Sports Injuries and Chiropractic Adjustments: Leg Injury

Chiropractic Therapy Extremely Effective for Leg Problems

When performing activities that demand a lot of lower body motion, like football, soccer, and basketball, it's common 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. Isom has seen all of these issues in our Lenexa patients. Fortunately, chiropractic care can help prevent some of these injuries from happening and research proves it.

Research Proves Chiropractic Helps With Sports Injuries & Recovery

Dr. Isom keeps current with all of the recent scientific research, and in a paper published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, researchers from Macquarie University in Australia studied 59 semi-elite Australian Rules football players. Roughly one-half were placed in a control group and the others 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 decreasing those to one visit monthly for the final three months of the study.

Researchers 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 received chiropractic treatment 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 players, because they know that chiropractic adjustments really works. If you live near our office in Lenexa and would like to see if Dr. Isom can help you boost your performance or reduce sports injuries, give our office a call today at (913) 735-9565 for an appointment.

Dr. Isom Can Help You Find Relief From Sports Injuries and Recover Faster

If you're troubled with severe problems, Dr. Isom and our staff are here to help you recover. Give our Lenexa office a call today at (913) 735-9565 for an appointment.

Original Study

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).