What Is Sports Chiropractic?
The focus of sports chiropractic is to provide care in the conservative management, rehabilitation and performance optimisation of the neuromusculoskeletal system for athletes as well as adults and children who participate in sports or physical activities (including weekend warriors). Sports chiropractors are also strongly driven to participate in a multi-disciplinary sports injury care environment to help provide the best care for each athlete.
What Does Sports Chiropractic Do?
Sports chiropractic applies a multimodal treatment approach that includes one or more of the following:
Joint Manipulation
Joint Mobilisations
Soft Tissue Therapies
Dry Needling
Electrotherapy (such as TENS)
Exercise Rehabilitation
Nutritional Advice
Lifestyle Advice
Kinesiology and Rigid Taping
These approaches are applied to injury management in the form of acute, subacute and chronic injury as well as in the prevention of injury (prehab) and the optimisation of athletic performance through the pursuit of the highest efficiency in neuromusculoskeletal functioning.
Common Conditions
Sports chiropractors commonly assess and manage, co-manage and/or treat a wide range of sporting injuries. We also work on both pre- and post-surgery rehabilitation where appropriate.
Some of these conditions include:
Ankle Sprain
Knee Injuries
Achilles Tendon Injuries
Plantar Fasciitis
Rotator Cuff Injuries
AC Joint Injuries
Shin Splints
Tennis / Golfers Elbow
Hamstring Strain
Calf Strain
Low Back Pain
Patellofemoral Syndrome
Quadriceps Strain
Groin Strain
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