Sports Injury

Germantown Chiropractic Service for Sports Injuries

A sports injury is an illness or type of bodily harm caused by participating in a sport. It can be classified as acute if it happens during play, like a sprained ankle, or chronic if it occurs due to repeated sporting activity, like tendonitis from overtraining.

Sports injuries are not the same as overuse injuries, where the body gets weak and exhausted due to repetitive motions or positions without proper recovery periods between training sessions. Sports injuries occur because: “The body wasn’t designed for that specific exercise.”

Many different types of injuries can occur in sport and active play. The most common are: sprains and strains, loose bodies (bone or cartilage fragments), damaged ligaments, tendons, and muscles, fractures, Joint dislocation, tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis), dislocated shoulder (acromioclavicular joint dislocations), hip pointer, rib fractures, muscle strain, rib contusion, rotator cuff injury, and bruises.

Benefits of Chiropractic treatment in sports injuries

Chiropractic treatment is a highly effective method of managing sports injuries. Germantown Chiropractic treatment works by correcting subluxations and, in doing so, allows the body to function correctly as it should be able to. Sports injuries are often the result of repetitive strain, which acts upon our bodies’ joints or other vital structures and disrupts homeostasis. Sports injuries can put the body into a state where it will not repair itself without proper help from an outside source like chiropractic adjustments. It may take more than one adjustment session to effect change. 

Chiropractic practices like Yentz Family Chiropractic can restore the body to homeostasis when managed correctly after an injury. It’s been proven time, and again that chiropractic can be a successful means of managing sports injuries.

Preventing re-injury through proper adjustment and management techniques

Yentz Family Chiropractic is all about restoring balance within the body so it can function normally once again. After a sports-related injury, it is essential for joints or other injured sites within the body to receive appropriate chiropractic-focused treatment as soon as possible after receiving an injury. The chiropractic initial management plan should focus on spinal adjustments at least three times per week until symptoms indicative of pain or discomfort subside. Then you should follow up chiropractic care with regular maintenance procedures, which can help prevent any future re-injury.

Without proper adjustment and management techniques, these body areas will often be re-injured as a player returns to training or gameplay after the initial injury. Yentz Family Chiropractic can help manage this by providing a means for athletes to regain flexibility and strength while allowing them to complete specific movements with less effort and stress on previously injured joints.