When performing sports activities that require a lot of lower body motion, like football, soccer, and basketball, it's common to suffer some type of injury to your lower extremities. Between pulled hamstrings, sprained ankles, knee injuries, and more, many players have found themselves out of commission. Robert C Slater, DC has seen all of these problems in our Highland Park, Saint Paul, Minnesota patients. Fortunately, chiropractic care can help prevent some of these injuries from occurring and research proves it.
Research Proves Chiropractic Helps With Sports Injuries & Recovery
Robert C Slater, DC keeps current with all of the recent scientific research, and in a study 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 others were put in a therapy group that received sports chiropractic care 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.
The authors 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 noticed that the subjects who received chiropractic also had fewer weeks of missed practice and games as a result of non-contact knee injuries. This led them to determine that sports chiropractic treatment should be added to "the current best practice management."
Every major sports organization in the United States and the US Olympic Team has chiropractors on staff for their athletes, because they know that chiropractic really works. If you live near our office in Highland Park, Saint Paul, Minnesota and would like to see if Robert C Slater, DC can help you boost your performance or reduce sports injuries, give our office a call today at (651) 699-3366 for an appointment.
Robert C Slater, DC Can Help You Find Comfort From Sports Injuries and Recover Faster
If you're struggling with severe pain, Robert C Slater, DC and our staff are here to help you feel better. Give our Highland Park, Saint Paul, Minnesota office a call today at (651) 699-3366 for an appointment today.
Reference
Hoskins W, Pollard H. 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 2010;11(64).
