Why Chiropractic Care is Beneficial for Athletes with Sports Injuries
Chiropractic care is a health care profession that places its primary focus on the relationship between the body’s structure – primarily its skeletal structure – and the body’s overall functioning. This makes it an ideal form of health care for those who suffer from sports injuries, chronic muscle, and skeletal pains and so much more.
While many choose to go with more modern medicine, chiropractic care can aid in many different areas of a patient’s day-to-day life. While everyone can benefit from chiropractic care, those that generally turn to this sort of treatment tend to be athletes, pregnant women and those with skeletal and muscular issues that take a toll on an individual’s day-to-day life.
Defining Sports Injuries
Chiropractic care has been around for some time, and in America for well over 100 years. Because of the high-impact nature of most sports, many athletic trainers encourage regular chiropractic care not only to treat but help prevent a variety of different sports injuries.
These types of injuries can affect both the skeletal structure or soft tissues. In fact, many sports injuries tend to fall under the soft tissue category and tend to affect tendons, muscles, and ligaments, such as sprain, strains, and tears.
Preventative Benefits of Chiropractic Care for Sports Injuries
When it comes to preventing sports injuries, chiropractic care can be essential to an athlete’s healthcare routine. While specific treatments will benefit a given athlete more than it will another, there are a variety of different benefits of chiropractic care.
General Preventative Benefits of Chiropractic Care
While chiropractic care is an excellent way of preventing many sports injuries, the goal of successful treatment is to focus on treating the underlying problem, not merely masking a symptom. So, while the below benefits are great, the ultimate goal will be to find the root of the problem before creating a maintenance routine.
Some sports injury preventative benefits include:
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Reducing the chance of injuries
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Improving posture
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An increase in muscle strength
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Joint manipulation reduces/prevents joint pains and injuries
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Improving range of motion
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Improvement in endurance
Prevention vs Treatment
While we know that chiropractic care is a great way to avoid sports injuries, most individuals only resort to a chiropractor once they are already in pain. Essentially, a regular chiropractic maintenance routine is a great way to prevent the pain and injuries in the first place.
To see what kind of maintenance routine would fit your individual needs, call Skaggs Chiropractic, LLC office at our Joplin, Missouri office at (417) 624-4242.
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