Chiropractic Care Helps Prevent Lower Limb Injuries for Athletes

Chiropractic Care Treats Leg Issues

When doing sports activities that demand a lot of lower body movement, like football, soccer, and basketball, it's not at all uncommon 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. Jonathan A. Spitz, DC has seen all of these issues in our Brooklyn Heights patients. The good news is, chiropractic adjustments can help prevent some of these injuries from occurring and research proves it.

Research Proves Chiropractic Helps With Sports Injuries & Recovery

Dr. Jonathan A. Spitz, DC keeps up-to-date with all of the recent 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 one-half were placed in a control group and the others were put in a therapy group that received sports chiropractic therapy 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.

Researchers 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 engaged in chiropractic treatment also had fewer 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 team in the United States and the US Olympic Team has chiropractors on staff for their players, because they know that chiropractic treatment are beneficial. If you live near our office in Brooklyn Heights and would like to see if Dr. Jonathan A. Spitz, DC can help you boost your performance or reduce sports injuries, give our office a call today at (718) 237-5117 for an appointment.

Dr. Jonathan A. Spitz, DC Can Help You Find Comfort From Sports Injuries and Recover Faster

If you're suffering with severe problems, Dr. Jonathan A. Spitz, DC and our staff are here to help you get relief. Give our Brooklyn Heights office a call today at (718) 237-5117 for an appointment.

Original Study

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).