Sometimes, the difference between winning and losing in competitive sports can be as slight as a microsecond. Professional, collegiate, high school, young athletes, and even weekend warriors need every bit of strength, speed, flexibility, and mental acuity to stay at the top of their game.
Why Choose Chiropractic Care for Sports Injuries?
When injuries happen, many athletes choose natural chiropractic treatments rather than more invasive options for pain relief. Prescription drugs dull reaction times and carry the risk of addiction, while surgery might leave an athlete benched for months. On the other hand, a certified chiropractic sports physician can relieve pain without drugs or surgery—all while keeping the body balanced, flexible, and at optimal performance.
Common injuries in many sports can knock the spine out of alignment, stressing its pain-sensitive joints, muscles, nerves, discs, and ligaments.
Chiropractic care provides proven pain relief for many common sports injuries, from strains and sprains to tennis elbow to groin pain in soccer players to recurrent shoulder instability in hockey players. It also helps with:
- Headaches from head and neck injuries
- Back and shoulder pain
- Ankle and knee injuries
But it’s not just injured athletes who visit chiropractors. An estimated 90% of all world-class athletes routinely use chiropractic care to prevent injuries and boost their performance. All professional football teams employ on-staff chiropractors. So do 72% of PGA golfers and the majority of NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL teams.
Benefits of Seeing a Sports Chiropractor
Pain relief aside, a certified chiropractic sports physician can help athletes:
- Recover more quickly after a workout or injury
- Improve physical performance
- Train more effectively
- Experience fewer injuries
Chiropractic Treatment Options for Sports Injuries
Sports chiropractors can use a variety of techniques to promote rapid healing, including:
- Massage and stretching, combined with range-of-motion movement
- Stainless steel tools used to break down scar tissue
- Functional dry needling to release deep muscle tension
- Electrical muscle stimulation releases tension near the surface
- Chiropractic adjustments
- and more...
LSM Chiropractic Treats Many Athletes
Chiropractic care helps athletes at all levels of competition recover from injury and achieve optimal performance. That’s why many athletes and active individuals regularly see a certified sports physican at LSM Chiropractic to stay in top shape.
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