Unfortunately, injury and sport generally go hand in hand. The reality is, whether playing sport at the elite or social levels, injuries do occur and they can leave long-lasting affects.
While acute injuries can be hard to avoid in the first instance, building up strength and keeping the body healthy, with a stable musculoskeletal system, can help improve all-round fitness, prevent chronic injury and further accidents.
Chiropractic care focuses on providing management and rehabilitation for performance optimisation by treating the neuromusculoskeletal system. Our patients, whether they are in training for high-level competition, or just wanting to keep fit and active, have benefitted from multi-disciplinary sports injury care.
The most common injuries we see at Walkerville Chiropractic are sprains, strains, tendinitis (e.g. tennis elbow), bursitis (e.g. shoulder pain), and a range of joint problems in the shoulders, elbows, wrists, hands, knees and ankles. Other Adelaide chiropractors would find this also.
Often, these injuries comes as a result of their structural system being out of balance, their nervous system is not functioning at its peak and conventional medicines have failed to actually address the problem at hand. Prescribed medications, while effective in treating pain symptoms, look past the route cause of the condition and leave the issue unaddressed – leading to future injury and prolonged pain.
Chiropractors understand the importance of a fully-functioning body and therefore address the body as a whole; looking at the spine, joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments and nerves all interrelate and work together to achieve an optimum level of health. This promotes increased mobility, peak performance, reduced injury risk and faster rehabilitation times.
Using a series of specific adjustments, tailored to your individual needs, our chiropractors realign the areas of the spine, or surrounding joints and help them to function normally once more. This promotes improved nerve transmission and healing potential.
In addition, any of our chiropractors are able to recommend therapeutic exercises or alternative health alternatives to help heal the vital structures of the body. Furthermore, continued chiropractic care, not just after injury, can help to boost the body’s natural disease-fighting systems for you to get the best out of your health all year round.
Along with a good diet and frequent exercise, chiropractic care builds a solid foundation of health and general wellbeing for life-long benefits.
If you’ve recently suffered an injury – be it sporting-related or otherwise – or have any chronic health concerns, please do no hesitate to mention it at your next consultation. The team at Walkerville Chiropractic is happy to talk through treatment and maintenance options with you for you to get the best out of your care.
