Sports Injuries

The Winning Edge

Chiropractic can give your athletic endeavors an edge, improve your athletic ability by helping to keep you healthy and in top form and by keeping minor injuries from becoming major ones.

Better Reaction Time and Coordination

Athletes under chiropractic care were compared with a control group that received no care for agility, balance, power, speed reaction, and hand reactiontime. After six weeks, the chiropractic group had a 10.7% improvement while the control group had a 4.5% improvement. After 12 weeks, the chiropractice group's improvement was 16.7%! "The chiropractic athlete reacts faster, coordinates better, executes fine movements with improved accuracy and precision, amounting to an overall better athlete". Many amateur and professional athletes wouldn't dream of competing without first getting a chiropractic spinal check-up. That's why 75% of the San Francisco 49ers received chiropractic care the day they won the 1990 Super Bowl. Dr. Nick Athens, their chiropractor, says: "Athletes are always looking for ways to improve their performance on the field; chiropractic care is one of the best ways to accomplish this". That's why there were 16 chiropractors from 12 countries at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

Sports seem designed for Chiropractic care

Take, for example, golf, tennis, raquetball, and handball. Swinging a club or raquet or throwing a ball are all one-sided activities which can cause the spinal column to lose it's natural balance. But you don't have to be an olympiad, a professional athlete or a "serious" athlete to benefit from chiropractic care. Americans sufer from 17 million sports related injuries each year and everyone with such an injury needs regular chiropractic spinal check-ups.

Even the kinder, gentler sports can create damage from micro-trauma rather than macro-trauma. A leisurely game of billiards, pool, or table tennis may seem nothing like the collisions of football, soccer, or rugby, but micro-trauma caused by reapeating the same movement can eventually wear down a body part as severly as colliding with a defensive lineman or running into a wall.

What your chiropractor does

Your chiropractor balances your spinal column and relieves stress on your muscles, ligaments, tendons, and nerves. Sports injuries nearly always jar and misalign your spine and structures near it. A trauma to anywhere in the body can damage your spine - a blow to ribs, legs, feet, head, shoulder, or torso can radiate to it. If you play any sport you should receive a chiropractic spinal checkup to ensure that your spine is balanced and free from misaligned vertebra causing "pinched" nerves (spinal subluxations). Chiropractic care may give you the winning edge. That is why there are many amateur and professional athletes who wouldn't dream of entering competition without a chiropractic adjustment.

Evander Holyfield, World Heavyweight Champion, reflects the attitude of many famous athletes: "I found that going to a chiropractor helps my performance. Once I drove 20 miles to see a chiropractor before a fight. I have to have my adjustment before I go into the ring".

Joe Montana stated, "I only wish I had tried chiropractic care a few years ago when I first started having back pain, and maybe my surgery would have never happened".

How about you?

Want that winning edge? A little more balance? A little more lightness to your step? "Getting in shape" should always include periodic chiropractic "shaping up" of the spine.

Don't wait for your problem to get worse!!

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