Research Shows Chiropractic Effective at Preventing Sports Injuries

We come across a several of sports injuries in our Amite City office, and The Culminating Experience Chiropractic Clinic is usually able to help these athletes. Stanford Childrens Hospital reports that more than 3.5 million children aged 14 and below are hurt each year when playing sports. Add that to the nearly 2 million adults injured each year while engaged in sports-related activities, according to statistics collected by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and you can begin to see the importance of preventing these types of common injuries. One approach to potentially achieve that goal, as reported by a study published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, is to engage in routine chiropractic treatments.

In Australian Rules football, hamstring and other leg injuries are commonplace, often sidelining the players and impacting their team's chance at securing a win. One specific study was administered using 59 semi-elite Australian Rules footballers to see whether chiropractic treatment could lessen these injuries and help keep them playing.

Research Supports Chiropractic Adjustments Helps in Treating Sports Injuries

For this study specifically, all of the participants received medical treatment. Furthermore, half of them also received chiropractic sessions at the rate of one treatment per week for the first six weeks, biweekly sessions for the next three months, and one treatment per month for the remaining 3 months of the study. The other half had no chiropractic intervention whatsoever and acted as the control group to determine the benefits of chiropractic care.

Following twenty-four matches, specialists noticed a lessened number of lower limb muscle strains in the group that had received chiropractic care. Furthermore, that very group also missed fewer matches correlated to non-contact knee injuries. This lead the researchers to come to the conclusion that chiropractic should be made an addition to sports training programs to dramatically lessen the number of leg injuries.

The Culminating Experience Chiropractic Clinic Can Help People Find Comfort From Sports Injuries & Help You Get Better Quicker

If you or your child plays sports and you would like to make sure more time is spent on the field as opposed to on the bench, call our Amite City office at (985) 247-2898 and make an appointment today. We will do our best to keep you in the game!

References

• Hoskins, W, & Pollard, H. (2010, April 8). The effect of a sports chiropractic manual therapy intervention on the prevention of back pain, hamstring and lower limb injuries in semi-elite Australian Rules footballers: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 11(64), doi:10.1186/1471-2474-11-64
• Misra, A. (2014, March 17). Common sports injuries: Incidence and average charges. Department of Health & Human Services.
• Stanford Children’s Hospital. (n.d.). Sports injury statistics.