Chiropractic Treatment Helps Prevent Lower Limb Injuries for Athletes

When doing sports that need a lot of lower body motion, like football, soccer, and basketball, it's not uncommon to suffer some type of injury to your lower extremities. Between pulled hamstrings, sprained ankles, knee injuries, and more, many athletes have found themselves out of commission. Dr. Alpert has seen all of these problems in our Jonesboro patients. Fortunately, chiropractic can help prevent some of these injuries from happening and research proves it.

Research Supports Chiropractic Helps With Sports Injuries & Recovery

Dr. Alpert keeps current with all of the latest scientific research, and in a report published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, researchers from Macquarie University in Australia studied 59 semi-elite Australian Rules football players. Roughly one-half were placed in a control group and the others were put in a treatment group that received sports chiropractic therapy at regular intervals. During the first six weeks, this meant getting care once every week. The following three months consisted of an adjustment every two weeks before reducing those to one visit monthly for the final three months of the study.

The authors noted that there was a "significant" decrease in the number of lower limb strains the players received in the treatment group when compared to the control. In addition, they noticed that the subjects who received chiropractic care also had less weeks of missed practice and games as a result of non-contact knee injuries. This led them to determine that sports chiropractic intervention should be added to "the current best practice management."

Every major sports team in the US and the US Olympic Team has chiropractors on staff for their athletes, because they know that chiropractic adjustments works. If you live near our clinic in Jonesboro and would like to see if Dr. Alpert can help you boost your performance or reduce sports injuries, give our office a call today at (770) 472-8989 for an appointment.

Dr. Alpert Can Help Patients Find Relief From Sports Injuries and Recover Faster

If you're troubled with severe discomfort, Dr. Alpert and our staff are here to help you heal. Give our Jonesboro office a call today at (770) 472-8989 for an appointment.

Study Information

Hoskins W, Pollard H. The effect of a sports chiropractic manual therapy intervention on the prevention of back discomfort, hamstring and lower limb injuries in semi-elite Australian rules footballers: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2010;11(64).