Chiropractic Care Helps Prevent Lower Limb Injuries for Athletes

Chiropractic Therapy Helps Relieve Leg Pain

When performing activities that demand a lot of lower body movement, 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 people 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 happening and research proves it.

Research Proves Chiropractic Helps With Sports Injuries & Recovery

Dr. Jerrad Swanson, DC, FMT, DN1 keeps current with all of the recent scientific research, and in a report published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, researchers from Macquarie University in Australia studied 59 semi-elite Australian Rules football players. Roughly one-half were placed in a control group and the others were put in a therapy group that received sports chiropractic adjustments at regular intervals. During the first six weeks, this meant getting care once a week. The following three months consisted of an adjustment every two weeks before decreasing 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 lower limb strains the players received in the treatment group when compared to the control. In addition, they noticed that the subjects who received chiropractic adjustments 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 intervention should be added to "the current best practice management."

Every major sports team in the US and the US Olympic Team has chiropractors on staff for their players, because they know that chiropractic adjustments works. If you live near our office 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 Patients Find Comfort From Sports Injuries and Recover Faster

If you're struggling with severe issues, 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.

Study Information

Hoskins W, Pollard H. The effect of a sports chiropractic manual therapy intervention on the prevention of back problems, hamstring and lower limb injuries in semi-elite Australian rules footballers: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2010;11(64).