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Alternatives to Opioids After Back Pain from a Car Accident

Alternatives to Opioids After Back Pain from a Car Accident
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Following a car accident, a victim may experience significant back pain that leads to long-term pain and suffering. Back pain from a car accident can occur from direct blunt-force trauma and whiplash caused by a car accident.

Healthcare professionals may prescribe opioids to handle back pain. These are medications that can block pain messages and relieve back pain. However, they are highly addictive and can lead to symptoms like nausea, breathing problems, and loss of consciousness. For this reason, some choose alternatives to opioids.

Those who experience back pain after a car accident can turn to other medical treatments to handle it than opioids, including nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, physical therapy, massages, and acupuncture. A car accident lawyer can help you pursue compensation for car accident damages to pay for medical treatment to heal back pain.

How Can a Car Accident Cause Back Pain?

Accidentes de Auto are traumatic incidents that can cause injuries affecting body parts. The victim can receive bodily harm from blunt-force trauma. They can receive impact directly from another vehicle, collide with a heavy object inside or outside the car, or shake so violently that a car accident injury occurs.

These motor vehicle accidents commonly cause back pain, as car accident victims must endure intense pain every time they use their back. The sudden force of a car accident can affect the back, causing damage to the muscles and tissues in the back.

Living with back pain after a car accident can prove difficult, as car accident victims can experience severe pain every time they stand up, stretch, or walk around. Car accident victims will require back pain treatment to help them live with and recover from their serious injury.

Why Should You Seek Alternatives to Opioids to Treat Car Accident Back Pain?

One medication a doctor may prescribe to handle the back pain following a car accident is opioids. These medications attach to proteins in the body and block pain messages sent from the spinal cord to the brain. They help to relieve pain by producing morphine-like effects.

Despite its effectiveness in helping relieve back pain, opioids are highly dangerous medications because of their addictive qualities. They can release endorphins in the brain and create a feeling of pleasure many people want to continue to experience.

Opioids can have adverse effects, such as drowsiness, nausea, infusion, and slowed breathing. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), opioid overdose led to 80,411 deaths in 2021, which accounted for 75.4% of drug overdose deaths that year. Car accident victims should seek alternatives to opioids to heal back pain to avoid possible deadly addiction.

Healing Back Pain With Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs

One medication that a car accident victim can use instead of opioids is nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). These over-the-counter pain relievers reduce pain and inflammation and include medication like Aspirin, Ibuprofen, and Naproxen sodium. 

NSAIDs work by blocking chemicals inside the body that can create inflammation, helping to reduce back pain after a car accident. A car accident victim can take these medications as liquids, gels, creams, suppositories, or tablets.

These nonsteroidal drugs can help reduce inflammation and back pain, decreasing stiffness from a car accident injury and easing fever symptoms. Car accident victims should not take NSAIDs for more than ten days unless their healthcare professional prescribes otherwise.

What Therapies Can Help With Back Pain After a Car Accident?

Alternatives to opioids can include non-medicinal treatment. Car accident victims can go to physical therapy to heal back pain caused by their traumatic accident. Physical therapy involves manual body manipulation that can decrease scar tissue, heal damaged tissue, and reduce inflammation. 

Chiropractic therapy can also help alleviate back pain in the aftermath of a car accident. A licensed chiropractor can use their hands and special tools to realign your spine and reduce back pain caused by a car accident.

There are certain everyday activities that someone with severe back pain after a car accident will not be able to do. Easing back into everyday life as they recover from back pain could require occupational therapy, which involves the development of everyday skills for those struggling after a traumatic incident.

Treating Back Pain With Therapeutic Massages

While physical and chiropractic therapy can work to treat back pain with joint manipulation, some car accident victims may want a more soothing experience. Car accident victims can receive therapeutic massages to treat lingering back pain affecting their lives.

An experienced massage therapist can use their skills with their hands to apply soothing relief to the back, relaxing painful muscles, tissues, joints, and tendons causing back pain. Car accident victims can relieve back pain with deep-tissue, neuromuscular, and reflexology massages.

Should You Hire a Lawyer for Back Pain from a Car Accident

In the aftermath of a car accident, a victim will have to deal with economic and non-economic car accident damages. These can include medical bills, lost wages, and pain and suffering. They could file a car accident claim to pursue compensation for damages from the at-fault party’s insurance company.

Hiring a car accident lawyer is their best chance for recovering fair compensation for damages. They can use their experience and expertise in filing car accident claim paperwork, collecting evidence, and negotiating settlements to help maximize a car accident victim’s chances of recovering fair compensatory damages.

Contact Cellino Legal for Help With Your Car Accident Claim

At Cellino Legal, our car accident lawyers have experience helping Nueva York car accident victims in Manhattan, Rochester, Queens, etc. They can use their expertise gained over decades of service to help you craft a personalized legal counsel plan.

Our car accident lawyers believe in representing the client’s interest and ensuring any settlement can fully compensate them for their economic and non-economic damages. They will constantly communicate to adjust the legal counsel plan based on how the back pain affects the victim and any other damages that crop up.

At Cellino Legal, we offer CONSULTA GRATUITAs to clients to show them how our car accident attorneys can help them recover compensation for damages. Contact Cellino Legal today for a free car accident case evaluation by calling us at (888) 888-8888 or leaving a message on our online contact page.

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