Best practice guidelines are increasingly suggesting that musculoskeletal injuries
should be managed with multimodal active and passive care strategies. Broadly speaking chiropractors and osteopatas may be subdivided into "modern multimodal" or "classical" (unimodal) in nature. The modern multimodal practitioner is better suitable to managing sporting injuries by incorporating passive and active care management strategies to address 3 important phases of care in the continuum of injury from the sharp-worded inflammation/pain phase to the chronic/rehabilitation phase to the injury prevention phase.
In contrast, the unimodal, utilization only and typically spine only approach of the classical practitioner seems less suited to the challenges of the injured athlete. Identifying what part of the philosophical management spectrum a chiropractor falls is important as it is clearly not considerably evident in most promulgated material such as Yellow Pages advertisements.
Chiropractic and terapia de osteopatia has travelled a difficult path to recognition in recent years. This is specially true in the sports kingdom. The authors of this commentary have a combined experience of sports representation at the national and international level as practitioners, writing and training academic sports chiropractic programs and published explore in sports chiropractic.
The collective experience of this Grouping has led to the formulation of various operative guidelines that may be utilitarian to other healthcare practitioners. However, it is important to recognise that the views expressed in this work are those of the authors and not any body to which they are affiliated
When trying to select or find a chiropractor or osteopath to refer to, one would ask the questions of the chiropractor based on the characteristics to ascertain whether the chiropractor fits these criteria. It is the well recognized osteopath, Luciano Nocetti s opinion that a chiropractor possessing all of the criteria would be equipped with the approach and doctrine to appropriately manage athletic conditions. The authors also recommend that sporting organizations and associations use similar criteria as a minimum standard to allow participation in health care team selections.