Chiropractic Treatment Helps Prevent Lower Limb Injuries for Athletes

When playing sports that require a lot of lower body motion, like football, soccer, and basketball, it's not uncommon to suffer some type of injury to your lower extremities. Between pulled hamstrings, sprained ankles, knee injuries, and more, many people have found themselves out of commission. The Culminating Experience Chiropractic Clinic has seen all of these problems in our Amite City patients. Thankfully, chiropractic adjustments can help prevent some of these injuries from happening and research proves it.

Research Proves Chiropractic Helps With Sports Injuries & Recovery

The Culminating Experience Chiropractic Clinic keeps current with all of the latest scientific research, and in a study published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, researchers from Macquarie University in Australia studied 59 semi-elite Australian Rules footballers. Roughly half were placed in a control group and the others were put in a treatment group that received sports chiropractic therapy at regular intervals. During the first six weeks, this meant getting care once every week. The following three months consisted of an adjustment every two weeks before reducing those to one visit monthly for the final three months of the study.

Researchers noted that there was a "significant" difference in the number of leg strains the players received in the treatment group when compared to the control. In addition, they observed that the subjects who engaged in chiropractic care also had less weeks of missed practice and games as a result of non-contact knee injuries. This led them to determine that sports chiropractic treatment should be added to "the current best practice management."

Every major sports organization in the US and the US Olympic Team has chiropractors on staff for their athletes, because they know that chiropractic care really works. If you live near our clinic in Amite City and would like to see if The Culminating Experience Chiropractic Clinic can help you boost your performance or reduce sports injuries, give our office a call today at (985) 247-2898 for an appointment.

The Culminating Experience Chiropractic Clinic Can Help Patients Find Comfort From Sports Injuries and Recover Faster

If you're suffering from severe pain, The Culminating Experience Chiropractic Clinic and our staff are here to help you recover. Give our Amite City office a call today at (985) 247-2898 for an appointment.

Reference

Hoskins W, Pollard H. 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 2010;11(64).