Studies Show Chiropractic Beneficial at Preventing Sports Injuries

We deal with a lot of sports injuries in our Buffalo clinic, and Buffalo Family Chiropractic Wellness, P. C. is generally able to help these athletes. Stanford Childrens Hospital states that over 3.5 million children aged 14 and below are injured each year when playing sports. Add that to the close to 2 million adults hurt annually while participating in sports-related activities, as reported by statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and you can begin to see the importance of minimizing these sorts of widespread injuries. One way to possible realize that goal, as stated in a study published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, is to engage in routine chiropractic care.

In Australian Rules football, hamstring and other leg injuries are common, frequently sidelining the players and impacting their team's chance at securing a win. One specific study was administered using 59 semi-elite Australian Rules footballers to see how well chiropractic care could lessen these injuries and help keep them in the game.

Research Shows Chiropractic Adjustments Helps in Treating Sports Injuries

For this study specifically, all of the participants got medical treatment. In addition, half of them also engaged in chiropractic treatments at the rate of one treatment each week for the first 6 weeks, biweekly sessions for the following three months, and one session a month for the final 3 months of the study. The remaining participants were given no chiropractic intervention whatsoever and were used as the control group to assess the benefits of chiropractic adjustments.

After twenty-four matches, scientists reported a diminished amount of lower limb muscle strains in the group that had been given chiropractic care. Additionally, that very group also missed fewer matches correlated to non-contact knee injuries. This lead the researchers to conclude that chiropractic should be made an addition to sports training programs to dramatically decrease the amount of leg injuries.

Buffalo Family Chiropractic Wellness, P. C. Can Help Clients Find Relief From Sports Injuries & Help You Recover Quicker

If you or your child are active in sports and you would like to make sure more time is spent on the field versus on the sidelines, call our Buffalo office at (716) 854-1563 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.