Pain:
If you have Shoulder and Neck Pain and believe you may be afflicted with one of the above call us at 352-644-7707, chat with one of our staff members now standing by, or email us at dralex@ocalainjurycenter.com.
Car Seat Belt Injury
Car Seat Belt Injury
Seat belt injuries are very common during a car accident and generally occur when the force of the accident is relatively severe, or the seat belt is used improperly.
Types of Seat Belt injuries:
To prevent Seat belt injuries:
If you have been involved in an accident call us at 352-644-7707, chat with one of our staff members now standing by, or email us at dralex@ocalainjurycenter.com.
Lower Back Pain
Lower Back Pain
The most common of ailments is lower back pain. This type of pain tends to be localized to the lower back, buttocks, and sometimes the top of the legs.
Low back pain can incorporate a wide variety of symptoms. It can be mild and merely annoying or it can be severe and debilitating. Low back pain may start suddenly, or it could start slowly—possibly coming and going—and gradually get worse over time.
Symptoms can include the following:
If you are suffering from lower back pain call us at 352-644-7707, chat with one of our staff members now standing by, or email us at dralex@ocalainjurycenter.com.
Car Accident Pain
Car accident pain is one of the worst and most prevalent types of chronic pain. The tremendous forces created during a car accident are enough to tear apart soft tissue and shatter bone. Life altering spinal injuries are often the result of serious automobile wrecks and even minor fender benders can create some significant back ache complaints.
The spine is the most important part of our skeletons. Spinal injuries are common in serious automobile accidents. Vertebral fracture and spinal instability can result from the nightmarish force of a high speed collision. Occupants who are ejected from a moving vehicle face an even greater risk of spinal fracture, serious injury or death. Many spinal injuries require immediate back surgery and may leave the patient permanently affected in form and function.
If you have been seriously hurt in an automobile accident, be happy to be alive. Your situation could always be worse, regardless of the extent of your injuries. Concentrate on your recovery and try to make the best of the functionality you still possess. Contacting a licensed Chiropractor that concentrates in Auto Injury relief and therapy is one of the first moves to make.
Call us at 352-644-7707, chat with one of our staff members now standing by, or email us at dralex@ocalainjurycenter.com.
Sprains and Strains
Sprains and Strains
A strain occurs when the muscle tendon unit is stretched or torn. Although the most common reason is the overuse and stretching of the muscles accidental injuries can also cause sprains and strains.
Damage may occur in three areas:
Joints are stabilized by thick bands of tissue called ligaments which surround them. These ligaments allow the joint to move only in specific directions. Some joints move in multiple planes; therefore, they need more than one group of ligaments to hold the joint in proper alignment. The ligaments are anchored to bone on each side of the joint. If a ligament is stretched or torn, the injury is called a sprain.
Call us at 352-644-7707, chat with one of our staff members now standing by, or email us at dralex@ocalainjurycenter.com.
Pain in Legs or Arms
Pain in Legs or Arms
The cause of many instances of shoulder or arm pain is obvious. You do something to injure the arm or shoulder and immediately feel pain, such as in an auto accident. You may have broken a bone or dislocated your shoulder.
Maybe you strained tendons or ligaments by carrying too much weight, or lifted something that was too heavy. You may have overreached or overexerted your arms, maybe while playing a sport. The pain that results may range from an annoying ache to a more acute pain that makes it hard for you to use the injured arm or leg.
There are other, less-obvious causes of shoulder or arm pain. Each is distinguished by where it is felt, whether it comes on suddenly or over time, when it is at its worst, if the pain extends to other joints in your body, and if other symptoms—such as swelling, numbness, tingling, fever, fatigue, and insomnia—accompany the pain. The causes of shoulder and arm pain include tendonitis, bursitis, arthritis, and gout. Such pain may also result from a reaction to medications such as penicillin, anti-anxiety drugs, and oral contraceptives. Whiplash injuries, common in auto accidents, can also cause shoulder and arm pain.
Shoulder and arm pain may be referred from some other region of the body, as when someone suffering a heart attack feels pain in the left shoulder and down the left arm. The pain may also be referred from nerves associated with the joints in the upper spine or “trigger points” in the back, which are particularly responsive to chiropractic spinal adjustments designed to treat such problems.
Legs are generally abused from standing or sitting for long periods of time. It is important to stretch, massage, and incorporate joint movement to get pain relief. The knee is a complex joint influenced by muscles from above and below the joint. Car accident injuries that damage these parts of the leg require special attention.
Call us at 352-644-7707, chat with one of our staff members now standing by, or email us at dralex@ocalainjurycenter.com.
Headaches
Headaches
Many times after a car accident people will have initial neck pain, are seen in the emergency room and treated. If the injuries are not life threatening they are sent home with some medication and told to rest. Unfortunately, many will start to have headaches, even if they have never had headaches before. Those with a history of headaches will find their headaches are getting worse.
Most of the time the headache will dissipate over a week or two and everything will be fine.
But what if the headaches don’t go away? What happens and what do people do if the headache gets worse? Post traumatic headaches that get better in four to six weeks are considered acute headaches, but those that stay at the same pain level, start to get worse, or go beyond six weeks are more concerning. The headaches may be all over the head and moderate in pain with breakthrough stabbing, throbbing pain on one side. This more severe form of headache is associated with migraine symptoms and indeed is a migraine.
The key to post traumatic headache syndrome is to find a headache specialist and be patient. If the headaches are severe, chances are that it will take several months for any one treatment to have an effect. Most people are not aware of this fact in headache treatment, so they tend to start and stop treatments after a few days or weeks and become discouraged. The longer the brain has the treatments on board, the greater the chance it will heal.
Call us at 352-644-7707, chat with one of our staff members now standing by, or email us at dralex@ocalainjurycenter.com.
Dizziness & Vertigo
Dizziness & Vertigo
Dizziness is a common description for many different feelings. Vertigo/dizziness is a complaint that has been documented as a finding after car crashes much scientific literature. One source stated that 15% of car crash victims will experience vertiginous symptoms and 4% will have associated tinnitis (ringing in the ears). This is especially true in the case of rear impact collisions. The feeling of dizziness may be very familiar to you, yet difficult to describe.
Vertigo is a medical term to describe the feeling of spinning, whirling, or motion either of yourself or your surroundings. This is the same feeling you might have after getting off a merry-go-round or spinning in place. Several diseases of the balance organs of the inner ear can cause vertigo, or it may be a symptom of a tumor or stroke. It may also be a result of an injury.
Dizziness may be just mildly annoying or caused by something possibly life threatening. Often after an auto accident injury people experience this as a symptom of the injury sustained.
When you might feel dizziness:
Joints are stabilized by thick bands of tissue called ligaments which surround them. These ligaments allow the joint to move only in specific directions. Some joints move in multiple planes; therefore, they need more than one group of ligaments to hold the joint in proper alignment. The ligaments are anchored to bone on each side of the joint. If a ligament is stretched or torn, the injury is called a sprain.
Call us at 352-644-7707, chat with one of our staff members now standing by, or email us at dralex@ocalainjurycenter.com.
Numbness
Numbness
Numbness and tingling down the arms and legs, also known as paresthesia, can also include symptoms such as pain, burning, pricking, or creeping along the skin. These symptoms generally indicate a malfunction of sensory nerves.
While many sufferers of numbness, tingling, and pain in their arms and legs recall specific traumas such as head injuries, auto accidents or falls, which could have injured their spines, some do not. An examination is necessary in each individual’s case to assess whether an injury is present and what care can be achieved.
Call us at 352-644-7707, chat with one of our staff members now standing by, or email us at dralex@ocalainjurycenter.com.