When playing sports activities that need a lot of lower body movement, like football, soccer, and basketball, it's not uncommon to sustain some type of injury to your hips or legs. Between pulled hamstrings, sprained ankles, knee injuries, and more, many players have found themselves out of commission. KC Spine and Sport has seen all of these concerns in our Overland Park, KS patients. Fortunately, chiropractic adjustments can help prevent some of these injuries from occurring and research proves it.
KC Spine and Sport keeps current 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 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 engaging in care once a week. The following three months consisted of an adjustment every two weeks before decreasing 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. Furthermore, they noticed 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 conclude that sports chiropractic treatment 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 adjustments really works. If you live near our practice in Overland Park, KS and would like to see if KC Spine and Sport can help you boost your performance or reduce sports injuries, give our office a call today at (913) 766-0054 for an appointment.
If you're suffering with severe problems, KC Spine and Sport and our staff are here to help you feel better. Give our Overland Park, KS office a call today at (913) 766-0054 for an appointment.
Bibliographic Reference
Hoskins W, Pollard H. The effect of a sports chiropractic manual therapy intervention on the prevention of back problems, hamstring and lower limb injuries in semi-elite Australian rules footballers: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2010;11(64).
Dr. John McNeely holds a Bachelor's in Organismal Biology and a Doctorate of Chiropractic, with extensive training in various therapeutic techniques. After practicing in Europe and specializing in athletic rehab in Arizona, he founded KC Spine and Sport in Kansas City to provide top-level care for all.
