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Chiropractors In San Diego Blow The Whistle On Big Insurance Companies |
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Written by Dr. Michael Pritsker, DC
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Monday, 21 June 2010 07:06 |
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Twenty six percent of all drivers were involved in a car accident over the last several years. When a car accident happens to you, you must be prepared for what's next. San Diego chiropractors and spinal decompression specialists are revealing the shocking findings that you must know. It is important to know what to do after a car accident.
by Dr.MichaelPritsker,DC
Twenty six percent of all drivers were involved in a car accident over the last several years. When a car accident happens to you, you must be prepared for what's next. San Diego chiropractors and spinal decompression specialists are revealing the shocking findings that you must know. It is important to know what to do after a car accident.
If you haven't noticed by now, money buys policy and makes the laws in this country. The more money big business throws at politicians, the more rules are shifted in their favor. Take New Jersey for example in the following. They actually have a policy called pay for play. It is actually accepted for contractors to be awarded large contracts based on the size of their political contributions to political campaigns.
Insurance companies have been playing a similar game of pay for play for a very long time. The big difference is when contractors in New Jersey are awarded jobs as political favors, it takes money out of the pocket of someone who really deserves it. When insurance companies play this game, the lives of car accident victims are ruined. Here are some shocking statistics. Nearly 43,000 people died in car accidents in 2002, reports the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. There are approximately 6.4 million car accidents each year. There are about 3 million car-related injuries a year and 2 million permanent injuries. About 26% of drivers have been involved in a car crash in the last five years.
Nearly all Americans will be involved in at least one motor vehicle accident at some time in their life. So what do insurance companies do with all these accidents and injuries they don't want to pay for due to finances? Besides political lobbying, they fund research and fight every single claim that comes their way
Here's what Dr. Arthur Croft, one of the world's leading experts on whiplash and car accident injuries says about the situation: "So it seems quite clear that the playing field is not level. It's the Fortune 500 against the doctors and their patients, and the score is about 3-1. This juggernaut of non-science has inculcated the legal world by spending literally billions of dollars fighting even relatively insignificant claims. They seem finally to have impressed attorneys that it simply is not worth their effort to pursue such claims. The insurance industry has funded their own research, couched beneath a veneer of science. They send the principles of this work as expert witnesses to refute injury in low-speed impact cases. The companies carefully forbid the publishing of any work that fails to serve their interest, thus denying any fair peer-review from within the scientific community."
Insurance companies use this information to deny claims and refuse paying for your treatment. The fact of the matter is that low-impact car accident injuries are largely misunderstood. Many times injuries and pain are not apparent at the time of the accident. Some injuries are even missed by emergency room technicians who are wonderful at spotting breaks and cuts, but don't understand this type of hidden injury that may take weeks, months or even years to show symptoms.
Another big insurance company myth is if you don't have damage to your car than you can't be injured. This is simply not true. The amount of damage to your car doesn't accurately reflect the amount of injury to the person inside the car. Studies show that injuries can occur at impact speeds of less than 5 miles per hour, when there is little or no damage to the car. When modern day race cars crash, they are specifically designed to easily break apart, and the driver usually walks away alive. This is because as the race car breaks apart, the energy is being absorbed by the flying parts and not by the driver.
The cars of today are built to absorb low speed impacts without significant damage to the bumper. This creates a problem. The problem is that instead of damaging your car, the energy of impact is transmitted to the person in the automobile. This is similar to the energy from one pool ball is transferred to another upon impact. This is simple physics which is completely ignored by profit minded insurance companies. This proves you can actually be injured worse when your car has no damage then when it flies into a million pieces.
Many people don't realize even though they walk away from a minor car accident without a scratch, there is a good chance they could develop a serious problem later in life. This will cause a lot of pain and suffering in the future. Whiplash is when your car gets struck and your body moves faster than your head can react. Your muscles, ligaments, discs, nerves and spinal joint get stretched out and are injured. The neck structures can actually tear. Many times these injuries are not felt for days. Other times your body reacts immediately and pain comes on right away. Muscles tighten up and go into spasm. This spasm acts as a protective layer so you don't move your neck too much and make the injury worse than it is. Spasm also removes the normal curve in your neck and can lead to permanent arthritic changes that create more pain.
Chiropractic care is extremely important for the care of whiplash injuries because it helps restore the spinal curves and normalize motion in the injured area. If these curves are not restored and proper motion is not brought back to the area, there is a chance of chronic neck and back pain.
In 1999, the Journal of Orthopedic Medicine published the results of a study designed to determine if chiropractic care helped chronic whiplash. 100 patients were divided into three groups and treated on average for four months. The authors of the study concluded, "The results from this study provide further evidence that Chiropractic is an effective treatment for chronic whiplash symptoms." Studies prove time and time again that chiropractic works for chronic whiplash Injuries!
The significant thing to keep in mind is there is a good quality chance you have been injured in a vehicle accident and should have a total chiropractic examination, even if there is no damage to your automobile and you don't have any abrupt pain or symptoms. If you don't, you could be setting yourself up for steady pain and suffering in the future. If you have been wounded in an vehicle accident in San Diego, call New Century Spine Centers to get your spine evaluated.
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