How Chiropractic Adjustments Can Prevent Sports Injuries
Jan 11, 2023
Chiropractic care offers so much more than relief from back pain and whiplash. The team at Chiropractic, Rehab, and Sports Injuries of Louisville can help athletes avoid injury and perform at their best.
Professional athletes like Tiger Woods, Venus Williams, and Michael Jordan have used chiropractic care throughout their careers to help their bodies perform at top levels. Chiropractic care focuses on addressing muscle imbalances and improving movement patterns, which only helps reduce your chance of injury.
Athletes benefit from regular visits to our office for chiropractic adjustments. Here’s how we can help prevent sports injuries and optimize your performance.
Chiropractic care is about treating the whole person. We recognize that the spine is the axis of the body. When it’s properly aligned, your body is able to move normally and function correctly.
An aligned spine means no pinched nerves. It also optimizes muscle movement, so you avoid unnecessary tension and pain.
Sports injuries often occur after trauma from a tackle or fall. Regular adjustments don’t mean you avoid these incidents, but can make your body better able to handle them.
Seeing our chiropractic team after you sustain an injury can hasten healing, so you can get back to play.
Runners, racquet sports players, and pitchers often experience injury related to repetitive movements. Performing the same muscle action over and over can cause muscle imbalances and undue wear-and-tear on soft tissue.
Regular chiropractic adjustments can keep your body in balance. Our team can also help you become aware of the implications of overusing a certain body part and how to provide balance and rest so that you don’t experience problems like tendonitis or compensatory pain.
We provide physical therapy and recommendations for cross training to prevent repetitive movement from causing serious problems.
Regular chiropractic adjustments help your spine function well. This means you’re better able to do the tasks associated with your sport, like pivoting on the soccer field or swinging a golf club.
When your spine is aligned, muscles and the central nervous system are free to support performance.
You may be able to get along with improper movement patterns for some time and even play at a high level. However, with time, faulty movements can lead to inflammation, tears, and strains.
Chiropractic adjustments put your body in balance, making it easier to move in the way you’re designed to move.
It’s common for active people and athletes to suffer from low back pain. If you don’t have a regular chiropractic appointment on the books, you might be tempted to wait it out or suck it up and play through pain.
When you’re scheduled to come regularly, however, we can address points of pain when they’re still in a mild stage. This helps you avoid the complications of severe back pain that can sideline you for days, weeks, or months.
Dr. Michael Young and the entire team at Chiropractic, Rehab and Sports Injuries of Louisville are ready to help active people in Louisville, Kentucky, stay healthy. Visit the office to start your regular chiropractic adjustments. Call today, or use the online tool to schedule your appointment.