Chiropractic Care Beneficial at Preventing Sports Injuries in Largo
We come across a several of sports injuries in our Largo clinic, and Spinal Health Chiropractic Center is usually able to assist these athletes. Stanford Childrens Hospital reports that more than 3.5 million children aged 14 and younger are injured each year while playing sports. Add that to the nearly 2 million adults hurt annually while taking part in sports-related activities, according to statistics collected by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and you can begin to see the importance of minimizing these sorts of widespread injuries. One way to potentially achieve that goal, as reported by a study released in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, is to receive regular chiropractic treatments.
In Australian Rules football, hamstring and other leg traumas are common, often sidelining the players and impacting their team's odds of winning. One specific study was administered using 59 semi-elite Australian Rules footballers to see whether chiropractic adjustments could reduce these injuries and help keep them playing.
Research Supports Chiropractic Treatment Helps in Treating Sports Injuries
For this study specifically, all of the volunteers was given medical treatment. In addition, half of them also received chiropractic treatments at the rate of one treatment per week for the first six weeks, biweekly sessions for the next three months, and one session each month for the final three months of the study. The other group were given no chiropractic intervention at all and acted as the control group to determine the benefits of chiropractic care.
After twenty-four matches, specialists noted a lessened number of lower limb muscle strains in the group that had received chiropractic care. Moreover, that same group also missed fewer matches correlated to non-contact knee injuries. This lead the researchers to come to the conclusion that chiropractic ought to be made an addition to sports training programs to effectively reduce the quantity of leg injuries.
Spinal Health Chiropractic Center Can Help People Find Relief From Sports Injuries & Help You Recover Faster
If you or your child plays sports and you want to ensure more time is spent on the field as opposed to on the sidelines, call our Largo office at (727) 531-4444 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.
Dr. Stanganelli
Dr. Stanganelli graduated from the University of South Florida in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geology and earned his Doctor of Chiropractic in 2002 from Life University in Marietta, Georgia. Dr. Stanganelli is a native of Amsterdam, New York and moved to Clearwater, Florida in 1978. He practiced in Texas and Florida for 5 years until establishing "Spinal Health Chiropractic Center" in Largo, Florida in 2007.