Summer is Near…Treat Sports Injuries With Chiropractic Care!

Did you know more injuries relating to sports occur in the summer time than any other season? The weather is warming up and summer is near and that calls for more fun in the sun, and more outside activity. For sports injuries from golf or tennis elbow to back pain, strains and sprains, chiropractic care offers gentle, non-invasive treatment that can help affected muscles, joints, and ligaments fully heal without relying on medication. Read on to learn how chiropractic adjustments can help you find lasting pain relief from repetitive strain injuries, back pain and overuse injuries.  

Chiropractic Treatment for Sports Injuries

While you might think of sports injuries as occurring from extreme or active sports, even low risk sports like golf can cause injury. Common sports injuries that cause pain and inflammation include:

• Low back pain
• Tendonitis
• Carpal tunnel
• Shoulder pain
• Herniated disc
• Spinal misalignment

Poor sports form, underlying postural problems, muscle overuse, and injury can aggravate your condition. As a result, you can experience pain during everyday activities and may feel like you can no longer participate in the sport you enjoy. If you've been injured or feel pain from playing a game you love, you can heal through chiropractic adjustments. 

How Chiropractors Heal Sports Injuries

Our chiropractor, Dr. Jared Simon, will perform a comprehensive patient examination on all new patients, including those with sports injuries. We will also take a health history and perform a series of tests that reveal the extent of your injury. With this information, we will draw up a comprehensive treatment plan to alleviate inflammation and pain, realign ligaments and muscles, restore range of motion to affected body parts, and strengthen the muscles to prevent future injury. 

Unlike other treatment methods that focus only on the site of pain, such as your shoulder or elbow, chiropractic treatments focus on the whole area that is affected. Treatment of tennis elbow, for example, heals your elbow, wrist, and shoulder -- all connected parts that move together when you play tennis -- through a series of adjustments. Adjustments are gentle and non-invasive. They work to realign affected muscles and ligaments, release inflammation and muscle knots, and heal all evidence of injury. 

Have you ever gotten injured from participating in a sport you love? If so, how did you find pain relief? Did it improve your overall sports performance overtime?