Massage Therapy Can Provide Fast Pain Relief For Your Auto Accident Injury!!

Your Auto Accident Injury

When you have an auto accident injury you probably can't believe how much pain or discomfort you are actually in. Its normal to experience the following:

1. You can't sleep normally - you wake from pain, or toss and turn all night

2. You find you are irritable at work, home, and/or with your family

3. Driving is painful

4. Sitting and/or standing is painful

5. You are unable to get your normal work load done

6. You may have daily/weekly headaches now

Let's take a look at what you can do to decrease your pain, and what to expect from your treatment you do decide that therapeutic massage is the right therapy for you.

How Long Will I Be in Pain?

If you have never had an auto accident injury, I am sure you are currently a bit shocked by how much everything actually hurts, and how difficult it is to do normal daily activities. When you have an auto accident injury, your body is tossed around the car like a rag doll.

Your seat belt keeps you from serious damage, but your soft tissues, ligaments, tendons, fascia, and muscles are stretched, strained and sprained during this trauma. Oddly these soft tissue injuries normally will take longer to heal than broken bones.

1. Minor Car Accident:

   Your car is slightly damaged or in some cases shows no noticeable damage, but you have pain that may arrive up to 10 days after the accident.

   Expect up to 3 months to heal.

2. Medium Accident:

   This is an accident where there is significant damage to your car, sometimes even totaled. You may have been taken to the emergency room, and your pain may be immediate or up to 10 days after the accident.

   Expect 3 to 6 months to heal.

3. Serious Accident:

   In this type of accident your car is heavily damaged, often totaled, and you are always injured, you may have lost consciousness, or suffered a concussion.

   Expect 6 months to a year to heal.

Massage Therapy for Auto Accident Injuries

Have you noticed how you automatically reach your own hands up to those sore shoulders, or aching back and just give yourself a little massage to try and make the pain go away?

Massage feels good. It feels good because massage therapy is working out the spasms and inflammation which are at the root of your pain.

Picture a tube of toothpaste, where you push the paste up from the bottom. Your muscles are a little like the tube, your massage therapist is gently and effectively pushing the inflammation out of the muscles, back up to where your body can dispose of it, leaving you with less pain.

1. Massage Therapy: No medications, no gizmos.

2. Hands on treatment, directly on your injured muscles

3. Massage decreases scar tissue from injuries

4. Muscles in spasm are weaker and more painful, massage significantly reduces these muscle spasms.

Twenty Years of Providing Auto Injury Pain Relief

Valeo Massage Therapy was started after my own serious car accident 20 years ago, and my brother's serious car accident that came two years later.

Throughout that time we have focused on working with patients who have experienced auto accident injuries.