How to Improve Your Performance With Chiropractic Care

When it comes to sports and athletics, maintaining optimum health and fitness is essential. Sports players and athletes are always looking for new ways to not only maintain their fitness levels but also to improve their performance. 

Most people think of chiropractic care as a way to help people heal from injury, particularly injury involving the back or neck. But it can also boost your athletic ability considerably, and even lend a competitive edge.

So what is chiropractic care? And more importantly, how can it benefit your athletic performance?

Chiropractic care is a non-invasive alternative treatment primarily used for pain relief. Chiropractors specialize in diagnosing and treating issues that affect the body's movement, primarily in the spine and back. 

Chiropractic care involves the use of manual adjustments to realign affected areas of the musculoskeletal system. This promotes faster healing and ensures that the joints and muscles can support everyday movement. 

But it’s not just hands-on treatment - a chiropractor will also use prescribed exercises, diet and lifestyle counseling, and physical rehabilitation to get their clients back on their feet.

But advanced care can alleviate pain and injury in more than just the spine and back. It can treat pain in the head, jaws, shoulders, elbows, pelvis, hips, knees, feet, and ankles.

And not only that, it is beneficial beyond the treatment of the injury. Many people who seek chiropractic treatment don’t do so as a last resort but as a means of improving physical performance and preventing possible sports injuries or domestic injuries in the future. 

The ability to train, work out and continue to build muscle strength and control is essential for athletes. After intensive training, the body will break muscles down to promote new cell growth. This is the process through which muscles are strengthened. 

However, the body needs time to recover from intensive training. By utilizing regular appointments with a chiropractor, athletes and sports players can recover more quickly after training sessions. Faster recovery times mean clients can build strength more quickly, making their training more effective and improving overall athletic ability faster than normal.

Studies show that regular chiropractic care can increase agility, balance, coordination, and response times. Of course, all of these things are necessary for an athlete to reach peak performance, but they also lower the risk of potential injury. Physical injury is the biggest risk for anyone who engages in regular competitive sports or athletics.

Improvements in these areas mean the client will be more able to avoid injury in any situation. You are less likely to trip, fall, or collide with other players while playing sports.

This is the most well-known benefit of chiropractic care. Injuries have a significant effect on an athlete's ability to perform, and in some cases can even end a career. 

Though chiropractic care can help prevent injuries during the performance, if someone has been injured then a visit to the chiropractor should be near the top of their to-do list. Chiropractic adjustments help to repair the nervous system after injury, which speeds up the body’s ability to heal. 

Chiropractic sessions also help to rebuild strength, speed, and stamina carefully and incrementally so athletes can continue to perform at their pre-injury ability. Athletes and sports players who get chiropractic treatment after injury will heal faster than those who don’t.

If you want to improve your performance in sports and athletics, chiropractic care is the right choice for you. 

At Mimico Physiotherapy in Etobicoke, Ontario, we have a team of trained physiotherapists who can help you to optimize your physical ability. To make an appointment call us at (647)-351-4000 or book an appointment online here .