Headaches after a car accident are common and are often not due to direct head trauma.
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We all know how annoying headaches are and how damaging to your day they can be. Headaches after a car accident are common and are often not due to direct head trauma. Often these headaches are actually caused by complications with your spine; these are called Cervicogenic Headaches.
Cervicogenic Headaches:
Cervicogenic Headaches are headaches that are not related to head trauma. They are related to injuries or lesions affecting another part of your body, most often the neck or head. A lot of the time, a headache after a car accident is a Cervicogenic Headache rather than head trauma. To treat this requires a holistic approach, where the therapist doesn’t simply treat the part of the patient with the most obvious issue, but instead finds and treats the problem at its source.