A long standing patient presented the other day for regular "maintenance" care and happened to mention her daughter had been complaining about increasing neck and back pain over the past month. One question I frequently ask is "What do you think is going on?" With a moment of hesitation she says "Maybe it was the car accident she was in last month."
I'm regularly amazed at how Chiropractic is viewed in the eyes of the public. The mother of this teenager never considered a young person needing chiropractic care... even after a significant trauma! ( Had I neglected to ever speak to her about structure / function / health and her family? )
After a short conversation about helping her teenaged daughter she said the 6 words Chiropractors hear all too often... "We thought it would go away."
Anna started care that week. Thankfully, here condition was fairly straight forward and she recovered well.
The moral of the story... Auto injuries are serious and kids need Chiropractic too. Just because they are young and bendy does not eliminate the fact that bones move, muscles strain and nerves get irritated. If left untreated, long term issues can be expected into adulthood.
Tigard's Whiplash and Auto Injury Clinic
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