6 Things You Can Do To Help Win Your Personal Injury Lawsuit - Part 4: Chiropractors

           This entry will be focused on the involvement of chiropractors in your medical treatment and how it relates to your personal injury case. It is very common for people who suffer injuries to their neck or back to seek treatment from a chiropractor after an incident. After all, chiropractors work on the neck and back and are often times more affordable than going to a hospital, M.D. or orthopedic physician. It is very important to understand the role chiropractic treatment plays in building a personal injury case and establishing injuries and damages.

            While chiropractic medicine has certainly made some incredible advances in the last several decades, it can be viewed skeptically by the judges, juries, and insurance companies. Remember, these are ultimately the ones who will need to be convinced in order to maximize the value of your case. Injured people will oftentimes focus on what seems to be the cheapest, quickest fix for their injuries, or rely on advice from friends or family and go visit a chiropractor. This often times will cause a problem later on in the case when trying to prove the extent of injuries and pain and suffering, as well as connecting the injuries to the incident.

            This is not to say chiropractic medicine is without its merit, nor is it to say that one should not visit a chiropractor to treat injuries involved in a personal injury case. Chiropractors can very often be extremely helpful in providing relief for injuries and any negative impacts on one’s personal injury case can be mitigated simply by obtaining an order for chiropractic treatment from your primary care physician, an orthopedic physician, or another medical doctor and periodically following up with this doctor throughout your chiropractic treatment.

            The final take home lesson is simply this: for purposes of improving your odds on winning your personal injury case, if you are going to see a chiropractor to treat your injuries, couple your chiropractor visits with routine follow up visits to your primary care doctor or orthopedic surgeon. Remember, your personal injury case begins immediately after the incident.

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