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Why Personal Injury Rehabilitation Matters

Injuries can limit your day-to-day life. It causes pain and restricts your movements. It also affects the quality of your interactions and your ability to perform your duties. Rehabilitation removes this limitation, allowing you to function normally. Other reasons are:

Delays can worsen injuries: Postponing treatment exposes your injuries to risky movements and activities that may lead to immobility and chronic pain.
Rehabilitation relieves pain: Rehabilitation helps reduce the pain of the injury, which hinders your body’s natural healing process, allowing it to recover naturally.
Treating unknown issues: Rehabilitation professionals can detect injuries that don’t show symptoms immediately and treat them before they cause pain or discomfort.

How Chiropractic and Rehab Care Support Recovery

Our noninvasive treatment methods aim to heal injuries and rehabilitate your body to restore its normal function. To achieve this, we incorporate one or several of the following treatment techniques into your care plan.

Chiropractic Adjustments

Our chiropractic care in Bay City provides gentle spine and joint adjustments to relieve pain, restore alignment, and begin the process of natural healing.

Soft Tissue Therapy

We use myofascial release, cupping, and various massage techniques to reduce inflammation and pain in the injured muscles and help them heal faster.

Sport Physiotherapy Specialist Showing How to Stretch a Rubber Band on Specific Muscle Groups or Joints to Young Male Athlete. Sportsman Recovering from Injury, Undergoing Rehabilitation.

Corrective Exercises

As part of your rehabilitation, we prescribe exercises that build muscle strength and improve mobility to prevent reinjury and facilitate a faster recovery.

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Rehabilitation Programs

For holistic and personalized treatment, we put together different methods that fit your rehabilitation needs so your body can recover at its own pace.

What to Expect During Your First Visit

After searching for “personal injury treatment near me” online and choosing our clinic, our friendly staff will obtain your medical history and assist you through these four steps.

Comprehensive evaluation and injury history: Our resident chiropractor will assess your posture, identify any existing injuries, and ask relevant questions to gather more information.
Functional movement and pain assessment: Following this, our chiropractor will ask you to perform several movements to assess your mobility and function.
Personalized care plan: After diagnosis, we will design a treatment plan tailored to your specific conditions and address any questions you may have.
Ongoing support: We will recommend specific exercises, offer guidance, and provide advice on how to support your recovery after the session.

Why Choose Renew Spine & Rehab in Bay City?

Our in-house chiropractor, Dr. JZ Benson, knows what it feels like to suffer from injury. That’s why he and his team provide compassionate personal injury treatment in Bay City that puts your comfort first. We believe healing from injuries is more effective when you’re at ease.

Experienced in treating injury cases

Dr. Benson and the team have treated Bay City patients with various injuries since the establishment of our clinic.

Patient-centered care

We customize treatment plans based on what you and your body need for holistic and natural healing.

Comprehensive treatment methods

We determine the pain's root cause and use the most effective approaches to treating your injuries.

Frequently Asked Questions

You should start as soon as possible. Receiving treatment and rehabilitation early helps you recover from your injuries more quickly because they are still fresh. If you put it off, you’ll expose your injuries to risks that can make it worse.

Definitely! Chiropractors train for years to practice spine and joint manipulation before they’re professionally licensed. They know how to treat you safely and effectively.

It depends on your injuries. If you want an accurate timeframe, consult with a chiropractor. Given your unique condition, they will know how many recovery sessions you take.

It depends on the severity of the injury. We understand that working and going about the normal course of your life is very important, but as a general rule, we recommend that you take it easy and don’t exert yourself too much while in treatment.

Most providers cover a wide range of personal injury conditions, but it’s best to coordinate with your insurance provider to find out if they cover the injuries you sustained.

Meet Your Chiropractor

JZ Benson, DC

Chiropractor

Dr. JZ Benson worked for a contractor in high school who specialized in remodeling homes and thought he’d follow that career path. At the age of 16, he fell 12 feet and landed on a 2×4, severely injuring his spine.

For six months, he went from doctor to doctor, wearing a corset-like back brace and being heavily medicated. He was told surgery was his only choice, but a friend helped him find another solution—chiropractic care.

This inspired him to become a chiropractor and help others experience healing like he had.

What Our Patients Say

Everyone is kind, knowledgeable, caring, and understanding. I am not an easy case. I have been in chiropractic care since I was 13. I was having headaches, and my mom took me to the dentist and eye doctor, tried everything, and we ended up with the chiropractor. Years later, I learned my hips were uneven, and the S curve in my spine was not there, not scoliosis, but not how it should be. I also have TMD, which is called TMJ. Dr. Benson is treating all this and my new arthritis problems that affected my entire left leg and took the strength from my thigh muscle. My body is writhing in pain. However, he and his team are working to calm the pain and heal my body- the best part is that my insurance covers it.

Cassondra B.

Dr. Benson is absolutely the best! I took my husband to the ER in severe pain in his lower back. He could not move. They pumped him full of pain medication and sent him on his way, saying they could not help him. I called Dr. Benson's office in the ER and explained the situation. I took my husband straight to his office from the ER; he could not walk, could not sit up, and was lying out in the back seat of my truck. Dr. Benson came to my truck and helped him get out of the truck and into one of the rooms. After working on him for about 45 minutes, he could walk out with the help of crutches, and the next day, he was walking without them! My husband was back at work 4 days later after figuring out he had a pinched nerve and two more visits. I would highly recommend Dr. Benson and his entire staff to anyone looking for a chiropractor who really cares about his patients.

Donna W.

I had a hip replacement last year. I have been limping lately and, quite frankly, feeling crooked and having back spasms. Dr Benson and staff worked wonders the first day with massage, electric stim, and spinal adjustment. The limp was less pronounced, and my back pain was significantly lessened when I left. I know this is a work in progress, but we are on the right path forward.

Sharon H.

Dr. Donald Thingpen

Chiropractor

Dr. Donald Thigpen is licensed Doctor of Chiropractic with 20+ years of experience. He specializes in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of conditions related to the spine, joints, and musculoskeletal system. Dr. Thigpen is also certified practitioner in dry needling through the American Academy of Manipulative Therapy, certified Decompression Therapy Practitioner through the Kennedy Decompression Institute, certified practitioner in Whiplash Injury Biomechanics & Traumatology through the Spine Research Institute of San Diego, certified practitioner in Webster Technique through the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association, and certified practitioner in manual therapy.

Dr. Thigpen received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Texas Chiropractic College and was valedictorian of his graduating class. While at Texas Chiropractic College, he received an extensive education in human anatomy, physiology, pathology, and other clinical and biological sciences. From 2001 to 2003, under the direction of Dr. Bill McGimsey, Ph.D., Dr. Thigpen was appointed to the position of gross anatomy lab instructor and performed dissections on over 150 human cadavers. From 2002 to 2003, under the direction of Dr. Hasnaa Shafik, M.D., Ph.D, Dr. Thigpen was appointed to the position of histopathology lab instructor where he assisted doctoral students in the microscopic identification of human tissues and diseases.

Dr. Thigpen's experience includes a chiropractic internship along with medical rotations in neurosurgery and rheumatology. His rotation in neurosurgery was conducted under the supervision of Dr. Edward Murphy, M.D., at St. Joseph's Hospital in Houston, Texas. During his rotation in neurosurgery, Dr. Thigpen assisted Dr. Murphy with neurological examinations, observed and assisted in surgery, and received extensive instruction on neurological conditions, brain MRIs, and spine MRIs. His rotation in rheumatology was conducted under the supervision of Dr. Martin Lidsky, M.D., at the Veteran's Affair's Medical Center in Houston, Texas. Under the instruction of Dr. Lidsky, Dr. Thigpen gained valuable knowledge and experience on the proper evaluation and diagnosis of many arthritic and rheumatic conditions.

Prior to attending Texas Chiropractic College in Houston, Texas, Dr. Thigpen completed his undergraduate studies at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. In May of 2000, he graduated cum laude and received a bachelor of science degree in biology. While at MSU, he was selected to participate in a senior honors thesis research project, which he completed under the direction of Dr. Ray Neyland, Ph.D.

From 2004 to 2008, in addition to a full time practice as a Doctor of Chiropractic, Dr. Thigpen was an instructor at the Louisiana Institute of Massage Therapy where he taught human anatomy, physiology, and pathology. Dr. Thigpen is also an Elsevier text book reviewer and has been recognized in three text books for his contributions. You can find him listed as a contributing editor and reviewer in Mosby's Pathology for Massage Therapists 2nd Edition, Massage Therapy Principles and Practice 3rd Edition, and Massage Therapy Principles and Practice 4th Edition.

Dr. Thigpen is a member of the Texas Chiropractic Association, American Chiropractic Association, and the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association.

Personal Injury Rehabilitation in Bay City

Why Personal Injury Rehabilitation Matters

Common Injuries Treated at Renew Spine & Rehab

Whiplash from car accidents

Neck and back injuries

Slips, trips, and falls

Shoulder and knee injuries

Sports-related injuries

Muscle strains and sprains

Repetitive motion injuries