Sports Injuries and Chiropractic Adjustments: Leg Injury

When doing sports activities that require a lot of lower body movement, like football, soccer, and basketball, it's not uncommon to sustain some type of injury to your hips or legs. Between pulled hamstrings, sprained ankles, knee injuries, and more, many athletes have found themselves sidelined. Dynamic Chiropractic has seen all of these concerns in our Memphis patients. Fortunately, chiropractic can help prevent some of these injuries from happening and research proves it.

Research Supports Chiropractic Helps With Sports Injuries & Recovery

Dynamic Chiropractic keeps up-to-date with all of the recent scientific research, and in a paper 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 therapy group that received sports chiropractic care 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 decreasing those to one visit monthly for the final three months of the study.

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

Every major sports organization in the United States and the US Olympic Team has chiropractors on staff for their players, because they know that chiropractic treatment really works. If you live near our office in Memphis and would like to see if Dynamic Chiropractic can help you boost your performance or reduce sports injuries, give our office a call today at (901) 757-8311 for an appointment.

Dynamic Chiropractic Can Help People Find Relief From Sports Injuries and Recover Faster

If you're struggling with severe discomfort, Dynamic Chiropractic and our staff are here to help you heal. Give our Memphis office a call today at (901) 757-8311 for an appointment.

Study Information

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