Chiropractic Treatment Helps Prevent Lower Limb Injuries for Athletes

When doing activities that need a lot of lower body movement, like football, soccer, and basketball, it's not at all uncommon to sustain some type of injury to your hips or legs. Between pulled hamstrings, sprained ankles, knee injuries, and more, many people have found themselves out of commission. Dr. Cohen has seen all of these issues in our Holtsville patients. Thankfully, chiropractic can help prevent some of these injuries from happening and research proves it.

Research Supports Chiropractic Helps With Sports Injuries & Recovery

Dr. Cohen keeps up-to-date with all of the recent scientific research, and in a paper published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, researchers from Macquarie University in Australia studied 59 semi-elite Australian Rules footballers. Roughly one-half were placed in a control group and the others were put in a treatment group that received sports chiropractic care at regular intervals. During the first six weeks, this meant getting 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.

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 received chiropractic therapy 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 players, because they know that chiropractic care are beneficial. If you live near our clinic in Holtsville and would like to see if Dr. Cohen can help you boost your performance or reduce sports injuries, give our office a call today at (631) 360-7999 for an appointment.

Dr. Cohen Can Help You Find Comfort From Sports Injuries and Recover Faster

If you're suffering with severe issues, Dr. Cohen and our staff are here to help you get relief. Give our Holtsville office a call today at (631) 360-7999 for an appointment.

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).