Chiropractic Sports Medicine
Chiropractors, with their specialized training in the musculoskeletal system, and understanding of how the body’s structure relates to optimal function, make them the ideal fit for sports medicine solutions.
Whether you’re an elite athlete or rehabilitating from an overstretching injury, a sports chiropractor can help. Conditions that can benefit from chiropractic sports medicine include:
- Overuse injuries: Such as foot, knee and hip injuries in runners.
- Shoulder and neck injuries: Often experienced by tennis players and baseball players.
- Pain or trauma due to injuries: That often arise in contact sport situations.
Injury Recovery, Performance Improvement, and Injury Prevention
A chiropractor specializing in sports medicine can assist in the rehabilitation of musculoskeletal injuries, improving performance, and designing injury prevention programs. This integrative approach draws on extensive knowledge of sports-related injuries to provide a more natural treatment protocol that avoids the use of drugs and surgery where possible.
If you play sports regularly or professionally, you stand to benefit from sports medicine administered by an experienced chiropractor. They will help you manage your physical condition and make adjustments if you have any pain or discomfort, which means that you’ll be able to stick with your training schedule.
Sports Chiropractic Services
We can help you improve your balance, strength, mobility, flexibility, power, and endurance so that you can perform at your best. Specific interventions include:
- Spinal manipulation and spinal adjustment
- Traction therapy to relieve pressure in the discs in your back
- Muscle and fascia work
- Extensive, personalized therapeutic exercise programs
- Core strengthening, stretching, and strength training
- Advanced soft tissue techniques