We deal with a many of sports injuries in our South Buffalo office, and Dr. Nowak is often able to assist these athletes. Stanford Childrens Hospital reports that over 3.5 million children of the ages 14 and below are hurt each year while playing sports. Add that to the almost 2 million adults hurt annually while participating in sports-related activities, as reported by statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and you can start to see the importance of preventing these types of common injuries. One approach to potentially achieve that goal, according to a study published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, is to engage in routine chiropractic treatments.
In Australian Rules football, hamstring and other leg injuries are commonplace, often sidelining the players and affecting their team's chance at winning. One specific study was conducted using 59 semi-elite Australian Rules footballers to see whether chiropractic treatment could lessen these injuries and help keep them playing.
Research Proves Chiropractic Adjustments Helps in Treating Sports Injuries
For this study particularly, all of the participants received medical treatment. In addition, half of them also engaged in chiropractic sessions at the rate of one treatment each week for the first 6 weeks, biweekly sessions for the following three months, and one treatment each month for the final three months of the study. The other participants were given no chiropractic intervention at all and acted as the control group to determine the benefits of chiropractic care.
After 24 matches, researchers noticed a diminished amount of lower limb muscle strains in the group that had been given chiropractic care. Moreover, that very group also missed fewer matches connected to non-contact knee injuries. This lead the researchers to conclude that chiropractic should be made an addition to sports training programs to effectively lessen the number of leg injuries.
Dr. Nowak Can Help People Find Comfort From Sports Injuries & Help You Recover Faster
If you or your child are active in sports and you would like to ensure more time is spent on the field versus on the sidelines, call our South Buffalo office at (716) 825-4121 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.
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