Recovering from sports injury through chiropractic care.
Sports, whether competitive or recreational, are great ways to keep fit, spend some time outdoors and have a great time. However, all sports come with some degree of risk for injury. While adults risk injury from playing their favorite sports, children are especially prone to suffer an injury while playing or practicing their favorite athletics. With all of the great school and recreational athletic opportunities here, sports injury in Twin Falls is a common problem.
Kids today are facing obesity and Type 2 diabetes in numbers that were unheard of just ten years ago. This is largely due to a sports injury, poor diet, and a lack of physical activity.
Golay Chiropractic is your sports chiropractor in the Twin Falls area. We work directly with you to develop custom sports chiropractic treatment plans to help you improve your performance or heal from your sports injuries. Getting you back in the game is our priority!
Some sobering statistics on sports injuries.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, 30-million children and teens participate in some form of recreational or competitive athletics each year. Of those 30-million kids, 3.5-million suffer some form of sports injury. Over 775,000 of these children seek treatment in the emergency room each year. The majority of these sports injuries are from falls, collisions, overexertion and being hit by objects such as hockey sticks, bats, rackets and balls. In almost twenty years of treating kids and adults in Twin Falls as a sports chiropractor, Dr. Golay has seen quite a few of those injuries.
The practice is a higher risk than the game.
The most common types of sports injuries.
According to the American Chiropractic Association, the areas of the body most prone to sports injury are the ankles, knees, shoulders, elbows, and spine. These parts of the body are vulnerable to being hit or to being injured during a fall or collision, but they can also become injured to due repetitious movements. There are several common types of sports injury.
These are just the most common types of sports injury. Obviously, there are more severe spinal, head and neck injuries that can be very serious and even life-threatening.
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There are several ways that a sports chiropractor can help reduce the pain and speed the healing of a sports injury. Our sports chiropractor will ask questions about what the patient was doing at the time of the injury to help him get a clear idea of what’s happened. The doctor may also need to take x-rays to make sure there’s no fracture or conduct an ultrasound to detect any injury to the muscles, tendons and ligaments.
Once the sports chiropractor has diagnosed the injury, he can decide on the best course of treatment. Treatments may include using heat and/or ice to reduce pain and swelling, joint manipulation or realignment, compression and elevation of the limb. Pain relievers may or not be prescribed, as some pain relievers can actually hamper the recovery process by interfering with the body’s immune response and healing mechanisms.