Chiropractic Therapy Helps Prevent Lower Limb Injuries for Athletes

When playing sports that require a lot of lower body movement, like football, soccer, and basketball, it's not uncommon to sustain some type of injury to your lower extremities. Between pulled hamstrings, sprained ankles, knee injuries, and more, many athletes have found themselves sidelined. Buffalo Family Chiropractic Wellness, P. C. has seen all of these concerns in our Buffalo patients. The good news is, chiropractic can help prevent some of these injuries from developing and research proves it.

Research Shows Chiropractic Helps With Sports Injuries & Recovery

Buffalo Family Chiropractic Wellness, P. C. keeps current with all of the latest scientific research, and in a report published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, researchers from Macquarie University in Australia studied 59 semi-elite Australian Rules football players. Roughly one-half were placed in a control group and the other half were put in a treatment group that received sports chiropractic therapy at regular intervals. During the first six weeks, this meant engaging in care once every week. The following three months consisted of an adjustment every two weeks before reducing those to one visit monthly for the final three months of the study.

The authors 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 received 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 players, because they know that chiropractic therapy are beneficial. If you live near our clinic in Buffalo and would like to see if Buffalo Family Chiropractic Wellness, P. C. can help you boost your performance or reduce sports injuries, give our office a call today at (716) 854-1563 for an appointment.

Buffalo Family Chiropractic Wellness, P. C. Can Help People Find Comfort From Sports Injuries and Recover Quicker

If you're suffering from severe issues, Buffalo Family Chiropractic Wellness, P. C. and our staff are here to help you heal. Give our Buffalo office a call today at (716) 854-1563 for an appointment.

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).