From casual weekend pickup games to highly competitive amateur leagues, athletes commonly sustain a range of damage while playing sports. Every sport and physical activity, from volleyball, hockey, and basketball to weight-lifting, cycling, and running, carries some injury risk. Getting prompt specialty care from a chiropractor can significantly improve your health and prevent future injuries. Centennial Chiropractic Clinic in Springfield, OR, can help reduce pain from your sports injury and improve your range of motion. Continue reading to learn more about common sports injuries and how we can help treat them.

Common Sports Injuries

Some of the most frequent sports injuries include sprains, strains, and stress injuries. Sprains involve partial tearing of stabilizing ligaments around a joint, causing pain, instability, and swelling. Strains represent tears to muscle or tendon fibers from overstretching, producing pain when moving the affected area. Stress injuries manifest as small repetitive tears to the bone, cartilage, or other tissue resulting from overuse patterns over time. You can also suffer more acute injuries like fractures due to a direct blow or collision to your joint, causing displacements and significant pain.

Customized Care Restoring Function

A chiropractor can create a treatment plan tailored to each athlete’s unique injury to reduce pain and improve their overall health. Some chiropractic techniques used include adjustments, electrical stimulation, and therapeutic stretches and exercises.

Chiropractic adjustments help liberate pinched nerves while relaxing surrounding muscle tension to regain motion. A chiropractor can use electrical stimulation devices to ease muscular tightness and swelling and restore coordination. They can also provide therapeutic stretches and exercises to strengthen support muscles around affected joints. Chiropractic care can help athletes achieve long-lasting pain relief and improved range of motion to help them get back onto the field quicker.

Get Holistic Care for Your Sports Injury at Centennial Chiropractic Clinic

Pain from sports injuries can keep you on the sidelines away from the game you love, so contact Centennial Chiropractic Clinic in Springfield, OR, to get the chiropractic care you need to get back on the field. Call us and schedule an appointment today at (541) 726-6521 to enjoy the game you love again.