Research Shows Chiropractic Care Effective at Preventing Sports Injuries

Chiropractic Care Effective at Preventing Sports Injuries in Brooklyn Heights

We encounter a many of sports injuries in our Brooklyn Heights clinic, and Dr. Jonathan A. Spitz, DC is usually able to assist these athletes. Stanford Childrens Hospital reports that over 3.5 million children of the ages 14 and below are injured each year while playing sports. Add that to the nearly 2 million adults injured each year while participating in sports-related activities, according to statistics collected by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and you can start to see the importance of preventing these sorts of widespread injuries. One approach to possible achieve that goal, according to a study released in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, is to receive regular chiropractic treatments.

In Australian Rules football, hamstring and other leg injuries are commonplace, frequently sidelining the players and impacting their team's odds of winning. One particular study was conducted using 59 semi-elite Australian Rules footballers to see whether chiropractic adjustments could cut down on these injuries and help keep them in the game.

Research Shows Chiropractic Treatment Helps in Treating Sports Injuries

For this study specifically, every one of the players got medical treatment. Additionally, half of them also engaged in chiropractic sessions at the rate of one treatment each week for the first six weeks, biweekly treatments for the next three months, and one treatment a month for the remaining three months of the study. The remaining group had no chiropractic intervention whatsoever and acted as the control group to assess the benefits of chiropractic adjustments.

Following twenty-four matches, scientists noticed a reduced amount of lower limb muscle strains in the group that had received chiropractic care. Moreover, that very group also missed fewer matches correlated to non-contact knee injuries. This lead the researchers to conclude that chiropractic should be added to sports training programs to effectively lessen the amount of leg injuries.

Dr. Jonathan A. Spitz, DC Can Help Patients Find Comfort From Sports Injuries & Help You Recover Quicker

If you or your child plays sports and you want to make sure greater time is dedicated on the field as opposed to on the bench, call our Brooklyn Heights office at (718) 237-5117 and make an appointment today. We will do our best to keep you in the game!

References

• Hoskins, W, & Pollard, H. (2010, April 8). The effect of a sports chiropractic manual therapy intervention on the prevention of back pain, hamstring and lower limb injuries in semi-elite Australian Rules footballers: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 11(64), doi:10.1186/1471-2474-11-64
• Misra, A. (2014, March 17). Common sports injuries: Incidence and average charges. Department of Health & Human Services.
• Stanford Children’s Hospital. (n.d.). Sports injury statistics.