Your Lewistown MT Chiropractor Can Help You Recover from Sports Injuries
When an injury prevents you from participating in your favorite sport or activity, do the days seem to drag on? If you don't want to spend a minute more than necessary on the sidelines, consider visiting your chiropractor. In addition to easing pain and stiffness, chiropractic treatments can reduce your recovery time. We've treated athletes from Lewistown and surrounding areas for many years with great results.
The Benefits of Chiropractic Care for Sports Injuries
When you make chiropractic care in Lewistown Montana part of your recovery, you'll enjoy these advantages:
Pain Reduction. Injuries and falls often cause subluxations, which occur when the vertebrae in your spine become misaligned. Subluxations can press on nerves and tissues, causing pain. Spinal manipulation, one of the treatments offered by your chiropractor, realigns your spine and relieves this pressure. Once the pressure on the nerves or tissues eases, pain decreases. During spinal manipulation, your doctor uses an activator or hands-on pressure to realign your spine.
Less Stiffness. Stiffness in the joints, muscles, and soft tissues is a common complaint after a sports injury. Chiropractic treatments relieve stiffness while decreasing muscle spasms and loosening painful knots. Spinal manipulation increases flexibility and range of motion, making it easier to move without pain. Soft tissue treatments, like massage and mobilization, loosen tight tissues. As tissues loosen, pain decreases, and flexibility and range of motion improve.
Reduction in Scar Tissue. Scar tissue forms when your body attempts to repair itself after an injury. Although this process is helpful initially, scar tissue buildup can limit your range of motion and cause pain and stiffness. Chiropractic treatments break apart scar tissue and help you return to normal more quickly.
Faster Healing. Proper blood flow to the injured area is essential for healing. Your blood carries white blood cells, oxygen, and other nutrients crucial to recovery. Spinal manipulation, massage, ultrasound therapy, and other treatments increase blood flow to the injured area, speeding healing.
Less Inflammation. Inflammation is an essential part of your body's response to an injury. Unfortunately, tissues become painful and stiff if inflammation continues for too long. In a study on low back pain and chiropractic, chiropractic treatments moderated substances involved in inflammation. Patients received spinal manipulation treatments during the study, which appeared in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies in 2021.
Reduced Reliance on Pain Medication. When you're in pain, popping an over-the-counter or prescription pain medication is the easiest way to treat pain. Although the pill does ease the pain, it will return in just a few hours after the drug wears off. Chiropractic treats the source of your pain, preventing symptoms from recurring. Treatments also activate your body's natural pain control system and increase the production of endorphins, serotonin, and dopamine. These hormones relieve pain naturally while also improving your mood.
Regular Chiropractic Care Helps You Reduce Your Risk of Sports Injuries
Are you worried about re-injury after you recover from your initial injury? Are you wondering, "where do I find a good chiropractor near me?" Chiropractic treatment treats your current injuries and helps you avoid new ones. You're less likely to become injured when your spine is aligned correctly and your tissues are loose and flexible.
Good spinal alignment is essential for body symmetry. Subluxations affect your body's balance and may cause weakness in opposing muscles. If this happens, you're more likely to lose your balance and hurt yourself when you're defending the goal or trying to shag a fly ball. Subluxations may also increase your risk of injury by changing your gait, the way you walk and run. Fortunately, periodic spinal manipulation treatment will improve your symmetry and balance.
It's not unusual to feel sluggish after being sidelined for a few weeks or months. Chiropractic may help you get up to speed more quickly. According to a study published in Trials Journal in 2019, chiropractic treatment improves reaction time. Military personnel who participated in one chiropractic manipulative therapy session completed a whole-body motor task faster than other soldiers who received no treatments.
Whether you recently experienced a sports injury or want to avoid getting hurt, chiropractic is an excellent addition to your sports regimen. Ready to get started? Contact our office to schedule your appointment with the chiropractor, Dr. Durr or Dr. Hecht at Community Chiropractic Center in Lewistown Montana.
Sources:
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies: Effects of Spinal Manipulative Therapy on Inflammatory Mediators in Patients with Non-Specific Low Back Pain: a Non-Randomized Controlled Clinic Trial, 1/8/2021
Dr. Carson Durr, our Lewistown MT chiropractor at Community Chiropractic Center, enjoyed the benefits of chiropractic care from since 14 years old. He attributes much of his success in athletics to his ability to be available and not sidelined with preventable injuries.