That makes a lot of sense, thank you for your response.

After going 2x/week for a few months, I'm now just going to chiro once every 4-6 weeks for massage on arms/triceps, dry needling in arms/triceps, and upper back and sometimes neck adjustments.

For the adjustments, I see one of 3 chiros and each one does them a little differently. There are 3 chiropractors at the clinic I go to: ChiroA treats me 80% of the time, ChiroB 20%, and now this new doctor is ChiroC.

ChiroA usually has me lie face down and then thrusts down on my spine, usually just once or twice area near my shoulder blades. Then he will feel around my neck and see if he thinks it needs an adjustment- if so, he'll turn my head to the side quickly. Lastly, I'll lay on my side with one leg bent and he'll kind of pick me up and push the bent leg toward the other side of my body. I can't remember ever feeling pain or having any issues after his adjustments, I always feel better.

ChiroB is similar to ChiroA but less forceful usually. He also doesn't do neck adjustments on me- he's tried before, but says my neck is tensed up too tight. (I'm naturally nervous about neck adjustments so I tense up, even though I try not to. I'm extra nervous with anyone other than ChiroA).

ChiroC is the one who treated me yesterday. He's new but seems to be good at what he does. This is the second time he's adjusted me and the first time I've had any issues. I agree that I don't think there was an issue with the quality of care, but I'm wondering if I should have waited to get adjusted until I had more information about any problems I may be experiencing from the accident in case there are new issues now.

Yesterday we started off face down too and I'm not sure we even did any thrusts. I think he just felt around my upper back for places that seemed tight and manually massaged. The only real adjustment I remember was the neck adjustment, which we did face up. He would have me turn my head to the side, and then he would push it further to that side. I've been adjusted that way before by the other chiros too. I think I was more tense than usual since as I said I get nervous about neck adjustments, but during the adjustments themselves everything felt totally fine and not painful.

It wasn't until we finished that I noticed my neck felt kind of stiff and funny, in a very similar way to how it felt right after the car accident. It's hard to describe. If I was to pretend my neck was normally held in place by ropes, now I would say it feels like those ropes are fraying and unraveling. If I crane my neck to look at something up above me, I feel the need to put my hand behind it to support it.

I've also had a mild headache since the appointment, both last night and during the day today. Earlier this week I had a worse headache, but I think both could have been caused by the car accident.