Why Do I Need to Go to Therapy if My Injuries are Only Soft Tissue?

This is probably the No. 1 question that people ask us.

First of all, soft tissue injuries can be devastating. They can result in chronic pain which is unrelenting long term neck and back pain which never goes away. You do not want to have your soft tissue injuries morph into chronic pain. That is the chief reason why you need extensive therapy if you have neck or back pain after a car accident.

People have many excuses for not attending therapy or quitting prematurely. Some of these reasons are perfectly reasonable, such as:

(a) I can’t get time off work to attend therapy and the therapist I go to does not have evening or weekend appointments

(b) I don’t have the money to pay for treatments

If you are in this situation, let us know and we can:

(a) Refer you to a clinic that has evening and weekend appointments available

(b) Arrange for funding of your treatments

Other excuses for not following the planned treatment programme are not so legitimate such as:

(a) I haven’t got time or I have to wait too long in the waiting room

(b) I don’t feel much better after the treatment, or if I do feel better, it is short lived

We realize that your time is valuable. However, if you are genuinely injured, you will put in whatever time is necessary to deal with your injuries. If you are telling us that you haven’t got time for treatment, we will be thinking that you are not really injured or not injured as much as you say. As far as results, it is not a situation that a single treatment or series of treatments will cure you or take all of your pain away. It is a gradual process, bit by bit. You may even have more pain after a single treatment. However, if you stick with it for the entire treatment programme, you are much more likely to recover completely.

There is also a more practical reason to stay with your treatment programme until you are better. ICBC is looking for you to mess up so that they can argue that you are faking or exaggerating your claim.  When you don’t go for therapy or quit prematurely or miss multiple appointments, it plays right into ICBC’s hands.

If you don’t have a chiropractor, physiotherapist, massage therapist and kinesiologist, ask us and we will find you a clinic that is convenient and does good work. If funding is a problem, we will solve it. Your part is to show up for your appointments on time and stick with the treatment programme until you are completely better.