Lead by chiropractors, our sports injury service is the best way to recover from and prevent injury.
We have two decades of experience working with athletes.
Our chiropractors have worked with competitors from every sport imaginable, from hockey to weightlifting.
Preventing Sports Injuries
Prevention is by far the best place to start when it comes to sports injuries.
Every one of us has some kind of inefficiency affecting how we move, increasing our risk of injury.
While these inefficiencies can be hard to spot among high-level athletes, our chiropractors have experience working with elite competitors and numerous post-graduate qualifications equipping them to zoom in on the priority areas for each individual.
Our experience working in sports means that we have an understanding of the biomechanical demands of different sports and are sympathetic to the needs of your body.
For individuals, the best place to assess you is in our clinic. If further assessment in a training or competing environment is necessary, this can be arranged.
For teams, we offer and in-house service where we can come to you. This can work out very efficient because we can provide advice to the whole team on how to avoid problems common to your sport.
Our chiropractors can also offer individual or group training sessions, designed to mitigate strains of your sport and improve performance.
Most athletes will also benefit from some hands-on treatment. Research demonstrating the benefit of manual therapy in the prevention of injury is widespread and compelling. This can be carried out at Worcester Chiropractic Clinic or at your training facility.
Improving Performance
Making your body more efficient has the wonderful side effect of allowing you to push harder.
You will be able to train for longer and more consistently, but will also be able to work at a higher level without aggravating anything.
But there are also other advantages.
Certain aspects of manual therapy come with a performance enhancement benefit.
Spinal manipulation has been shown to improve muscle strength and control, leading to immediate athletic benefits.
Manipulation, soft-tissue therapy and dry needling can also improve mobility.
Performance benefits are the main reason that athletes at the top-level use chiropractors on a daily basis.
Recovery and Rehabilitation
With our understanding of tissue healing and biomechanics, chiropractors are among the best placed to help you recover following an injury.
The exception here is in the earliest stages following surgery, where a physiotherapist’s understanding of surgical procedures makes their advice the most important to seek.
Approximately six weeks after surgery is when athletes should transition to chiropractic care, or be co-managed, in order to regain the highest level of function.
Our chiropractors are also equipped to help in the rehabilitation of non-surgical cases too.
It is a growing trend that soft-tissue injuries are treated conservatively (ie. not operated on). In these instances, progressive rehabilitation is the route to recovery.
Chiropractors can combine dietary advice, hands-on treatment and exercise advice to get you back to fitness as quickly as possible.
