Delaware Back Pain & Sports Rehabilitation Centers

  • Call Call
  • Contact Contact
  • Our Locations Our Locations
  • Testimonials
  • News & Announcements News & Announcements
  • YouTube

  • COVID-19
  • Telemedicine
  • Pay Bill
  • Patient Survey
  • Request an Appointment

  • Home
  • About Us
    • Legal Concierge
    • Careers
  • Providers
    • Medical
      • Barry L. Bakst DO
      • Stephen Beneck MD
      • Arnold Glassman DO
      • Anne C. Mack MD
      • Jeffrey S. Meyers MD
      • Rachael Smith DO
      • Craig Sternberg MD
      • Kartik Swaminathan MD
      • Pramod Yadhati MD
      • Irene Fisher PsyD
    • Chiropractic
      • Brian Baar D.C.
      • Kristi Dillon D.C.
      • Mark Farthing D.C.
      • Marjorie Mackenzie D.C.
      • Adam Maday D.C.
      • Hetal Patel D.C.
      • Michael Sharkey, D.C.
      • Riley Tuininga, D.C.
  • Specialties
    • Chiropractic Care
    • EMG/NCS
    • Rehabilitation Therapy
    • Sports Medicine
    • Pain Management Counseling
    • Accident & Injury
    • Workers’ Compensation
    • DOT - CDL Medical Exams
    • Wellness
    • Closed Head Injuries
  • Treatments & Procedures
    • Advanced Non-Surgical Treatments
      • Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy
      • Prolotherapy
      • Laser Therapy
      • Graston Technique
      • Anti-Gravity Treadmill
      • Myofascial Release
      • 3D Active Traction
      • Ultrasound-Guided Injections
    • Interventional Procedures
      • Interventional Pain Management
  • Patient Forms
  • Testimonials
  • Our Blog
    • Call Call
    • Contact Contact
    • Our Locations Our Locations
    • Testimonials
    • News & Announcements News & Announcements
    • YouTube
    • Patient Survey

What Back Injuries Can You Sustain from a Car Accident?

June 26, 2020

Back Injuries

More than 16,000 car accidents occur in the United States every single day. Due to those accidents, approximately 3 million drivers and passengers are injured every year.

Of the injuries you can sustain from a car accident, back injuries are one of the most common. The type of back injury you have depends on several factors, such as the force of impact, whether you were wearing a seatbelt, where you were sitting in the vehicle, and your overall health.

One factor surrounding injuries from a car accident is that you may not even know that you were injured until later. That is because the release of adrenaline following an incident may mask pain symptoms. That is why it is important to have yourself evaluated by a healthcare professional after being involved in a car accident, even if you feel fine.

Common Back Injuries from Car Accidents

The spine is divided into three regions: the cervical spine (neck), thoracic spine (middle), and lumbar spine (lower back). The back can be injured in a car accident particularly in the following ways:

Herniated Discs

Each set of two adjacent vertebrae in your spine are separated by a disc, which serves as a protective cushion and enables the back to twist and bend. A very common back injury in an accident is a herniated disc, where the jelly-like internal tissue of a disc herniates, or pushes out, of the harder exterior.

This tissue can then cause pressure and irritation to the surrounding spinal nerves and the spinal cord. Herniated discs are most common in the lumbar region, and this may lead to pain and numbness in the back and the lower extremities.

Strains and Sprains

A strain or sprain on the tendons or ligaments in your thoracic or lumbar region is a common injury after a car accident. This happens due to the overstretching caused by the forceful impact, as the pressure was too much for the fibrous tissues to absorb.

This overstretching may also cause them to tear. A stretched, partially torn, or fully torn tendon is a strain, whereas the same type of injury of a ligament is a sprain. A tendon connects a muscle to a bone, and a ligament connects bone to bone.

Fractures

A fracture in the spine is a break to any of the vertebral bones. Depending on the size and location of the break, these can be very dangerous. For instance, a compression fracture in the vertebra of the thoracic region of the spine due to a head-on collision can result in breathing difficulty due to its location near the lungs.

Back Injury Treatment in Delaware

If you need a comprehensive evaluation after being in a car accident, look no further than Delaware Back Pain & Sports Rehabilitation Centers. Our highly skilled and experienced doctors and rehabilitation specialists provide complete care for patients who are suffering from acute or chronic neck and back pain. We have a multidisciplinary team of doctors and rehabilitation specialists, so everything is right here in the same practice.

If you have any questions or would like to schedule a consultation, contact us today by calling us at the clinic nearest you or by filling out our appointment request form online now. We look forward to serving you.

Primary Sidebar

SEARCH

CATEGORIES

  • Accident & Injury (12)
  • Acupuncture (3)
  • Arthritis (1)
  • Back Pain (23)
  • Bulging Disc (2)
  • Chiropractic Adjustments (4)
  • Chiropractic Care (15)
  • Cold Laser Therapy (1)
  • Concussions (5)
  • EMG (1)
  • facet joint injection (2)
  • Fibromyalgia (1)
  • General (1)
  • Iliotibial Band Syndrome (1)
  • KT tape (2)
  • Laser Therapy (3)
  • Migraines (3)
  • Neck Pain (2)
  • Orthotics (1)
  • pain management (26)
  • Plantar Fasciitis (1)
  • PRP Therapy (11)
  • Rehabilitation Therapist (1)
  • Sciatica (2)
June 2020
M T W T F S S
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930  
« May   Jul »

TAGS

Acupuncture arthritis back injuries back pain back pain Delaware Back Pain Relief Back Pain Specialists near me back pain treatment in Delaware back pain treatment near me back problems Car accident Chiropractic Chiropractic Adjustment chiropractic therapy Chiropractic treatment Chiropractor Chiropractor in Delaware chiropractor near me Chiropractors near me Chronic back pain Chronic Pain concussion treatment near me Delaware Back Pain Delaware Back Pain & Sports Rehabilitation Center Delaware Back Pain & Sports Rehabilitation Centers Interventional Pain Management KT tape Laser Therapy lower back pain lower back pain treatment near me neck pain pain management Pain Management Delaware pain management doctors pain management experts near me Pain Management near me pain management specialist in Deleware pain management specialist near me pain specialist platelet-rich plasma PRP injections PRP Therapy prp therapy near me PRP treatment Trigger-Point Injections

Footer

Patient Education

Our patient education library features more than 200 award-winning articles with images, videos, and tons of helpful information.

LEARN MORE

Foulk Road
2006 Foulk Road, Suite B
Wilmington, DE 19810
Phone: (302) 529-8783
Fax: (302) 529-7470

Middletown
124 Sleepy Hollow Drive, Suite 204
Middletown, DE 19709
Phone: (302) 376-8080
Fax: (302) 378-1684

Riverside
700 Lea Blvd., Suite 102
Wilmington, DE 19802
Phone: (302) 764-2615
Fax: (302) 762-4076

Smyrna
29 N. East Street
Smyrna, DE 19977
Phone: (302) 389-2225
Fax: (302) 389-1003

Omega
87 Omega Drive, Building B
Newark, DE 19713
Phone: (302) 733-0980
Fax: (302) 733-7495

Dover
1006 College Road, Suite 201
Dover, DE 19904
Phone: (302) 730-8848
Fax: (302) 730-8846

Glasgow
2600 Glasgow Avenue, Suite 210
Newark, DE 19702
Phone: (302) 832-8894
Fax: (302) 832-8897

Milford Office (Air Park Plaza)
915 North DuPont Blvd, Suite 104
Milford, DE 19963
Phone: (302) 491-4487
Fax: (302) 491-4635

REQUEST AN APPOINTMENT

EMPLOYEE LOGIN

iHealthspot Medical Website Design and Medical Marketing by iHealthSpot.com

Home | HIPAA Privacy Policy | Accessibility Statement | Sitemap
Copyright © Delaware Back Pain and Sports Rehabilitation Centers. All Rights Reserved.

Staffed by certified physiatrists, chiropractors, psychologists, and therapeutic rehabilitation specialists, we provide pain relief for many types of bone, joint, nerve conditions. Our interventional pain management specialists (PM&R) treat closed head injuries, stroke, concussion, whiplash, dizziness, headaches, sciatica, disc problems, back & neck pain, joint stiffness, sleep apnea, muscle spasm, fibromyalgia, arthritis, neuritis, bursitis, and more.  We also treat job related injuries and injury from auto accident, sports or a fall at home.  As experts in Pain Medicine, our doctors provide surgical and non-surgical solutions including trigger point injections, epidural injections, nerve block, spinal cord stimulation, intrathecal spinal pump implant, PRP therapy, Graston® technique, Prolotherapy and more.  Serving Wilmington, Newark, Middletown, Smyrna, and Dover, Delaware.