Chiropractic Treatment Helps Prevent Lower Limb Injuries for Athletes

When doing sports activities that require a lot of lower body movement, like football, soccer, and basketball, it's common to suffer some type of injury to your lower extremities. Between pulled hamstrings, sprained ankles, knee injuries, and more, many people have found themselves sidelined. Jefferson Spine & Injury Center has seen all of these problems in our Arlington patients. The good news is, chiropractic can help prevent some of these injuries from occurring and research proves it.

Research Proves Chiropractic Helps With Sports Injuries & Recovery

Jefferson Spine & Injury Center keeps current 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 footballers. Roughly half were placed in a control group and the other half were put in a therapy group that received sports chiropractic treatment at regular intervals. During the first six weeks, this meant receiving care once every 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" decrease 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 engaged in chiropractic therapy also had less weeks of missed practice and games as a result of non-contact knee injuries. This led them to conclude that sports chiropractic treatment should be added to "the current best practice management."

Every major sports organization in the US and the US Olympic Team has chiropractors on staff for their athletes, because they know that chiropractic therapy are beneficial. If you live near our practice in Arlington and would like to see if Jefferson Spine & Injury Center can help you boost your performance or reduce sports injuries, give our office a call today at (703) 933-9000 for an appointment.

Jefferson Spine & Injury Center Can Help You Find Comfort From Sports Injuries and Recover Quicker

If you're struggling with severe discomfort, Jefferson Spine & Injury Center and our staff are here to help you heal. Give our Arlington office a call today at (703) 933-9000 for an appointment.

Bibliographic Reference

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