We see a many of sports injuries in our Burton clinic, and Dr. Elganainy is generally able to assist these athletes. Stanford Childrens Hospital states that over 3.5 million children aged 14 and below are injured each year while playing sports. Add that to the nearly 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 minimizing these sorts of widespread injuries. One approach to potentially achieve that goal, according to a study released in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, is to receive routine chiropractic care.
In Australian Rules football, hamstring and other leg injuries are common, often sidelining the players and affecting their team's chance at securing a win. One particular study was administered using 59 semi-elite Australian Rules footballers to see how well chiropractic adjustments could reduce these injuries and help keep them playing.
For this study particularly, all of the volunteers was given medical treatment. Additionally, half of them also engaged in chiropractic sessions at the rate of 1 session per week for the first six weeks, biweekly sessions for the next three months, and one session per month for the remaining three months of the study. The remaining half had no chiropractic intervention whatsoever and were used as the control group to assess the benefits of chiropractic adjustments.
Following 24 matches, specialists noted a lessened amount of lower limb muscle strains in the group that had been given chiropractic care. Moreover, that very group also missed fewer matches related to non-contact knee injuries. This lead the researchers to conclude that chiropractic should be made an addition to sports training programs to dramatically decrease the quantity of leg injuries.
If you or your child are active in sports and you would like to make sure more time is dedicated on the field as opposed to on the bench, call our Burton office at (810) 715-7746 and make an appointment today. We will do our best to keep you in the game!
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