Studies Show Chiropractic Adjustments Effective at Preventing Sports Injuries

We come across a good deal of sports injuries in our Anchorage office, and Mulholland Chiropractic Center, LLC is often able to assist these athletes. Stanford Childrens Hospital states that over 3.5 million children aged 14 and below are hurt each year when playing sports. Add that to the nearly 2 million adults injured each year while engaged in sports-related activities, according to statistics collected by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and you can begin to see the importance of preventing these sorts of widespread injuries. One way to possible achieve 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 commonplace, frequently sidelining the players and impacting their team's likelihood of securing a win. One particular study was administered using 59 semi-elite Australian Rules footballers to see if chiropractic care could lessen these injuries and help keep them in the game.

Research Proves Chiropractic Care Helps in Treating Sports Injuries

For this study particularly, all of the participants was given medical treatment. Furthermore, half of them also received chiropractic treatments at the rate of one treatment each week for the first six weeks, biweekly treatments for the following three months, and one session per month for the remaining 3 months of the study. The other half had no chiropractic intervention at all and acted as the control group to assess the benefits of chiropractic.

Following twenty-four matches, specialists noted a diminished amount of lower limb muscle strains in the group that had been given chiropractic care. Moreover, that same group also missed fewer matches connected to non-contact knee injuries. This lead the researchers to come to the conclusion that chiropractic ought to be added to sports training programs to dramatically reduce the quantity of leg injuries.

Mulholland Chiropractic Center, LLC Can Help Clients Find Relief From Sports Injuries & Help You Heal Quicker

If you or your child plays sports and you would like to make sure more time is dedicated on the field versus on the sidelines, call our Anchorage office at (907) 770-5700 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.