Chiropractic Effective at Preventing Sports Injuries in Noblesville

We come across a good deal of sports injuries in our Noblesville office, and Dr. Dahlager is often able to assist these athletes. Stanford Childrens Hospital states 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 each year while taking part in sports-related activities, as reported by statistics collected by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and you can start to see the necessity of minimizing these sorts of widespread injuries. One way to possible realize that goal, according to a study published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, is to receive routine chiropractic care.

In Australian Rules football, hamstring and other leg traumas are common, frequently sidelining the players and affecting their team's chance at securing a win. One specific study was administered using 59 semi-elite Australian Rules footballers to see whether chiropractic care could lessen these injuries and help keep them playing.

Research Supports Chiropractic Treatment Helps in Treating Sports Injuries

For this study particularly, all of the volunteers got medical treatment. In addition, half of them also were given chiropractic sessions at the rate of one treatment each week for the first 6 weeks, biweekly sessions for the next three months, and one treatment per month for the last three months of the study. The remaining group had no chiropractic intervention at all and were used as the control group to assess the benefits of chiropractic care.

After twenty-four matches, scientists noted a diminished amount of lower limb muscle strains in the group that had received chiropractic care. Furthermore, that very group also missed fewer matches related to non-contact knee injuries. This lead the researchers to come to the conclusion that chiropractic should be made an addition to sports training programs to dramatically diminish the number of leg injuries.

Dr. Dahlager Can Help Patients Find Comfort From Sports Injuries & Help You Heal Faster

If you or your child plays sports and you want to ensure greater time is dedicated on the field versus on the bench, call our Noblesville office at (317) 214-7218 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.