Beyond the Spine: Can A Chiropractor Help with Sports and Extremity Injuries?
Updated: 5 days ago
When most people hear 'chiropractic', they immediately think of the 'spine' and chiropractors are mainly known to help with back pain, neck pain or headache. While this is true that chiropractic care is known to be effective for spinal related problems, that's only half story. In this blog, we are going to explore how people can benefit the chiropractic care from sporting related or extremity injuries (such as ankle sprain, runner's knee, rotator cuff injuries or Dequervain tenosynovitis). If you have been ignoring stubborn shoulder pain, a clicking knee or old ankle sprain that just does not function after an injury, this post will guide you how chiropractic care is actually a great place to start your recovery.
Can Chiropractor Help With Sporting or Extremity Injuries?
The answer is 'absolutely yes'. Whether you are professional athlete, a weekend warrior or tradie dealing with repetitive physical demands of the job, our chiropractors in Concord can offer non-invasive and surgery free treatment that help you to go back to your work or sporting field quickly.
Can I Manage My Injury Myself?
While some minor injuries may heal up after few days, it is still encouraged to visit chiropractors to be properly assessed. Ignoring an injury can lead to chronic issue and affecting your daily activities and sporting performance over long-term. Also, many sporting injuries are associated with trauma, therefore, proper examinations are essential to avoid complications.
There are few things you can do to self manage when you injure:
Rest Straight After the Injury:
Avoid excessive weight bearing for first 24-72 hours of injury to avoid further irritation or damage of ligaments or tendons
Resume Normal Activity:
Try to resume normal activities and weight bearing to keep the joint mobility and muscle coordination. Keep moving the injured joint within pain-free range (with slight discomfort is fine too) to stimulate healing response
Ice Pack:
Applying ice pack 15-20 minutes every hour for 2-3 hours to reduce acute inflammatory response
How Can Chiropractic Help with Sporting or Extremity Injuries?
Chiropractors are trained to assess, diagnose and treat most of musculoskeletal conditions. Our Chiropractors have 5 years university training with extensive training in anatomy, physiology, radiography, orthopaedic, neurological and rehabilitation.
Chiropractic care can address the causes of your extremity pain or discomfort, and treatment can help to:
Improve joint mobility and flexibility
Promote healing of the tendons and ligaments
Strengthen muscles to support and prevent future injury
In addition the university training, our chiropractors brings extra expertise when it comes to sporting or extremity injuries.
One of our chiropractor, Dr. Scott Lee brings higher level of specialised extremity care to our Concord clinic. As a Gonstead chiropractor, Dr. Scott has post-graduate training in extremity care, completing Gonstead specific extremity care. As a Gonstead Extremity Certified Practitioner, Dr. Scott provides a complete and comprehensive assessment and care for any sporting injuries.
Dr. Coco Ho also brings additional expertise to Back and Beyond Chiropractic. Dr. Coco has gained extensive experience and reputations from patients over 10-year from working in busy allied health clinic in Ryde. She treated and co-managed many patients with other health professionals, including sports physiotherapists, osteopaths and remedial massage therapist to provide long-lasting solutions for people with all sort of different sporting or work-related extremity injuries. Her open-minded attitude to build strong relationships with other allied health professionals and eager to help people have built trust among many patients around the areas including North Ryde, Gladesville, Hunters Hill, Lane Cove, Epping and Chatswood.
Dr. Coco utilises mix of hands-on chiropractic treatment and rehabilitation exercises to empower patients' healing response. Her treatment modalities ranges from specific chiropractic adjustments or joint mobilisations, trigger point therapy, dry needling, cupping and exercise therapy.
Kinesio taping (K-tape) is good for injury recovery as well as prevention. Taping can support surrounding ligaments, tendons and muscles and provide proprioceptive support for injury prevention.
Proprioception is body's ability to recognise its own position and movements. It provides information about location of your body part during movement by allowing your brain to know the position of your body without relying on visual input alone.
Therefore, better proprioceptive feedback to the brain means that your body will better recognise what movement you are performing, allowing to have better posture during walking, running, tackling and etc.
Research also have shown that spinal and extremity joint adjustments improves proprioception, improve range of motion (mobility and flexibility) and reduction of pain level.
Do I Need Scan Before Treatment?
Scan, such as x-ray or MRI can be useful for some extremity injuries, especially when pain and discomfort are related to acute trauma. Your chiropractor will perform detailed examinations during consultation first and discuss with you to determine if it's appropriate to take scan (to further investigate).
Visit Our Chiropractic Clinic in Concord?
If you are weekend warrior, injured yourself from the sporting field or work, you don't have to wait till Monday Morning. Our clinic is OPEN for 7-day. Conveniently located in Concord, we welcome patients from Burwood, Rhodes, Five Dock and across Sydney’s Inner West.
Book a consultation online or call us 0449 858 802 to start your healing journey today! Consultations are available in English, Cantonese, Mandarin and Korean.
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