Chiropractic Care for Personal Injury and Workers’ Compensation

Chiropractic Care for Personal Injury and Workers’ Compensation

Workers Comp Doctors Baltimore, MD

Have you been injured in a work accident? Or, perhaps you’ve had a personal injury due to someone else’s negligence. Do you think you might have a worker’s compensation or a personal injury case? What should you do?
You may be well-advised to seek chiropractic care for your injury.

What Is Personal Injury?

If you’ve suffered an accident-related injury, you could be entitled to compensation for lost wages, associated medical costs, household services, and other damages. Most often, personal injury cases involve one of these:

• Pedestrian accident
• Motor vehicle accident
• Product defect
• Slip and fall

Some typical personal injuries that respond to chiropractic care include:

• Whiplash and neck injury
• Low back injury or strain
• Shoulder, arm, hand or other extremity problems
• Knee injury
• Hip injury
• Leg and ankle injury
• Shoulder injury

What Is Workers’ Compensation?
Workers’ compensation is a form of insurance that pays money to workers who become injured or disabled in the course of their employment. It provides replacement of lost wages and medical benefits to employees injured on the job. In exchange, the employee receiving benefits must give up their right to sue their employer for the tort of negligence.

Commonly seen job injuries include:

• Low back strain
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Repetitive motion injuries
• Shoulder strain
• Slipping or tripping
• Falling object injuries
• Overexertion injuries
• Falling, including falling from heights

What to Do If You Have a Workers’ Compensation or Personal Injury Case

First and foremost: Seek medical attention.

Get medical attention immediately for a life-threatening injury. If your injury is pain, soreness, discomfort, or mobility restriction from a sprain, strain, repetitive motion, or overexertion, which are typically soft-tissue and  musculoskeletal injuries, make an appointment with a qualified and credentialed chiropractic doctor.

Chiropractic services and therapies can address and treat the symptoms and underlying causes of many injuries that involve the spine, the surrounding muscles, and the nerves that branch out from the spinal cord. Chiropractors use spinal adjustments to move the spine into alignment and relieve restrictions and pressure on the nerves.

Chiropractic care can help with both acute and chronic injuries. In addition to spinal adjustments, chiropractors can orchestrate a treatment plan that includes complementary therapies like hot or cold therapies, electrical stimulation, corrective and rehabilitative exercises, massage therapy, and more.

There are a couple of significant things you should do to support your injury claim:

1. Make a report. If you document the circumstances and what occurred in short order, it’s more likely that your claim for an injury will be honored. If the injury happened on the job, you should report the injury to your employer. If your injury is from traffic-related accident or slip and fall, you should report it to your local police department.
   
2. Get professional advice. If you have injuries that prevent you from working and are struggling to pay your medical and household bills, you may need to consult a personal injury attorney to get advice on ways to cover your lost wages and bills.

Even for work-related injuries, you can select your own medical provider among the workers comp doctors Baltimore, MD offers. Schedule an appointment as soon as possible with a chiropractor familiar with worker’s compensation and personal injuries.

Contact Mid Atlantic Spinal Rehab & Chiropractic for their insight into chiropractic care and workplace accident injuries.