Chiropractic in Brunswick GA Helps Prevent Lower Limb Injuries for Athletes

We see a good deal of sports injuries in our Brunswick, GA chiropractic Advanced Chiropractic & Wellness Center, and Dr. Halverson is usually able to help these athletes. Stanford Children's Hospital reports that over 3.5 million children of the ages 14 and younger are injured each year when playing sports. Add that to the nearly 2 million adults injured annually while engaged in sports-related activities, as reported by statistics collected by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and you can begin to see the importance of minimizing these types of common injuries. One approach to possible realize that goal, as stated in a study published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, is to engage in regular chiropractic care.

More about athletic injuries in Brunswick GA

In Australian Rules football, hamstring and other leg traumas are commonplace, frequently sidelining the players and impacting their team's odds of securing a win. One specific study was conducted using 59 semi-elite Australian Rules footballers to see if chiropractic could reduce these injuries and help keep them in the game.

For this study specifically, all of the participants was given medical treatment. Additionally, half of them also engaged in chiropractic treatments at the rate of one treatment each week for the first 6 weeks, biweekly treatments for the next three months, and one session each month for the remaining three months of the study. The other group had no chiropractic intervention at all and were used as the control group to assess the benefits of chiropractic adjustments.

After 24 matches, researchers noticed a reduced number of lower limb muscle strains in the group that had received chiropractic care. Additionally, that same group also missed fewer matches correlated to non-contact knee injuries. This lead the researchers to conclude that chiropractic ought to be added to sports training programs to dramatically lessen the number of leg injuries.

If you or your child are active in sports and you want to ensure greater time is spent on the field versus on the bench, call our Brunswick, GA office at (912) 262-9735 and schedule 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.