We encounter a good deal of sports injuries in our Nashville clinic, and Sweeney Chiropractic is generally able to assist these athletes. Stanford Childrens Hospital states that over 3.5 million children of the ages 14 and below are hurt each year when playing sports. Add that to the close to 2 million adults hurt annually while engaged in sports-related activities, according to statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and you can begin to see the necessity of preventing these types of common injuries. One approach to potentially achieve that goal, as reported by a study released in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, is to engage in regular chiropractic treatments.
In Australian Rules football, hamstring and other leg injuries are common, often sidelining the players and impacting their team's chance at winning. One specific study was administered using 59 semi-elite Australian Rules footballers to see if chiropractic therapy could diminish these injuries and help keep them in the game.
For this study particularly, all of the participants received medical treatment. Furthermore, half of them also received chiropractic treatments at the rate of one session per week for the first 6 weeks, biweekly treatments for the next three months, and one session per month for the remaining three months of the study. The remaining participants had no chiropractic intervention at all and were used as the control group to assess the benefits of chiropractic care.
Following twenty-four matches, researchers noted a diminished amount of lower limb muscle strains in the group that had been given chiropractic care. Moreover, that same group also missed fewer matches correlated to non-contact knee injuries. This lead the researchers to conclude that chiropractic should be made an addition to sports training programs to effectively decrease the amount of leg injuries.
If you or your child are active in sports and you want to ensure greater time is dedicated on the field versus on the bench, call our Nashville office at (615) 331-7040 and schedule an appointment today. We will do our best to keep you in the game!
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Dr. Jim Sweeney & Dr. Jon Sweeney, your Nashville Chiropractors and Palmer College of Chiropractic West graduates, provide quality chiropractic care to patients in Nashville, TN. If you suffer from back pain, neck pain, headache, sciatica or have been in an auto collision, Sweeney Chiropractic can get you back on the road to health.
