Are you and athlete or have been suffering from pain, discomfort, or lack of performance in your sport? Have you heard the names Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Aaron Rodgers, Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, and Kareem Abdul-Jubbar before? These are some of the elite athletes who attribute a large amount of their success to the chiropractic care they received throughout their careers.
Chiropractic care is everywhere within the sports industry because they understand and see the effects of chiropractic care on athlete’s and their performance. All NFL, MLB, and Olympic teams have chiropractors on staff. The widespread knowledge and belief in chiropractic care is now cascading into almost every minor league team and colleges across the nation. Not only can chiropractic aid in the success of world-class athletes, it can provide the same results for kids, high-school, collegiate, and weekend warrior athletes too! Chiropractic is vital for the athlete!
Athletes of all sports continually put their bodies through high amounts of physical stress, creating an abundance of microtrauma to their tissues. This trauma isn’t your typical daily trauma we are all accustomed too. Being an athlete requires running, jumping, impacts, quick and aggressive starts and stops, and higher demands on the muscles, tendons, ligaments, and nerves. These added stressors continually compound on the body and create a lot of physical stress within the body.
The effects of these demands may not show up as anything serious, but continue to build these traumas on top of each other without the proper recovery strategies, they quickly become a bigger problem. Symptoms like loss of mobility, chronic fatigue or soreness, and pain will start to step into the picture. It has also been shown that athletes are at the highest risk of injury when their body is fatigued.
Chiropractic care looks at the athlete as a whole. The list goes on. We recommend getting under care before an athlete’s dysfunction and pain become evident because it is always our goal to keep them on the field, court, mat, etc. throughout the entire season. No one wants to be sidelined and watching due to injury, and with chiropractic care, we work to keep the athlete in the game.
The truth is that many sports-related injuries begin due to misalignments or stickiness in our joints, primarily the spine. When this interference is removed, the body experiences an increase in blood flow, higher immune system function, proper motor pattern firing, and overall better health and performance. As a result, athletes receiving care have noticed increased flexibility, speed, agility, and power during sports participation. These types of results have been seen at chiropractic clinics all across the country. In fact, it has been shown that about 1/3 of athletes under chiropractic care showed an increase in athletic performance as well as decreased number of injuries during sports participation (Journal of Chiropractic Research and Investigation). Those are incredible results!
Athletes of all ranks shouldn’t wait to see a chiropractor until after an injury has occurred. While chiropractic has been proven to be an excellent source for injury rehabilitation and healing, it is an even better resource for preventing the damage from happening. Chiropractors view the body as a whole, taking into account all aspects of health. Knee pain in a runner oftentimes is not actually a knee issue but a foot or pelvic issue. Low back pain in a gymnast may actually be do to an immobile thoracic spine. When coming to Legacy Spine and Sport, you get the best athlete care in the area. Dr. Colby not only was an athlete, but his background had him working on athlete performance and rehabilitation with some of the best athletes in the world. He has not only been able to train high level collegiate athletes, but has also worked with professional golfers, tennis players, MLB, NFL, and Olympic athletes. If you are in the Reedsville, WI area, contact us now to get an individualized consultation and get you performing your best.