Auto Accident Chiropractor Newport Beach

After a collision most people feel less than they expect on day one and considerably more on day two or three. That is normal and it is one of the reasons people put off getting examined — they take the absence of pain at the roadside as evidence that nothing happened.

Seeing an Auto Accident Chiropractor Newport Beach after a collision

We examine what the collision actually loaded. That means the neck, but also the mid-back, the shoulders and jaw, and the low back, since the forces travel through all of it. We ask about the collision itself — direction, speed, whether you saw it coming, headrest position, where your hands were — because those details change what we look for.

Seeing an Auto Accident Chiropractor Newport Beach residents can get to quickly matters more than which day of the week it is.

Red flags first

Before anything else we screen for the things that do not belong here — fracture, significant neurological signs, head injury. If any of those are in the picture you are going to an emergency department, not onto a table.

Why the delay matters

Two reasons, and only one of them is clinical. Tissue that is immobilised while it heals lays down disorganised scar, and a neck left to stiffen for six weeks is a harder problem than one moved appropriately from week one.

The second reason is practical. A long unexplained gap between the collision and the first examination is the thing insurers question hardest, and it is difficult to argue with afterwards.

Documentation

We document the examination properly: what you reported, what we found, what we treated, and how it changed. That record is what a claim runs on, and putting it together contemporaneously is far better than reconstructing it later. If your attorney needs something specific, tell us early and we will make sure it is captured.