How Chiropractic Care Works Wonders on Baseball Injuries
The crack of a ball against your bat, good! The crack of a back or shoulder, bad!
Baseball, the nationwide pass time, heats up each spring and summer. From little league on up, individuals enjoy swinging the bat and running the bases. Unfortunately, the movements baseball requires can wreak havoc on a person's body, leaving them with strained backs, hurt shoulders, and pulled muscles. According to Livestrong, there are over 600,000 injuries resulting from playing baseball per year, and 5–14-year-olds suffer from 117,000 of them.
Many aspects of high impact sports like baseball—i.e. running, sliding, twisting, and jumping—cause the body to maneuver into and out of awkward positions. If you or a loved one has slid into first and felt a pop or twisted to catch a fly ball and felt a snap, chiropractic care offers several ways to help put you on the road to a complete recovery. Here are a few things seeing a chiropractor will do for the victim of a sports-related injury:
Manage the pain
Baseball injuries frequently involve large muscles, resulting in a high degree of pain if injured during play. Chiropractic treatment offers outstanding relief from severe pain arising from injuries involving the spine, muscles, and joints.
Using spinal adjustments, a chiropractor is able to help the body align itself properly, soothing an injured area. Once the body functions normally, pain is diminished. Sometimes this can be accomplished in one visit, while other injuries require a few sessions before pain diminishes.
Increase mobility
A strained neck, a pulled back, or an overextended knee may cause an individual serious issues in the ability to move. And limping around slowly is nobody's idea of fun!
Chiropractic adjustments are proven to help reduce inflammation and improve mobility in many injury cases. If that last baseball game has you unable to put weight on your knee, your neck won't twist without pain, or your shoulder won't lift your arm, it may be time to visit a chiropractor for an evaluation.
Promote healing
Most injuries that result from playing baseball, such as tendonitis, strained muscles, torn rotator cuffs, and the like, heal better with chiropractic care. Increased blood flow to the injured area and less pressure on the affected region (from re-alignment of the spine) allow the injured area to regenerate, offering a greater chance of healing than without chiropractic care.
Avoid medication
Even over-the-counter pain and anti-inflammatory drugs cause side effects in certain individuals. Allergies, stomach issues, and other reasons result in many injured people steering clear of medication to relieve pain and inflammation. But how?
Before jumping into a baseball game, or even if you or your children play regularly, remember that prevention is worth its weight in gold. Take care of your body by stretching beforehand, being aware of your physical limits, maintaining proper posture, and staying hydrated during the game. With a little extra effort, the chance of a baseball injury can be dramatically decreased.
Contact sports and high impact games such as baseball, whether in a league or in your back yard with your family, include the risk of injury. Avoid suffering from an injury as best you can, and, if you or your child end up with an achy knee, twisted elbow, or smarting shoulder, call Millar Chiropractic to schedule a thorough evaluation as fast as possible. Our chiropractic team of physicians is highly experienced in giving a thorough examination and skilled at diagnosing the underlying cause of a problem and its presenting symptoms.
Give Millar Chiropractic a call today if you need an examination due to nagging pain or a recent sports injury. We have state-of-the-art equipment and are adept at creating effective treatment plans focused on rehabilitation and getting you back in the game! Call our Appointment Center today at (256) 830-0000. Don't live another day with an untreated sports injury or bothersome pain! We are here for you—it's what we do! The only thing you have to lose is pain.
