Sports
Injuries and Athletes
Football, basketball, hockey, lacrosse are
some of the various sports that students in North Carolina play. Sports keeps
high school students healthy and active and serves as a more wholesome
alternative than playing video games. Students also learn how to be a team
player.
Nevertheless, pain and injuries come with
the fun and camaraderie of sports games. These problems can also affect your
child’s academics and future athletic performance. Thus, it is important to
have a chiropractor attend to their musculoskeletal needs. Professional
athletes such as Cristiano Ronaldo and
Michael Jordan have a chiropractor as part of their entourage. The
benefits that both professional and high school athletes can get from
chiropractic are the following:
Faster
recovery
Physical contact sports such as
basketball, hockey, karate, and football inevitably involve sports related injuries. Strains, bruises, and tears
along the ligament can take anywhere between weeks to a year for a full
recovery. During that period, your child would have no choice but to hold off
from any sports activities.
Various research has shown that
chiropractic care can speed up recovery time by as much as a third in some
types of pain and injuries. Chiropractic’s success lies in the fact that it
addresses the root cause of injury-related pain by making manual adjustments
on the spine. The spine is where all the nerves in the body are connected. Chiropractic adjustments ease the pressure on the spine,
which in turn relieves the nerves of the injured area. Reduced pain eventually
diminishes inflammation, and lets the body heal itself faster.
Recovery
without surgery
Another advantage of chiropractic is
that this treatment does not need surgery, needles, or drugs. Common types of
pain related to sports strain and bruising
would only require the wonderful hands of a chiropractor. However, some types
of injuries, such as fractures would need surgical intervention. In these
cases, the chiropractor would refer
you to a surgeon. They can still help your child recover faster and deal with
the pain after surgery.
A
holistic approach to injury mitigation
Although injuries can’t be avoided in the field,
chiropractic can reduce its impact on your child’s body. A chiropractor uses a
whole range of techniques such as spinal manipulation, adjustment of specific
joints and muscles, laser therapy, and acupuncture to mitigate the effect of
slips, falls, and sudden twists. When done routinely, preventive chiropractic care
would help your child’s body heal faster. Your child’s body can also respond
adequately to injurious forces that would otherwise have been severe without
chiropractic.
Enhances
performance
During games, the signals from your
child’s brain towards specific body parts travel through the spine. By keeping
your child’s spine well-aligned, chiropractic care ensures that your child
would be agile, alert, and responsive. Your child’s posture would improve because of a
well-aligned spine and good muscle tone. Improved reaction times, muscle tone,
and posture would translate to better sports performance. Flexibility would
also give them a better range of motion. Gymnasts and swimmers stand to benefit
the most from the increased flexibility chiropractic can provide.
Conclusion
In most sports situations, surgery
and drugs aren’t required. The strength of chiropractic lies in its ability to
let the body take over the recovery effort, leading to less pain and earlier
recovery. However, even if your child has to undergo
surgery or take medication, chiropractic can still help your child heal faster
so that they can go back to doing the things they love.
Feel free to contact our staff with
any questions at Tebby Chiropractic and Sports Medicine Clinic for the best chiropractic experience.
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