Don’t assume minor vehicle damage means you avoided injury. Here is helpful information concerning if your thinking my car had only minor damage.
A vehicle’s appearance does not always reveal how the collision affected the people inside.
For example, a low-speed parking lot collision differs from a higher-speed intersection crash. Even so, the repair bill and the vehicle’s condition tell only part of the story.
We want to understand what happened to you.
Every Accident Has Its Own Story
Several factors can affect how your body responds to a collision:
- The direction of impact
- Your position in the vehicle
- Whether you looked straight ahead or turned your head
- The location of the impact
- Whether you expected the collision
- Your injury and health history
- Your age and physical condition
- The forces involved in the crash
As a result, two people can experience similar accidents yet develop very different symptoms.
Likewise, even two people in the same vehicle may experience different injuries.
We Consider Vehicle Damage—But We Don’t Stop There
First, we want to know how much damage your vehicle sustained.
Then, we may ask where the vehicles collided and how your body moved during the impact. We may also ask whether the airbags deployed. Together, these details help us understand how the collision affected you.
However, we don’t base our recommendations on vehicle damage alone.
Instead, we consider your history, symptoms, examination findings, appropriate imaging, and progress over time.
What About the Insurance Company?
Insurance companies may review vehicle damage and other details when evaluating an auto injury claim.
Therefore, accurate documentation can be helpful.
Report the accident accurately, save photographs and records when possible, and ask your healthcare provider to document your symptoms and concerns.
Meanwhile, a qualified personal injury attorney can answer questions about your legal rights, liability, or insurance claim.
Our role is different.
We evaluate you, document our clinical findings, and recommend care based on those findings—not simply on your vehicle’s appearance.
More Than 20 Years of Auto Injury Experience
For more than two decades, Chandler Chiropractic has cared for people after auto accidents and personal injuries.
We’ve treated patients after minor collisions as well as serious crashes. Through that experience, we’ve learned an important lesson:
Never evaluate the patient by looking only at the car.
Evaluate the person.
That’s where good auto injury care begins.
