Preventing Leg Injuries with Chiropractic Treatment

When playing sports activities that require a lot of lower body motion, like football, soccer, and basketball, it's not uncommon 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. Eyerly Chiropractic Offices has seen all of these concerns in our Hazleton and Conyngham patients. Fortunately, chiropractic adjustments can help prevent some of these injuries from happening and research proves it.

Research Proves Chiropractic Helps With Sports Injuries & Recovery

Eyerly Chiropractic Offices keeps up-to-date with all of the latest 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 other half were put in a treatment group that received sports chiropractic care at regular intervals. During the first six weeks, this meant receiving care once every week. The following three months consisted of an adjustment every two weeks before reducing those to one visit monthly for the final three months of the study.

The authors noted that there was a "significant" decrease in the number of lower limb strains the players received in the treatment group when compared to the control. In addition, they observed that the subjects who received chiropractic treatment also had less weeks of missed practice and games as a result of non-contact knee injuries. This led them to conclude that sports chiropractic intervention 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 athletes, because they know that chiropractic adjustments are beneficial. If you live near our office in Hazleton and Conyngham and would like to see if Eyerly Chiropractic Offices can help you boost your performance or reduce sports injuries, give our office a call today at (570) 455-5822 for an appointment.

Eyerly Chiropractic Offices Can Help Clients Find Comfort From Sports Injuries and Recover Quicker

If you're troubled with severe issues, Eyerly Chiropractic Offices and our staff are here to help you recover. Give our Hazleton and Conyngham office a call today at (570) 455-5822 for an appointment.

Bibliographic 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).