Jaw pain is a fairly common condition reported by people after a auto injury, and it can be challenging for some doctors to find the root of the problem. Complicating the matter, very often you won't develop TMJ pain until many weeks or months after a crash.
Silver Chiropractic & Wellness has helped many individuals with jaw pain after an injury, and the scientific research explains what triggers these types of symptoms. During a auto collision, the tissues in your spine are often stretched or torn, causing ligament, muscle, or nerve injury. This can clearly cause pain in the neck and back, but since your nervous system is one functioning unit, inflammation 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 numbness in the arm or hand. Similarly, it can affect parts of your body above the injury, like your head and jaw. Headaches after auto collision are very common because of neck injury, and the jaw works the same way. Silver Chiropractic & Wellness sees this very frequently in our Jacksonville office.
Research indicates that the source of many jaw or TMJ symptoms starts in the cervical spine and that treatment of the underlying neck problem can fix the secondary headaches or jaw symptoms. The key to dealing with these symptoms is simple: Silver Chiropractic & Wellness will work to restore your spinal column back to health, decreasing the inflammation, treating the injured tissues, and lessening the irritation to the nerves in your spine.
Silver Chiropractic & Wellness finds that jaw and headache issues often resolve once we restore your spine to its healthy condition.
If you live in Jacksonville and you've been injured in a car crash, Silver Chiropractic & Wellness 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 (904) 634-0805 for an appointment or consultation.
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Dr. Rita Hanania, D.C.
Dr. Rita is a Jacksonville native and graduate from the University of North Florida with a bachelors degree in health science. Her passion for helping others led her to pursue her Doctorate from Palmer College of Chiropractic in Port Orange, Florida where she graduated as Salutatorian of her class.
Dr. Rita utilizes a whole person approach and tailors each patient's care to their specific needs. She specializes in a variety of techniques, but not limited to, instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization, diversified, gonstead, flexion and distraction, thompson, and activator. In addition, Dr. Rita is fluent in Arabic which allows her to provide comprehensive chiropractic care to the Arabic-speaking community.