When performing sports that require a lot of lower body motion, like football, soccer, and basketball, it's common to suffer some type of injury to your hips or legs. Between pulled hamstrings, sprained ankles, knee injuries, and more, many athletes have found themselves sidelined. Dr. Ronda Dalton has seen all of these problems in our Rochester Hills, MI patients. Fortunately, chiropractic care can help prevent some of these injuries from occurring and research proves it.
Research Shows Chiropractic Helps With Sports Injuries & Recovery
Dr. Ronda Dalton keeps up-to-date with all of the recent 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 half were placed in a control group and the other half were put in a treatment 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.
Researchers noted that there was a "significant" decrease in the number of leg strains the players received in the treatment group when compared to the control. In addition, they noticed that the subjects who engaged in chiropractic 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 treatment should be added to "the current best practice management."
Every major sports organization in the US and the US Olympic Team has chiropractors on staff for their athletes, because they know that chiropractic really works. If you live near our practice in Rochester Hills, MI and would like to see if Dr. Ronda Dalton can help you boost your performance or reduce sports injuries, give our office a call today at (248) 977-7039 for an appointment.
Dr. Ronda Dalton Can Help You Find Comfort From Sports Injuries and Recover Faster
If you're suffering with severe pain, Dr. Ronda Dalton and our staff are here to help you feel better. Give our Rochester Hills, MI office a call today at (248) 977-7039 for an appointment today.
Bibliographic Reference
Hoskins W, Pollard H. The effect of a sports chiropractic manual therapy intervention on the prevention of back pain, hamstring and lower limb injuries in semi-elite Australian rules footballers: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2010;11(64).
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