Pain Management Treatment Auto Accident
Pain Management
When you’re in a car accident, the forces from the crash can cause your body to experience more stress than usual. This additional stress can result in soft tissue injuries, such as sprains, strains), concussions, and tears). The symptoms may appear right away or take time to develop.
Regardless of immediate or delayed pain, it’s important to seek treatment from a pain management specialist at Shingle Creek Medical Group as soon as possible after an auto accident. This allows you to begin therapy quickly and prevents further injury. It also minimizes risks associated with delaying care.
Common Delayed Injuries After A Crash
Symptoms often take hours or days to appear, especially in minor collisions. Many common auto accident injuries develop over time, such as:
- Whiplash – Neck pain or stiffness from strained muscles and ligaments
- Headaches – Tension headaches or migraines resulting from neck injuries
- Back Pain – Spinal disc, muscle or ligament strains in the lower back
- Extremities Pain – Wrist, elbow, knee or ankle sprains or strains
- Shoulder Pain – Rotator cuff tears or impingement from sudden motions
- Cognitive Problems – Impaired thinking and memory from mild traumatic brain injury
Benefits of Early Pain Management
Seeing one of our pain management doctors quickly after an accident provides many benefits:
- Thorough evaluation to detect underlying damage
- Earlier treatment and recovery
- Reduce risk of chronic pain developing
- Lower medical costs
- Maintain right to injury compensation
- Prevent health complications
Pain Treatment Options at Our Clinic
Based on exam findings and injury severity, we provide customized pain relief including:
- Physical Therapy – Stretches and exercises restore joint mobility and strength.
- Chiropractic – Spinal adjustments bring the back into proper alignment.
- Massage – Medical massage loosens tight, injured muscles.
- Injections – Anti-inflammatories and nerve blocks alleviate localized pain.
- Rehab – Physical rehabilitation retrains muscles and improves function.
- Stimulation – Electrical stimulation helps reduce nerve pain signals.
- Medication – Prescription medications manage severe or chronic pain.
- Surgery – Surgeries like disc repair or joint reconstruction for serious injuries.
Pain Management Therapys
1. Analgesics: Medications used to relieve pain, such as opioids, NSAIDs, acetaminophen. Understanding the different classes of analgesics and their mechanisms is important.
2. Multimodal analgesia: Using multiple types of medications and non-pharmacologic therapies to target pain through different mechanisms. This allows lower doses of medications and improves efficacy.
3. Adjuvant analgesics: Medications that are not pure analgesics but have pain relieving properties, like antidepressants and anticonvulsants. These are commonly used for neuropathic pain.
4. Side effects: All analgesics have risks and side effects that must be considered, like addiction and organ damage. Managing side effects is a priority.
5. Interventional procedures: Techniques like nerve blocks, epidural steroid injections, and neurostimulators can provide targeted pain relief. Knowing when these are appropriate is key.
6. Physical therapy: Stretching, strength training, etc. is critical for improving function and reducing pain for many conditions, like back pain. PT is a core component of care.
7. Behavioral approaches: Techniques like CBT, mindfulness, biofeedback help patients cope with the emotional and mental aspects of chronic pain. Psychology impacts the pain experience.
8. Multidisciplinary care: Combining medications, procedures, PT, psychology, and more into an integrated treatment plan provides optimal outcomes. Teams are better than solo treatment.
9. Patient education: Teaching patients about their condition, treatment options, self-management is essential to empower them as partners in care.
10. Risk assessment: Screening for and monitoring substance misuse, depression, safety risks is crucial when treating with opioids and other analgesics.
Schedule An Appointment
Delaying medical care after an auto accident can worsen injuries and pain over time. At Shingle Creek Medical Group, our pain management experts help patients recover with individualized, comprehensive therapy. We aim to relieve pain and restore quality of life after a crash. Contact us to start specialized care and feel better soon. Call 763-244-8022
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Are you looking for non-invasive treatment options for your auto accident injury? Shingle Creek Medical treats many different types of car accident injuries, including whiplash, sprains, strains, as well as back, neck, and joint injuries that can result from low speed, rear-end collisions schedule an appointment.