Chiropractic Adjustments Helps Prevent Lower Limb Injuries for Athletes

Chiropractic Helps Leg Issues

When playing activities that require a lot of lower body movement, like football, soccer, and basketball, it's not uncommon to suffer some type of injury to your hips or legs. Between pulled hamstrings, sprained ankles, knee injuries, and more, many people have found themselves sidelined. Weary Chiropractic Clinic has seen all of these problems in our Prescott patients. Thankfully, chiropractic care can help prevent some of these injuries from occurring and research proves it.

Research Shows Chiropractic Helps With Sports Injuries & Recovery

Weary Chiropractic Clinic keeps current with all of the latest 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 half were placed in a control group and the other half were put in a therapy group that received sports chiropractic adjustments at regular intervals. During the first six weeks, this meant engaging in care once a 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 lower limb strains the players received in the treatment group when compared to the control. Furthermore, they observed that the subjects who received 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 adjustments are beneficial. If you live near our clinic in Prescott and would like to see if Weary Chiropractic Clinic can help you boost your performance or reduce sports injuries, give our office a call today at (928) 778-2227 for an appointment.

Weary Chiropractic Clinic Can Help Patients Find Comfort From Sports Injuries and Recover Quicker

If you're struggling with severe pain, Weary Chiropractic Clinic and our staff are here to help you get relief. Give our Prescott office a call today at (928) 778-2227 for an appointment.

Original Study

Hoskins W, Pollard H. The effect of a sports chiropractic manual therapy intervention on the prevention of back problems, hamstring and lower limb injuries in semi-elite Australian rules footballers: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2010;11(64).