Sports Injuries

At All Health Chiropractic Clinic, we offer assessment, prevention, and treatment of an extensive range of physical health conditions, including recreational and sports injuries. It is important to remain healthy when participating in sports whether you play professional sports or workout at a gym daily. Furthermore, most injuries that result from physical activity can be classified as sports injuries. We have seen that it affects amateur and professional athletes and sports persons alike.

Have you recently sustained one of these types of injuries?

We are here to help you get back in the game.

It is no secret that professional athletes continuously aim for new heights during their careers. Every year, records are shattered by individuals who consistently push their bodies to the limit. As competitors, they train rigorously and take their diets to new levels on a daily basis. Yet, despite the ongoing care and precautions that all athletes follow, most will experience some form of musculoskeletal injury during their careers and therefore can benefit from treatment at All Health Chiropractic Clinic.

Common Recreational And Sports Injuries

There are numerous injuries that an individual can incur during athletic and physical activities. However, the following 4 are the most common where recreational and sports injuries are concerned.

If you have recently sustained any of the injuries listed above while participating in sports activities, All Health Chiropractic Clinic can help with a range of treatment options. Our experts are available on an appointment basis and will go the extra mile to ensure that you feel better and there is a reduction in the pain.

Knee injuries

Without a doubt, the knee is one of the most complicated joints in the human body. As a result, it is also an area of the body that frequently sustains injury. Knee injuries are often characterized by a dull ache that extends from your hip to the injured knee, injuries that make repeated knee movements painful, or more serious injuries like a torn ACL.

“Pulled” or strained muscles

Muscle strains are commonly referred to as “pulled” This typically occurs when a muscle gets extended past its normal limits by a tendon that binds that muscle to the bone. Once a tendon gets overstretched, there is an increased risk of repeated injury.

Shin splints

Also known in medical terms as “medial tibial stress syndrome”, shin splints refer to the pain that is caused by tension that is exerted on the shin bone as well as its underlying connective tissues. These are often very painful and debilitating but can be avoided by warming up before physical activity and wearing proper footwear.

Sprains

When ligaments linking two bones together get stretched beyond their normal limits, sprains occur. If this happens once, there’s an increased likelihood that it will happen again.

Chiropractic Care and Sports Injuries

The best way to explain the relationship between chiropractic care and sports injuries is by comparing chiropractors to cardiologists.

Essentially, chiropractors are related to professional and non-professional athletes as cardiologists are to heart disease patients. Athletes who get treated by medical doctors often find themselves sidelined. In other cases, many athletes spend hours after a sports competition applying ice packs to their injuries and taking prescription pain medications.

The problem is that physicians do not treat the human body as an integrated system that chiropractors are educated and trained to treat. Instead, they treat every issue separately. On the other hand, chiropractors provide a more holistic approach and a balanced form of treatment by using physical therapy and spinal adjustments. This enables the patient’s ligaments, muscles, and tendons to return to their normal everyday function.