CHIROPRACTIC CARE FOR SPORTS INJURIES

If you have ever participated in any sporting activity, then you know that injuries are part of the game. When you have any type of injury all you care about is getting back into the game as quickly as possible. From week-end athletes to professional sports stars, you want to recover as fast as you can. The question is: Which type of doctor is the best doctor to see for the treatment of a sports injury.

Chiropractors can treat every type of musculo-skeletal injury, including sports related injuries. Your family chiropractors, Drs. Jeffery Roistacher have extensive training to diagnose and treat sports injuries. After a thorough examination, which may include x-rays to rule out a fracture, your family chiropractors will outline a treatment program. This treatment will include chiropractic adjustments, physical therapy modalities, perhaps therapeutic massage, or nutritional supplements to promote faster healing.

While you family chiropractor can treat most types of sports injuries, your chiropractor's main emphasis will be preventing these injuries in the first place. Many types of sports injuries such as:

Muscles pulls
Tendonitis
Back and neck strains
Joint pains
Foot pains

can be prevented through chiropractic care.

How can your chiropractor prevent sports injuries you may ask?

Many sports injuries, especially chronic pains or over-use injuries are the result of abnormal physical stresses on the tissues. Through regular chiropractic adjustments, your chiropractor will keep your joints in alignment and keep injurious stresses from developing. When your body is in proper alignment it has much more resistance to the stresses place on it by vigorous activity.

For example, most muscle pulls are a result of dehydration of the muscle tissue, causing the muscle to lose elasticity; or a joint subluxation causing an abnormal force vector, which can place a strain on the muscle's attachments or angle of pull. Through proper hydration and alignment of the body's joints you chiropractor can prevent many muscle injuries and keep you in the game.

Next time you or a family member visits the chiropractor, ask him about other ways he can help to prevent sports injuries from happening to you. It is usually much better to prevent injuries than to be forced out of activity to allow an injury to heal.