Preventing Leg Injuries with Chiropractic Therapy

When doing sports that demand a lot of lower body movement, like football, soccer, and basketball, it's common to sustain some type of injury to your lower extremities. Between pulled hamstrings, sprained ankles, knee injuries, and more, many athletes have found themselves out of commission. Haque Chiropractic Inc. has seen all of these concerns in our Livermore patients. Fortunately, chiropractic care can help prevent some of these injuries from developing and research proves it.

Research Shows Chiropractic Helps With Sports Injuries & Recovery

Haque Chiropractic Inc. 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 footballers. Roughly half were placed in a control group and the other half were put in a therapy group that received sports chiropractic adjustments at regular intervals. During the first six weeks, this meant getting care once a 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.

Researchers 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. Furthermore, they observed that the subjects who engaged in chiropractic adjustments also had less weeks of missed practice and games as a result of non-contact knee injuries. This led them to determine that sports chiropractic intervention should be added to "the current best practice management."

Every major sports team in the US and the US Olympic Team has chiropractors on staff for their players, because they know that chiropractic treatment works. If you live near our practice in Livermore and would like to see if Haque Chiropractic Inc. can help you boost your performance or reduce sports injuries, give our office a call today at (925) 960-1960 for an appointment.

Haque Chiropractic Inc. Can Help Clients Find Relief From Sports Injuries and Recover Quicker

If you're troubled with severe problems, Haque Chiropractic Inc. and our staff are here to help you feel better. Give our Livermore office a call today at (925) 960-1960 for an appointment.

Bibliographic Reference

Hoskins W, Pollard H. The effect of a sports chiropractic manual therapy intervention on the prevention of back discomfort, hamstring and lower limb injuries in semi-elite Australian rules footballers: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2010;11(64).