Research Shows Chiropractic Effective at Preventing Sports Injuries

We see a large number of sports injuries in our Las Vegas clinic, and Dr. Forsyth is generally able to help these athletes. Stanford Childrens Hospital states that more than 3.5 million children of the ages 14 and below are injured each year when playing sports. Add that to the close to 2 million adults hurt annually while engaged in sports-related activities, according to statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and you can begin to see the necessity of minimizing these sorts of common injuries. One approach to possible achieve that goal, as reported by a study released in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, is to engage in routine chiropractic treatments.

In Australian Rules football, hamstring and other leg injuries are common, often sidelining the players and impacting their team's chance at winning. One specific study was administered using 59 semi-elite Australian Rules footballers to see how well chiropractic care could diminish these injuries and help keep them in the game.

Research Proves Chiropractic Treatment Helps in Treating Sports Injuries

For this study specifically, all of the volunteers was given medical treatment. Additionally, half of them also were given chiropractic treatments at the rate of 1 treatment per week for the first 6 weeks, biweekly treatments for the following three months, and one session per month for the final three months of the study. The other half were given no chiropractic intervention at all and were used as the control group to determine the benefits of chiropractic care.

Following 24 matches, specialists noticed a lessened number of lower limb muscle strains in the group that had been given chiropractic care. Furthermore, that very group also missed fewer matches correlated to non-contact knee injuries. This lead the researchers to conclude that chiropractic ought to be made an addition to sports training programs to dramatically lessen the quantity of leg injuries.

Dr. Forsyth Can Help Clients Find Relief From Sports Injuries & Help You Recover Quicker

If you or your child plays sports and you would like to make sure more time is dedicated on the field versus on the bench, call our Las Vegas office at (702) 722-2225 and make 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.