Chiropractic Care Helps Leg Problems
When playing activities that demand a lot of lower body movement, like football, soccer, and basketball, it's common to suffer 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. Spinal Health Chiropractic Center has seen all of these concerns in our Largo patients. Thankfully, chiropractic care can help prevent some of these injuries from developing and research proves it.
Research Proves Chiropractic Helps With Sports Injuries & Recovery
Spinal Health Chiropractic Center keeps current with all of the recent scientific research, and in a report 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 other half were put in a treatment group that received sports chiropractic adjustments at regular intervals. During the first six weeks, this meant receiving 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.
Researchers noted that there was a "significant" difference in the number of leg strains the players received in the treatment group when compared to the control. Furthermore, they noticed that the subjects who received chiropractic treatment also had fewer 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 organization in the United States and the US Olympic Team has chiropractors on staff for their athletes, because they know that chiropractic treatment works. If you live near our office in Largo and would like to see if Spinal Health Chiropractic Center can help you boost your performance or reduce sports injuries, give our office a call today at (727) 531-4444 for an appointment.
Spinal Health Chiropractic Center Can Help Clients Find Comfort From Sports Injuries and Recover Faster
If you're struggling with severe problems, Spinal Health Chiropractic Center and our staff are here to help you recover. Give our Largo office a call today at (727) 531-4444 for an appointment.
Original Study
Hoskins W, Pollard H. 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 2010;11(64).
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.