Arm Numbness & Tingling After A Car Accident – Can Chiropractic Help?

A car accident can cause hidden injuries that can result in several symptoms:

• Neck Pain
• Back Pain
• Headaches
• Arm Numbness & Tingling 
• Dizziness

In this article, we will discuss numbness and tingling.  Numbness and tingling is also known as paresthesia.  Paresthesia also includes symptoms such as burning, pain, and/or pricking.

A car accident causes abnormal forces to the neck.  These abnormal forces cause motion of the neck and its structures beyond its normal range of motion, resulting in injury.  The injuries usually occur to the disc and the facet joints which can also cause irritation to the nerves exiting the neck.

The brachial plexus is the collection of nerves exiting the neck that controls signals from the spine to the shoulder, arm, and hand.  The brachial plexus can be irritated by a cervical disc herniation, disc bulge, or become entrapped by the muscle spasm of various neck musculatures.

Chiropractic treatments work to improve the alignment and biomechanical motion of the joints of the spine.  The improved positioning and motion helps to reduce muscle spasm, provide benefit to herniated and bulging discs, and injured facet joints.  The discs, facet joints, and muscles are the 3 most common causes of back and neck pain.  If a disc becomes herniated it can either pinch the nerve or not pinch the nerve.  However, if the disc is just bulging it can still cause inflammation which irritates the nerves causing arm numbness & tingling after a car accident.  The manual therapy provided by spinal manipulation will help the disc and facet joints.  By helping these joints the muscle spasm will improve and reduce your neck pain, back pain, and arm numbness & tingling.

The chiropractic adjustments and treatments are extremely important for obtaining arm numbness and tingling relief.  Contact my office today at 651-779-5998 to begin feeling relief from your numbness and tingling.  I help patients in Saint Paul, MN, Roseville, MN, Arden Hills, MN, Shoreview, and Falcon Heights, MN.