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Sports Injury / Sports Injuries

The best athletes in the world know that chiropractic care offers a balanced, natural approach to the prevention, treatment and the healing of a sports injury. Professional athletes are utilizing chiropractic care more and more because they realize that it helps them to maximize their athletic performance and prevent injuries.

Articles continue to appear in major newspapers and magazines with athletes such as Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, former boxing champ Evander Holyfield, and football greats Emmit Smith, Jerry Rice and Joe Montana proclaiming the huge advantages that chiropractic care has given them in their careers. More and more professional and college teams are utilizing a chiropractor for that same reason.

If you can remember that the whole premise of chiropractic is to restore spinal health so that the body has the best opportunity to maximize proper function, it is not hard to understand why the best athletes in the world enjoy what chiropractic has to offer.

Whether you are a weekend athlete or a professional, there are a couple things that all athletes have in common. They want to have the best possible performance in their chosen sport, and they both can get injured. No matter what the sport...golf, tennis, football, baseball, basketball, soccer, surfing, volleyball, kayaking, paddle boarding, biking, water polo, track and field, swimming, hockey, badminton, skate boarding, snow boarding, skiing, running, motocross, martial arts, gymnastics, cheerleading or parkour...injuries happen, pure and simple. If a person participates enough in any physical activity, eventually that person will get hurt to some degree. While sports injuries cannot be totally avoided, they can be minimized. The way in which one treats their sports injury determines how fast they recover and how quickly they can get back to the activity they enjoy.

Athletes may ask themselves why they get injured? They stretch out, and feel like they are in pretty good shape. So, why? In most cases, we play too hard, too long, or too fast. In fact, overuse syndromes or playing full speed before a proper warm-up are the major causes of sports injuries.

If an athlete gets hurt, what can be done to get him back on the field? Rest is usually a good thing, but by itself, can take a very long time. By using the chiropractic adjustment to restore proper mobility and position of bones in the spine and extremities and by using physical therapy to help the supportive tissues (muscles, tendons, ligaments), your chiropractor can help the injured areas return to normal function. Combined with some rest to help the healing process, athletes will find their way back on the court or field much sooner with the help of their chiropractor. Afterward, better strategies for exercise and stretching will be discussed with the athlete to help him stay on the straight and narrow path to better enjoyment of his chosen sport. Chiropractic care can also enhance an athletes strength, power, speed and flexibility whether they are injured or not. This results in better overall performance.

Your chiropractor at West Coast Chiropractic Carlsbad has extensive training and knowledge regarding sports injury, rehabilitation and most importantly prevention. Our chiropractors have successfully treated high school and college athletes from around Carlsbad, Oceanside and Vista as well as some of the top professional athletes in the world including former NFL running back Roger Craig. Whether you are a weekend warrior or a top level athlete, give our office a call to see how a chiropractor can help you!

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