Delay Onset Of Pain

A delay in the onset of pain is extremely familiar, and is very well documented in the scientific literature. In addition, due to joint injuries, auto accidents can cause post traumatic osteoarthritis. For those that have been in a traumatic accident, the arthritic process often develops much more quickly (at an earlier age) than in people who have not experienced auto accident trauma. Osteoarthritis usually cause pain on a daily basis and is progressive. Over time, it can ruin your posture, limiting your pain-free range of motion, and make it difficult to participate in many physical activities. Osteoarthritis involves the discs, joint space, and other tissues of your spine and leads to progressive symptoms including chronic stiffness, pain, inability to perform simple tasks comfortably, including walking, sitting, sleeping, and/or moving the joints in your arms and legs. Even simply looking up and down can be extremely painful, or even impossible. When you injure yourself, your body will compensate for the injured area by trying to protect the region. Thus putting pressure on other parts of your body to help stabilize your spine and keep you straight as much as possible. This pressure is the tightening of the muscles opposite of the injured area, which pulls the joints of the spine out of alignment and puts painful pressure on the nerves in your spine. If not treated correctly, this frequently causes a "snowball effect" that leads to progressive musculoskeletal imbalance as well as the associated arthritic complications.