Preventing Leg Injuries with Chiropractic Treatment

Chiropractic Helps Leg Pain

When playing sports activities that require a lot of lower body motion, like football, soccer, and basketball, it's not uncommon to sustain some type of injury to your lower extremities. Between pulled hamstrings, sprained ankles, knee injuries, and more, many people have found themselves out of commission. Dr. Jerrad Swanson, DC, FMT, DN1 has seen all of these issues in our Lincoln patients. Fortunately, chiropractic can help prevent some of these injuries from happening and research proves it.

Research Shows Chiropractic Helps With Sports Injuries & Recovery

Dr. Jerrad Swanson, DC, FMT, DN1 keeps up-to-date with all of the latest scientific research, and in a study published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, researchers from Macquarie University in Australia studied 59 semi-elite Australian Rules footballers. Roughly half were placed in a control group and the other half were put in a therapy group that received sports chiropractic care at regular intervals. During the first six weeks, this meant engaging in 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" difference in the number of lower limb strains the players received in the treatment group when compared to the control. Furthermore, they observed that the subjects who engaged in chiropractic care also had fewer weeks of missed practice and games as a result of non-contact knee injuries. This led them to conclude 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 treatment are beneficial. If you live near our clinic in Lincoln and would like to see if Dr. Jerrad Swanson, DC, FMT, DN1 can help you boost your performance or reduce sports injuries, give our office a call today at (402) 484-5177 for an appointment.

Dr. Jerrad Swanson, DC, FMT, DN1 Can Help Patients Find Comfort From Sports Injuries and Recover Faster

If you're struggling with severe issues, Dr. Jerrad Swanson, DC, FMT, DN1 and our staff are here to help you recover. Give our Lincoln office a call today at (402) 484-5177 for an appointment.

Original Study

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).