Chiropractic Helps Prevent Lower Limb Injuries for Athletes

Chiropractic Helps Prevent Lower Limb Injuries for Athletes

When doing sports that require a lot of lower body motion, like football, soccer, and basketball, it's not uncommon to suffer some type of injury to your lower extremities. Between pulled hamstrings, sprained ankles, knee injuries, and more, many athletes have found themselves sidelined. Dr. Jerrad Swanson DC, FMT, DN1 has seen all of these problems in our Lincoln patients. Fortunately, chiropractic care can help prevent some of these injuries from occurring and research proves it.

Research Proves Chiropractic Helps With Sports Injuries & Recovery

Dr. Jerrad Swanson DC, FMT, DN1 keeps up-to-date with all of the latest scientific research, and in a paper published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, researchers from Macquarie University in Australia studied 59 semi-elite Australian Rules football players. Roughly half were placed in a control group and the others were put in a treatment group that received sports chiropractic care at regular intervals. During the first six weeks, this meant engaging in care once a week. The following three months consisted of an adjustment every two weeks before reducing those to one visit monthly for the final three months of the study.

The authors noted that there was a "significant" difference in the number of leg strains the players received in the treatment group when compared to the control. Furthermore, they observed that the subjects who received chiropractic also had fewer weeks of missed practice and games as a result of non-contact knee injuries. This led them to conclude that sports chiropractic treatment should be added to "the current best practice management."

Every major sports organization in the US and the US Olympic Team has chiropractors on staff for their athletes, because they know that chiropractic works. If you live near our practice in Lincoln and would like to see if Dr. Jerrad Swanson DC, FMT, DN1 can help you boost your performance or reduce sports injuries, give our office a call today at (402) 484-5177 for an appointment.

Dr. Jerrad Swanson DC, FMT, DN1 Can Help You Find Relief From Sports Injuries and Recover Faster

If you're struggling with severe pain, Dr. Jerrad Swanson DC, FMT, DN1 and our staff are here to help you heal. Give our Lincoln office a call today at (402) 484-5177 for an appointment today.

Reference

Hoskins W, Pollard H. 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 2010;11(64).