subject: Chiropractor Bolingbrook Il | Sports Chiropractic Can Save You For Tomorrow [print this page] Athletic training is a demanding pursuitAthletic training is a demanding pursuit. Athletes need to consider how to start dealing with sports injuries and how a chiropractor can help. Often athlete whether at the K-12, collegiate, or professional level put in training regiments each week that easily amount to more time than the average person spends working at a full time job. Yes, a car wreck victim can benefit from chiropractic because obviously and quite severely that individual has been traumatized.
Muscles and skeletal tissue, in these instances, is radically realigned and pain is almost instant. Well, for a moment, imagine just the simple activity of walking. The average person walks in their life time an average of 120,000 miles. That distance is equivalent to walking the circumference of the earth about 4 times.
Now let us reexamine what we first might have thought about chiropractic. Add to the physical rigor of regular activity that of organized sports and all the sudden you have an athlete who might well in his or her life span walk 250,000 to 400,000 miles. That is twice to three times the average life expectancy of a motor vehicle. That being said the average person trades in a vehicle when it reaches at least 60,000 miles. Vehicles are a great comparison for the athletic body. Think for a moment don't high milage cars have different oil, parts and tires designed for them? Why then would the human body be any different?
If you simply research this topic you will find that sports medicine is quite different from that of acute and maintenance based care. With athletes a doctor is dealing with a specialized group that experience hyper injuries due to specialized stress on the human body. While walking for example a regular person's foot experiences up to four times their body weight. When running a mile for example that weight is compounded over approximately 1,500 to 2,000 steps and is quite different.
The difference between athletes and regular patients therefore is a good reason to seek chiropractic care from a sports chiropractor. Patients receive specific care, and they will likely not be misdiagnosed due to a physician mistaking an ache or pain for a more acute condition that might be experience by a less healthy person.
Physically healthy people heal faster than sedentary people while younger people heal faster than older people. With that in mind chiropractors are taught through their education how to deal with special situations like cranial issues, fractures, sprains, dislocations, and other soft tissue injuries that an athlete can experience on a regular basis. Training and experience allows a chiropractor to properly factor into treatment the age and condition of specialized patients.
A seasoned athlete's injuries can over time amount to similar ailments experienced by those who have sudden trauma. Regular treatment by a chiropractor can stem this flow and often can help a patient heal so that he or she does not experience acute injuries due to repeated pressure or pain. There is an old adage that states, " No pain no gain." A rational person when considering this statement would say that is crazy.
Sure training involves pushing the body often to its limits; however, coaches and athletes alike ignore pain and credit that ability to internal fortitude and character. This might be great in a movie however for physical health it is detrimental. So when seeking treatment athletes and doctors need to recall several key elements. Those elements are that they need to avoid quick fixes, they need to carefully assess and recommend the best treatment for an injury, athletes and coaches need to act quickly when an athlete experiences pain, and finally like in sports pursuits athletes and their doctor need to pursue a complete cure. In other words seek the same perfection in recovery that you seek in training and performance. The next time you are injured please remember that chiropractic are is beneficial and that you body only has so many miles that it too can run.
