Chiropractic Eases Jaw Pain After Auto Injury in Largo
Jaw or TMJ pain is a fairly typical problem reported by many people after a auto collision, and it can be difficult for some doctors to find the source of the problem. Complicating the issue, oftentimes you won't develop TMJ symptoms until many weeks or months after the accident.
Spinal Health Chiropractic Center has helped many men and women with jaw pain after an injury, and the medical research explains what triggers these types of problems. During a auto accident, the tissues in your spine are oftentimes stretched or torn, causing ligament, muscle, or nerve injury. This can obviously cause pain in the neck and back, but since your central nervous system is one functioning unit, irritation of the nerves can cause issues in other parts of your body.
For example, with radicular pain, irritation of a nerve can cause prickling or pins and needles in the arm or hand. Similarly, it can affect parts of your body above the injured tissues, like your head and jaw. Headaches after car accident are very common because of neck injury, and the TMJ works the same way. Spinal Health Chiropractic Center sees this very often in our Largo office.
Research Shows Chiropractic Care Helps TMJ Pain After Auto Accident
Studies have shown that the root of many jaw or TMJ problems originates in the neck and that treatment of the underlying neck injury can resolve the secondary headaches or jaw symptoms. The trick to dealing with these symptoms is simple: Spinal Health Chiropractic Center will work to restore your spinal column back to health, reducing the inflammatory reaction, treating the injured tissues, and lessening the irritation to the nerves in your spine.
Spinal Health Chiropractic Center finds that jaw and headache symptoms often resolve once we return your spine to its healthy condition.
If you reside in Largo and you've been hurt in a car crash, Spinal Health Chiropractic Center can help. We've been working with auto injury patients for many years and we can most likely help you, too. Give our office a call today at (727) 531-4444 for an appointment or consultation.
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Dr. Stanganelli
Dr. Stanganelli graduated from the University of South Florida in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geology and earned his Doctor of Chiropractic in 2002 from Life University in Marietta, Georgia. Dr. Stanganelli is a native of Amsterdam, New York and moved to Clearwater, Florida in 1978. He practiced in Texas and Florida for 5 years until establishing "Spinal Health Chiropractic Center" in Largo, Florida in 2007.