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Once your neck pain is treated, your chiropractor may suggest Arctic Blast System Review exercise, diet, or lifestyle changes to improve your range of motion, strengthen muscles, and prevent painful relapse. Rather than just treating its symptoms, chiropractic offers treatment to fix the source of the pain. The focus is not just about on the neck. It also includes nutrition, stress management, and lifestyle goals.

The amount or degree of damage to the soft tissues - that is, the muscles, tendons, ligaments, and disks of the neck -- will be the deciding factors as to how much rest vs. activity should be initially performed. If there are no fractures, dislocations or other injuries resulting in an unstable cervical spine (neck), studies have shown rest and a soft collar is actually harmful when compared to early return to activity and exercises.

Chiropractic treatment, which essentially exercises the joints of the neck, has been shown to speed recovery when performed sooner rather than later after a whiplash injury. A handy way to classify the injury includes four categories:Those suffering with category 1 or 2 injuries should minimize rest, collar use, proceed with life's activities and not be afraid to do desired activities. More aggressive exercise and, utilizing chiropractic adjustments as soon as possible is very effective in the first two categories of injury.

Category 4 (fractures and dislocations) injuries require the use of a rigid collar usually for 4-6 weeks as rest/protection is imperative. Category 3 demands careful monitoring by your chiropractor as neurological problems like arm pain and numbness, muscle strength weakness, must be watched during the healing process. The use of ice is helpful with all four categories of injury and exercise training is important and can be started sooner in the first two categories of injury.