Sports Injuries

Many musculoskeletal complaints arise from injury sustained in sports. Each year we see athletic performance stroke closer to the limits of unit potential. Understanding the biomechanical principles involved helps us to prevent injury and restore functional integrity instability throughout rehabilitation. While our Lipo like extremities transmitted forces emotions at a distance, they also favor musculoskeletal injuries by amplifying forces acting on the body's neuromusculoskeletal system.

This year volumes time put into training by professional and amateur athletes is often quite remarkable. For example, runners may compete in training over 200 miles per week, swimmer's may spend 4 or 5 hours in the water daily, and the acquisition of skills for an event such as a ppentathlon may utilize even longer periods per day.thus, the explantation of athletic prowess can easily be disrupted by major and minor injury problems.

There are good reasons why the athlete should seek a chiropractor for the treatment and rehabilitation of a sports injury. Active people are physically and emotionally different from sedentary ones. Most physicians have not had special training and sports medicine or rehabilitation. Consequently, even outstanding physicians don't treat athlete regularly often make mistakes in the diagnosis and treatment of athletes' neuromusculoskeletal problems.

Sports chiropractic and chiropractic rehabilitation have developed at a considerable pace over the last decade. As with other areas of chiropractic, knowledge and understanding more rapidly expanding, it is necessary for the chiropractic to first be given an adequate basic preparation, and then be reminded of the necessity to keep abreast of the latest developments and advances. Thus, appropriate and timely rehabilitation protocols are essential.