Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation Cares for Carrolltown Athletes of All Levels who have Back Pain
Carrolltown athletes – young and older alike – loathe being sidelined from their sports. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation understands this! Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation offers personalized, effective Carrolltown chiropractic treatment plans to return athletes suffering with back pain to their sports with more knowledge of prevention and rehabilitation tips to avoid future back pain and keep participating in what they love to do.
YOUTH ATHLETES, THEIR SPORTS, AND SPONDYLOLYSIS BACK PAIN
Back pain may affect young athletes in a range of sports. Researchers suggest that the young person or adolescent with low back pain and back muscle spasm should be followed carefully for increased risk of pars interarticularis fracture associated with spondylolisthesis and spondylolysis. (1) In a new study of 1025 adolescent athletes with low back pain, 30% of them had spondylolysis. By sport, males’ top 3 sports with higher risk were baseball (54%), soccer (48%), and hockey (44%). Females’ top 3 sports were gymnastics (34%), marching band (31%), and softball (30%). Geography and level of athletic prowess may significantly impact the risk of spondylolysis in athletes. (2) This tells Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation that athletes of all ages and all sports warrant attention when experiencing Carrolltown back pain.
MOTIONS INFLUENCING SPONDYLOLYSIS
Carrolltown back pain sufferers often comment that their back pain came on after a certain seemingly non-hurtful move. That’s not uncommon! Past research reports often indicated that repetitive motion of the lumbar spine into extension, rotation or a combination of these as key risk factors for spondylolysis. Such motions were noted in practicing baseball batting/pitching, soccer shooting, and volleyball spiking. Running track and field doesn’t demand such motions, and running athletes are diagnosed with spondylolysis pushing researchers to figure out why. They found that the spinopelvic angles of athletes who run are like those of the above sports’ athletes, making them vulnerable to mechanical stress on the pars interarticularis, too, leading to spondylolysis. (3) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation helps Carrolltown back pain sufferers, athletes and non-athletes alike.
GLUCOSAMINE SUPPLEMENTATION BENEFITS FOR ALL
A recent article explained that endurance athletes has intense joint-loading preceding cartilage metabolism and type II collagen degradation. The type II collagen degradation in soccer and rugby players was increased signifying enhanced cartilage metabolism compared to that of non-athletes while type II collagen synthesis was nearly the same. Glucosamine – a type II collagen – provided a chondroprotective action on osteoarthritis by blocking type II collagen degradation. (4) Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation has more detail on glucosamine and chondroitin supplementation benefits for your spine and joints whether you are an athlete or not!
CONTACT Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Patricia Estrada on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. Dr. Estrada shares how chiropractic care benefits the collegiate athlete in his/her sport.
Schedule a Carrolltown chiropractic appointment for yourself and/or your favorite athlete. Chiropractic care may incorporate preventative care with spinal manipulation, supplementation and specific exercise along with rehabilitative care. Gormish Chiropractic & Rehabilitation makes great effort to get our Carrolltown athletes off the sideline and back into the game as fast and healthy as possible.
