Chiropractic Care for Sports?
Author: Lim Kee Shan, Chiropractor
For people who do sports, be it athletes or just casual players at all ages, we tend to push our bodies to the limit — whether you are sprinting down the track, swinging your racquet during a match or even lifting weights in the gym.
However, with great physical demands come the risks of injuries. That’s where chiropractic care comes into play. In this blog post, we’ll explore how chiropractic care can be a game-changer for sportsmen, helping them perform at their best while improving the recovery and minimising the risk of injuries.
What is so good about Chiropractic Care?
Chiropractic Care focuses on the body as a whole, and provides a holistic approach to enhance body function and support the body’s ability to heal itself. Better body function helps in better coordination of the body for better sporting ability.
How Does Chiropractic help in sportsmen performance?
When it comes to sporting competitions or games, whereby a fraction of a second can change the result of it, optimal alignment and precision in movements are crucial to allow sportsmen to perform at its peak. Chiropractic care focuses on spinal health because the spine houses the nervous system – the fusebox to the household.
Have you every imagined what would happen if something goes wrong in the fusebox at home?
When your spine is aligned, nerve signals are able to flow freely, enhancing body coordination, reaction time and overall performance.
Speaking of movements, sportsmen also need to be flexible and have smooth movements. Chiropractic care keeps the joints mobile, ensuring proper muscle coordination allowing you to execute those difficult movements!
Remember we talked about the fusebox to the household? Through smooth nerve signals freely flowing through, it helps our body to heal at a faster rate by reducing inflammation, increasing blood flow and supporting tissue repair. Imagine Chiropractic adjustments is like a pitstop of a F1 race, boosting the body’s healing mechanisms.
Shine brighter with chiropractic care—because life’s better when everything is aligned!
What else can Chiropractic do?
If performance is not what you are looking for, chiropractic care can also aid in injury prevention! And here’s why!
Injury tends to happen when the movement or actions are not done in a correct motion or technique. But if you are constantly training on a day to day basis, technique can be improved but what you can’t improve is the biomechanics of the body. Misalignments (subluxations) can lead to imbalances in our body that will overall affect the biomechanics such as how you walk, run or even swing your arm.
Chiropractors are your saviour! By identifying where these misalignments are and correcting them through specific chiropractic adjustments, it can ensure your body moves efficiently and evenly.
Chiropractors can also evaluate your movement patterns. Are you favouring one side during badminton? Are you running weirdly when competing in a 100m sprint? Are you feeling your back muscles are uneven, costing your overall performance? Adjustments fine-tune your mechanics, allowing the slightest edge against your opponent.
Athletes who benefit from Chiropractic Care
In the recent 2024 Olympics and Paralympics, Chiropractic is available to all athletes at their Polyclinic, proudly by International Federation of Sports Chiropractic. This ensures all the athletes are at tip top shape to perform in the Olympics.
If you are not sold by the benefits of chiropractic towards sportsmen. Let's take a deeper dive into recent studies on professional athletes who swear by chiropractic.
Usain Bolt - Runner
The fastest man on Earth credits chiropractic care for keeping his spine aligned and allowing him to perform as his peak.
“When I was younger, the scoliosis wasn’t really a problem. But you grow and it gets worse. My spine was really curved badly. The early part of my career, when we didn’t really know much about it, it really hampered me because I got injured every year." – Usain Bolt
Michael Jordan - Basketball Player
You have heard of Michael Jordan right? The Six-Time MVP basketball player, he credits a big part of his success to chiropractic care.
Chiropractic care helps keep joints stable and limber, allowing him to stay fast and flexible on the court.
“I didn’t know how much I could improve until I started seeing a chiropractor. Since I’ve been in chiropractic, I’ve improved by leaps and bounds both mentally and physically.” – Michael Jordan
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Bodybuilder
When you heard of Arnold Schwarzenegger, most likely you will know him as the actor in Terminator. But he actually started off as a bodybuilder.
As a bodybuilder, he was named Mr. Universe four times throughout his career and now he is carrying over his incredible physics and skills into acting whereby he is doing his own stunts. Throughout all these, chiropractic care played an important role in the recovery and training.
“What [chiropractors] do is really powerful. You, chiropractic doctors, are really miracle workers. I found out the best way is to use chiropractors, not only after injury, but also before injury.” – Arnold
Your Spine deserves a Gold Medal too!
All in all, we should not limit chiropractic care only to back pains, neck pains and so on, it is a performance enhancer. Whether you are just a casual player or a soon-to-be Olympic athlete, consider adding chiropractic care to your training regimen. Your body will thank you with better performance, fewer injuries and a winning edge over your opponent!
Remember, athletes, your spine deserves a gold medal too!🥇🦴
If you're an athlete and still curious on how can Chiropractic Care help you to perform better? Do contact us here or just book in with us now right away!
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