Chiropractic Care Helps Prevent Lower Limb Injuries for Athletes

When playing sports activities that require a lot of lower body motion, like football, soccer, and basketball, it's common to sustain some type of injury to your hips or legs. Between pulled hamstrings, sprained ankles, knee injuries, and more, many players have found themselves out of commission. Dr. Six has seen all of these concerns in our Great Falls patients. The good news is, chiropractic care can help prevent some of these injuries from happening and research proves it.

Research Proves Chiropractic Helps With Sports Injuries & Recovery

Dr. Six 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 one-half were placed in a control group and the other half were put in a therapy group that received sports chiropractic care 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 leg 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 determine that sports chiropractic treatment 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 therapy are beneficial. If you live near our practice in Great Falls and would like to see if Dr. Six can help you boost your performance or reduce sports injuries, give our office a call today at (406) 452-6929 for an appointment.

Dr. Six Can Help Patients Find Relief From Sports Injuries and Recover Quicker

If you're struggling with severe problems, Dr. Six and our staff are here to help you get relief. Give our Great Falls office a call today at (406) 452-6929 for an appointment.

Reference

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