Car Seatbelt Injury

What is Car Seatbelt Injury?

Another common personal injury from a car accident is a seatbelt injury. This isn’t surprising when you consider what happens in a car accident. Whether a car has rear-ended you or rammed into the side of your car, you will be jerked forward or sideways. This force impacts your body, even with a seatbelt.

What Causes Car Seatbelt Injury?

Obviously wearing a seatbelt is law and rightly so. There have been a number of studies into the safety of passengers and the tests showed that if you ware a seatbelt you are less likely to be injured as seriously than if you were not wearing one. All the same you can still be damaged by a seatbelt and in some case quite seriously.

Although lifesaving, the seatbelt causes misaligned ribs and vertebrae which in turn pinch and pull the nerves which are connected to these affected areas. The result is pain. Why go untreated after an automobile accident? Pain does not have to become a way of life after an accident. If you’re involved in an accident, whether it occurs on the job or on the road, contact our office for a complete post accident examination. It could save you from having to say, “….it’s never been the same after the accident.”