Top 3 Most Common Types of Car Accidents & Injuries They Cause

For too long, our society has thought that dealing with spasms of pain after being involved in an accident is natural—that it will eventually wear off.

Studies are increasingly demonstrating that this simply is not the case. Internal injuries caused by auto-accidents can have dire consequences, and people should seek treatments immediately afterwards.

Here are the 4 most common ways you can be involved in a car crash, and the injuries you may incur as a result.

Tailgate Crash

What Is It?

This is the most common type of car accident. Tailgating is when one car is following another too closely at high speeds.

When the one in front stops abruptly or slows down, the driver in the back is sometimes not able to react and stop quickly enough. It ends up rear ending the car in front.

Injuries?

This can be a dangerous if the driver in the back was not wearing a seatbelt. But even with the seatbelt on, the neck undergoes severe stress because of the inertia, which can cause whiplash to develop.

Compression of the sciatic nerve as a result of subluxations can also cause a patient to develop sciatica.

Spinning Out

What Is It?

Losing control of the car is an unsurprising phenomenon during rough weather conditions. Snow and rain is a threat to road safety. Let’s not even get started on the danger of black ice.

The severity of this kind of auto incident varies on what happens after you lose control. Do you hit another motorist? Or a stationary object? Maybe you tried to drive off the road and into a ditch so that you don’t injure anyone.

Injuries?

As mentioned above, the result depends on how you finally came to a stop. Crashing into another vehicle or object may result in serious injuries, or just a mere case of whiplash.

If you came to a stop without hitting anything, you wouldn’t need much medical care—unless you drove into a rough patch on the side; the terrain can cause injuries to the neck, such as cervical spine displacement.

Low Speed Accidents

What Is It?

You may never get involved in a serious auto-accident, but would almost inevitably be involved in a small one.

These small fender benders and clippings seem to do nothing more than just dent or scratch the car. Occasionally, hitting something while parking is normal and people often think nothing of them.

Injuries?

Just because the accident was small and the visual damage was excusable doesn’t mean that there is no internal damage.

If your neck violently jerked because of the accident, it can cause spinal subluxations to develop. If you feel spasms of pain and a tingling sensation in your neck, spine, and other vital joints, you should immediately visit a chiropractor to eliminate these symptoms of whiplash.

The Cascade Spine & Injury Center specializes in treating accident victims. The chiropractic clinic in Northeast Portland combines therapeutic massage and rehab therapy with chiropractic therapy to thoroughly rid the body of all sources of pain.

Contact the chiropractic clinic by dialing (503) 766-4881 to learn more about how they can help you.