Research Shows Chiropractic Beneficial at Preventing Sports Injuries

Chiropractic Care Beneficial at Preventing Sports Injuries in Prescott

We deal with a several of sports injuries in our Prescott clinic, and Weary Chiropractic Clinic is usually able to assist these athletes. Stanford Childrens Hospital states that over 3.5 million children of the ages 14 and below are injured each year while playing sports. Add that to the nearly 2 million adults injured every year while participating in sports-related activities, as reported by statistics collected by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and you can begin to see the necessity of preventing these sorts of widespread injuries. One way to possible achieve that goal, as stated in a study published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, is to engage in routine chiropractic care.

In Australian Rules football, hamstring and other leg traumas are common, often sidelining the players and affecting their team's odds of securing a win. One particular study was administered using 59 semi-elite Australian Rules footballers to see if chiropractic treatment could reduce these injuries and help keep them in the game.

Research Shows Chiropractic Treatment Helps in Treating Sports Injuries

For this study specifically, every one of the players got medical treatment. Additionally, half of them also engaged in chiropractic sessions at the rate of 1 treatment per week for the first 6 weeks, biweekly sessions for the next three months, and one treatment a month for the remaining three months of the study. The other half had no chiropractic intervention at all and acted as the control group to assess the benefits of chiropractic adjustments.

Following twenty-four matches, specialists noted a reduced number of lower limb muscle strains in the group that had received chiropractic care. Furthermore, that very group also missed fewer matches related to non-contact knee injuries. This lead the researchers to come to the conclusion that chiropractic should be added to sports training programs to effectively diminish the quantity of leg injuries.

Weary Chiropractic Clinic Can Help Patients Find Comfort From Sports Injuries & Help You Heal Quicker

If you or your child are active in sports and you want to ensure greater time is spent on the field as opposed to on the bench, call our Prescott office at (928) 778-2227 and schedule 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.