Football Players
There is no doubt that football is rough. The sport sees a myriad of injuries, from minor to severe, including head and neck, ankle, knee, and spinal injuries. Chiropractic care is quickly becoming a popular, viable method of treating football injuries, managing injury-related pain, and investing in injury prevention. Currently, all 32 NFL teams utilize chiropractic care for their players and staff. College teams are also finding that chiropractic care can help their players. They are increasingly hiring chiropractors to routinely care for players, helping them recover from injury and physical health.
There are several significant benefits that football players can gain from chiropractic care.
Chiropractic adjustments provide improved mobility for football players. Ensuring proper spinal alignment can increase flexibility and minimize or eliminate pain in movement. Football players often use chiropractic adjustments as an injury prevention measure.
The brutality of football leads to frequent injuries. However, soreness and stiffness are even more common. Many players use chiropractic care to ease the general pain that results from overexertion and rough play, which comes with the territory when one is an athlete. Chiropractic care keeps the body working as it should at optimal athletic performance.
Chiropractic care has long been recognized as an effective pain management tool, and now football players are also discovering the benefits of chiropractic therapy. Chiropractic adjustments can relieve headaches, particularly from head and neck injuries sustained during football games. It also relieves shoulder pain and pain from ankle and knee injuries such as sprains.
A direct correlation exists between athletes who regularly use chiropractic care and a decline in sports-related injuries. Football players who routinely receive chiropractic adjustments experience better flexibility and mobility, which has been linked to injury prevention. Additionally, chiropractic care helps to increase strength, and by making the body stronger, it is more resistant to injury.
Chiropractic care has also been linked with increased muscular strength. This can help football players avoid injury by combining the increase in strength with increased mobility and works to promote endurance and stamina.
A significant number of football players experience groin pain due to injury. Athletic pubalgia, or sports hernia, can cause significant pain. Chiropractic care has been shown to relieve the discomfort within eight weeks when combined with rehabilitative exercises.
Chiropractic care plays a significant role in injury prevention, whole-body care, and pain relief for athletes in one of the roughest sports in the world.