Chiropractic Treatment Helps Prevent Lower Limb Injuries for Athletes

When performing activities that need a lot of lower body motion, like football, soccer, and basketball, it's not uncommon to suffer some type of injury to your hips or legs. Between pulled hamstrings, sprained ankles, knee injuries, and more, many players have found themselves out of commission. Linton Spine & Joint Chiropractic Center has seen all of these concerns in our Mt Sterling patients. Fortunately, chiropractic care can help prevent some of these injuries from occurring and research proves it.

Research Supports Chiropractic Helps With Sports Injuries & Recovery

Linton Spine & Joint Chiropractic Center keeps up-to-date with all of the recent 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 one-half were placed in a control group and the others were put in a therapy group that received sports chiropractic adjustments at regular intervals. During the first six weeks, this meant engaging in care once a week. The following three months consisted of an adjustment every two weeks before decreasing those to one visit monthly for the final three months of the study.

The authors noted that there was a "significant" decrease in the number of leg strains the players received in the treatment group when compared to the control. Furthermore, they noticed that the subjects who received chiropractic adjustments also had fewer weeks of missed practice and games as a result of non-contact knee injuries. This led them to conclude that sports chiropractic treatment should be added to "the current best practice management."

Every major sports team in the United States 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 office in Mt Sterling and would like to see if Linton Spine & Joint Chiropractic Center can help you boost your performance or reduce sports injuries, give our office a call today at (859) 499-1009 for an appointment.

Linton Spine & Joint Chiropractic Center Can Help You Find Relief From Sports Injuries and Recover Faster

If you're struggling with severe pain, Linton Spine & Joint Chiropractic Center and our staff are here to help you feel better. Give our Mt Sterling office a call today at (859) 499-1009 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).