AUTO ACCIDENT INJURY TREATMENT

Your auto insurance company should cover the cost of your treatment after a car accident as long as you have an examination within 2 weeks of your accident even if you think that you are not hurt. If you aren’t seen for an exam within 14 days, you will waive your insurance benefits. 

Florida law states that you must seek attention within this timespan. Many Florida drivers are unaware of this law that can take away your ability to have your medical care covered by your auto insurance. 

Even if the accident was your fault, your treatment will be covered by your auto insurance. Florida is considered a “no fault state” so no matter who was at fault, your own personal auto insurance will cover the cost of your treatment and there will be no out of pocket expenses as long as you are a Florida resident.

It is urgent that you seek care within 2 weeks of your accident! This goes for any of the passengers in your car as well.

You are covered if you are an insured resident of Florida and own a motor vehicle, regardless if the car accident was your fault or another driver’s fault. When you buy a car you are required to purchase PIP. You are covered by PIP if you are the named insured. You, the insured, are covered by PIP while driving your vehicle or when a passenger in another’s vehicle. You’re also covered also while outside a motor vehicle if struck and injured by a motor vehicle.

Resident relatives who live with you, the insured, may be covered by your PIP benefits while they are driving your car, as passengers in your or another’s car, and while pedestrians if struck and injured by a motor vehicle. Others who are injured while driving your insured motor vehicle or who are injured while a passenger in your insured motor vehicle or who are injured as a pedestrian when struck by your insured motor vehicle may be covered by your PIP.

If you or your insured relatives living with you are injured while outside Florida, and are in your insured motor vehicle, you and your insured relatives are covered under PIP as long as the injury occurs within the United States, its territories or possessions, or in Canada.

Most car insurance companies will cover chiropractic treatment as long as you are seen for an exam within 14 days of your accident. We accept most no-fault Florida auto insurance carriers including:

• Geico
• Allstate
• Farmers
• Liberty Mutual
• Progressive
• AAA
• State Farm
• USAA
  
  

You will need to read up on PIP, which is the law that allows insured Florida drivers the right to chiropractic treatment covered by their car insurance when care is administered within 14 days of the accident.

You can be a driver, a passenger, or a pedestrian and still be covered in most cases. Usually there is no out of cost expenses when seeking and receiving care. We have helped many people get back to their health and live pain free after being involved in a car accident with injury and we’ll be happy to help you too!

We serve the following communities for all of their auto related injuries:

• Port Orange
• South Daytona
• Daytona Beach
• Daytona Beach Shores
• Deland
• Deltona
• Debary
• Holly Hill
• Ormond Beach
• Bunnell
• Palm Coast
• New Smyrna Beach
• Orange City
• Ponce Inlet
• Edgewater
• Oak Hill

Under the Florida PIP statute, initial care and services provided within the first 14 days, after the accident, can be provided by, supervised, and ordered by a medical doctor, doctor of osteopathy, chiropractic physician, dentist, and emergency medical personnel.

Massage therapists and acupuncturists cannot bill PIP for medical services rendered. Furthermore, massage therapy and acupuncture services are no longer covered even when a medical doctor is overseeing such services.

Contacting us and deciding to work with our chiropractor, Dr. Seidenberg, after you are in a car accident is a crucial decision to your health and your financial future.

Chiropractic care after an accident can cost thousands of dollars and if you do it right, your insurance will be covering the bill. If you wait too long you will be covering the bill or living in pain. You should always seek the care of a chiropractor after a car accident.

There are many injuries that are associated with car accidents. Most of the pain associated with these car crash injuries can be treated with chiropractic adjustments and other chiropractic treatment modalities. To avoid ongoing pain related to injuries that might not be readily noticed you should seek an auto accident initial chiropractic exam as soon as possible.

Chiropractic treatment is non-invasive. Therefore, the body’s response under the care of a chiropractor is far more predictable than its reactions to surgical procedures or drug treatments. News media coverage and widespread advertising campaigns do much to propagate the long lists of drug side effects and their frequent casualties as well as lawsuits for prescription drugs and medical implants. You will never see this with the techniques of a chiropractor. There simply is a lack of any data concluding that chiropractic is in any way harmful or dangerous.

“What about when chiropractors crack your bones?” Well, it’s not actually your bones making the noise, and even this procedure is exceedingly safe and efficient. Every day in America, nearly one million chiropractic adjustments are given. Complications are exceedingly rare, as is evidenced by the negligible malpractice insurance rates paid by most chiropractic physicians. Insurance companies deem chiropractors many times safer than medical physicians prescribing pharmaceuticals. Numbers do not lie.

As far back as 1979, these facts were well known, and a great safety summary statement was published by the government of New Zealand which established a commission to study the efficacy and safety of chiropractic. They found:

“The conspicuous lack of evidence that chiropractors cause harm or allow harm to occur through neglect of medical referral can be taken to mean only one thing: that chiropractors have on the whole an impressive safety record.”

Adjusting a joint accomplishes several things. Remember that our body is a neuromusculoskeletal marvel in that the nerves control the muscles which then move the bones. A chiropractic adjustment affects the nerves, muscles, and joints in a very unique way. Here is a very simplified explanation:

• A chiropractic adjustment stimulates sensory nerve receptors in the nervous system to block pain and to normalize transmission of sensory (in) and motor (out) nerve signals.
• An adjustment stretches the surrounding muscles to relieve spasm and to restore proper motion, contraction, and joint stability.
• An adjustment briefly and gently separates the joint, which expands it and circulates joint fluid to promote and restore the normal range of motion.
• An adjustment promotes faster healing by increasing lymph and blood flow to the area. Required nutrients are brought in, and wastes are transported out to restore the body’s natural ability to properly heal.

Muscle and nerve cells die without proper stimulation. The chiropractic adjustment is the most unique and beneficial cellular stimulation known to man!

Sound scientific principles define chiropractic, and the nervous system’s relationship to the spine is the very focus of chiropractic. Of all nine bodily systems, the nervous system reigns supreme, regulating all other systems and their intricate processes. The nervous system’s role as the primary control center of the body is, therefore, an undisputed scientific fact. The spinal column of vertebrae protects the delicate spinal cord and allows for freedom of movement. When these vertebrae become misaligned due to repetitive injury or trauma, inflammation of surrounding tissue causes compromise of the spinal nerves exiting the spinal cord through small holes between vertebrae. This can result in range of motion limitations, causing one to experience pain and other symptoms of dysfunction. This can lead to chronic disability and a decreased quality of life.

Chiropractic has been shown to have significant and lasting health benefits. Through the reduction of these misalignments, the doctor of chiropractic seeks to restore the natural healing potential of the human body. The body responds naturally by relieving symptoms and restoring health. There is simply nothing scientific about unknown interactions from the drug combinations most patients are currently taking. The health paradigm is quickly shifting towards chiropractic, and more patients are realizing that health comes naturally from the inside out – not the outside in by means of pharmaceutical concoctions targeting symptoms of pain.

Many of our patients who have been involved in a car accident seek legal counsel from a personal injury attorney. Although we don’t directly offer legal advice to our patients, we work with many of the attorneys in the Port Orange and Daytona Beach area to help our patients get the best legal counsel for their case.

If you’ve recently been in an accident, we can refer you to an attorney in our area.

If you’re already working with an attorney, we’ll be happy to work with the firm of your choice. 

When you first contact us to schedule an appointment to come in to our Port Orange chiropractic office you will be greeted by our compassionate and friendly staff.

Dr. Seidenberg will then take care to make sure she knows every detail about the auto accident and document it perfectly.  You will need to communicate the exact details of the accident in order for her to know how to treat your special auto accident injury case.

A thorough examination of your physical and neurological condition will take place to know what needs to be done to get you feeling better.  You will be so excited to know that Dr. Seidenberg only cares about bringing you back to health and making sure that you live the rest of your life pain-free. We have an excellent network of facilities if you are in need of any internal imaging such as x-rays or an MRI.  These images will be used to find any underlying injuries that cannot normally be perceived.  We want to make sure that we know about any and all damage that may have been caused by your auto accident.

Dr. Seidenberg will then craft a specialized chiropractic treatment plan that will bring you back to health and deal with any of the pain associated with your specific car crash injuries.  You will need to come in over a period of weeks for regular chiropractic treatment in order to remedy your auto accident injuries.

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