The sooner you go to your doctor, the better. For your health and your case.
Tell her everything (even the small stuff)
Insurance companies love it when you forget. “You didn’t say anything about your back for months,” they say, “so it must not be from the accident.” If you tell your doctor everything from the beginning, it’s harder for them to say that with a straight face.
Mental symptoms too
Depression, fatigue, memory loss, inability to focus. These and other mental symptoms can be signs of a physical injury, and it’s important to tell your doctor about them. She can’t fix what she doesn’t know about.
And older injuries
Your doctor needs to know if you have a condition that the accident might have made worse. If you have back pain now and you had it a year ago, tell your doctor—even if the pain from a year ago went away six months ago. Injuries can weaken your body and make it easier to injure again.
Nothing but the truth
Be honest with your doctor. The law lets people bring claims for older injuries if an accident made them worse. We can still make a case if you have older injuries. It can be a harder case to make, but nowhere near as hard as if you lie.
Tell the whole truth. Be complete, but don’t exaggerate.
Ask your doctor
If you’re wondering about chiropractic care, ask your doctor. Medical doctors are trained to identify all kinds of conditions and the right treatments.
Lots of things can cause pain, but chiropractic might not be the best treatment for all of them. If your doctor thinks it might help, she should be happy to give you a referral.
Your health and your case
We think health is more important than a case. So you have to make the decisions you think are best for your health. (If you put your case over your health, we are not the right lawyers for you.)
Just understand that some health decisions make your case harder to prove than others. Insurance companies and juries have more doubts about chiropractic, acupuncture and other alternative medicine, than they do about medical doctors.