# Chiari malformation & car accident **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [March 15, 2013, 11:51pm UTC](https://forum.chiarisupport.org/t/chiari-malformation-car-accident/3192 "2013-03-15T23:51:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LD042702](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f475e1/32.png) [@LD042702](https://forum.chiarisupport.org/u/LD042702)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 11:51pm UTC](https://forum.chiarisupport.org/t/chiari-malformation-car-accident/3192/1 "2013-03-15T23:51:15Z")
Has anyone developed a chiari malformation (or was born with) and symptoms occurred after a car accident? Is that possible? ---
**Author:** ![sunshine99](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.chiarisupport.org/sunshine99/32/1509_2.png) [@sunshine99](https://forum.chiarisupport.org/u/sunshine99)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2013, 1:32am UTC](https://forum.chiarisupport.org/t/chiari-malformation-car-accident/3192/2 "2013-03-16T01:32:12Z")
Yes! Chiari is mostly genetic, but there are those rare few of us that it occurred after an accident. I have a CT scan in 1997 to prove that my Chiari did not exist then. My symptoms, and discovery occurred after a cliff diving accident. Since the accident my symptoms have been insane, with never so much as a blurp prior! ---
**Author:** ![Lyn727](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.chiarisupport.org/lyn727/32/1883_2.png) [@Lyn727](https://forum.chiarisupport.org/u/Lyn727)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2013, 3:44am UTC](https://forum.chiarisupport.org/t/chiari-malformation-car-accident/3192/3 "2013-03-16T03:44:42Z")
Yes. I found out I have Chiari Malformation after I became symptomatic as a result of a whiplash injury from a car accident last August. I had never had any symptoms prior to that. My symptoms showed up within 2 weeks after the car accident and continued to worsen. I had a cine MRI which showed blockage in the flow of CSF and had decompression surgery on January 25. My severe symptoms have resolved since the surgery. There is an article about a study that was done showing that it is possible to develop symptoms after head or neck trauma that I think I found on [conquerchiari.org](http://conquerchiari.org). It is very interesting. ---
**Author:** ![SparkyID7](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.chiarisupport.org/sparkyid7/32/1910_2.png) [@SparkyID7](https://forum.chiarisupport.org/u/SparkyID7)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2013, 9:12am UTC](https://forum.chiarisupport.org/t/chiari-malformation-car-accident/3192/4 "2013-03-16T09:12:37Z")
I became disabled in 2003 after waking up from a surgery (gastric bypass) with back pain,neck pain,head aches, and numbness and tingling in my legs,arms and feet. Later that year I was stopped in a yield lane and someone hit me from behind and threw me across 3 lanes of traffic and I ended up with pretty bad whiplash. I was sent to a Chiopractor 3 times a week for 3 months and he put me on all kinds of pulling machines and traction and would adjust my neck twice a week. He never did anything other than xrays on me so he never saw the Chiari. My pain did get worse after that and I was told it was all in my head....I know better! I wasnt diagnosed until 2010 with Chiari but since then I have been told by a few Neurologists and read a few articles that said Chiropractors and manipulations can be very bad on someone with Chiari. Sorry this was so long, hope it helped in some small way. ---
**Author:** ![ACBear](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.chiarisupport.org/acbear/32/1905_2.png) [@ACBear](https://forum.chiarisupport.org/u/ACBear)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2013, 1:09pm UTC](https://forum.chiarisupport.org/t/chiari-malformation-car-accident/3192/5 "2013-03-16T13:09:18Z")
Yes my symptoms started after slipping on the ice two years ago and have worsened with annual hits and a car accident since (Contemplating locking myself in a padded room from february to march from now on!). I am unsure if this has always been there but I certainly didn't have these life altering symptoms before and I was quite the tomboy as a child.