3903 S Cobb Dr #250, Smyrna, GA 30080
(Inside the Emory Clinic Building
on the Emory-Smyrna medical campus)
Call (770) 434-8976
(10 minutes from the I-75 / I-285 Intersection
on the North side)
3903 S Cobb Dr #250, Smyrna, GA 30080
(Inside the Emory Clinic Building
on the Emory-Smyrna medical campus)
Call (770) 434-8976
(10 minutes from the I-75 / I-285 Intersection
on the North side)
We come across a lot of sports injuries in our Smyrna, GA clinic, and Dr. Weinberg is usually able to help these athletes. Stanford Children’s Hospital reports that over 3.5 million children aged 14 and below are hurt each year while playing sports. Add that to the almost 2 million adults hurt annually while taking part in sports-related activities, according to statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and you can start to see the importance of minimizing these sorts of widespread injuries. One way to potentially realize that goal, according to a study released in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, is to engage in regular chiropractic treatments.
In Australian Rules football, hamstring and other leg injuries are common, frequently sidelining the players and affecting their team's likelihood of winning. One particular study was administered using 59 semi-elite Australian Rules footballers to see how well chiropractic could reduce these injuries and help keep them in the game.
For this study particularly, all of the participants was given medical treatment. Additionally, half of them also received chiropractic sessions at the rate of 1 treatment each week for the first 6 weeks, biweekly treatments for the next three months, and one treatment per month for the final three months of the study. The remaining participants were given no chiropractic intervention at all and acted as the control group to determine the benefits of chiropractic care.
Following 24 matches, specialists noted a reduced number of lower limb muscle strains in the group that had received chiropractic care. Moreover, that very group also missed fewer matches correlated to non-contact knee injuries. This lead the researchers to conclude that chiropractic ought to be added to sports training programs to dramatically decrease the amount of leg injuries.
If you or your child are active in sports and you want to ensure more time is dedicated on the field as opposed to on the sidelines, call our Smyrna, GA office at (770) 434-8976 and schedule an appointment today. We will do our best to keep you in the game!
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