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If you’ve ever had a sports injury, then you know how painful it can be and how much time it takes to heal fully. Maybe you didn’t warm up properly and strained your lower back. Perhaps you hurt the joints in your shoulder and can’t move your arm well. Either way, chiropractic care can help relieve your pain and aid in preventing an injury from happening again. Stoiber Chiropractic has helped athletes in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, bounce back from injury for years and offers many options for treatment. If you’re facing a sports injury or simply want to prevent a future one, here is how a chiropractor can help.

How a Chiropractor Can Help a Sports Injury

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The most common chiropractic care treatment is joint manipulation. A chiropractor will examine your back and stretch it to understand from where the pain begins and what joints are affected. Then, they will place force on the particular area, and you’ll likely hear a “pop,” which is gas being released from between the joints. This process relieves pressure in your joints and gets your muscles, bones, and surrounding areas back to a place of fluid movement. This can return you to the game faster as it offers pain relief and realignment. Other techniques include instrument and light force.

Stretching and Strengthening Exercises

One of the best ways to prevent a sports injury from happening is to build the muscles more prone to injury and ensure they’re well-stretched before activities. Chiropractors will tailor specific strengthening and stretching exercises specific to your injury and show you things you can do on your own to prevent it from happening again. By working injured muscles, you’ll slowly build strength and flexibility in that area. The key is to increase your mobility and reduce any inflammation caused by an injury.

Heat, Ice, Taping and Stimulation

Depending on your injury, you may need to apply ice or heat to it to help the muscles heal and give you a sense of pain relief. The Chiropractors at Stoiber Chiropractic can provide electric stimulation treatment, which is a series of electrical pulses designed to relax muscles, help with nerve pain and reduce inflammation. We can provide ultrasound treatments that use sound waves to help remove trigger points and muscle spasms. Kinesio Taping helps support injured muscles. Your doctor will work with you to find the best combination of these treatments to promote healing.

Massage Therapy

Massage therapy techniques help reduce muscle tension. Tense muscles are prone to injury and restrict motion. Over time tense muscles can lead to chronic trigger points which are highly irritable spots that can refer pain elsewhere in the body. There are many type of techniques our massage therapist uses and she will recommend the right one for you.

 

 

If you’re suffering from a sports injury, give the friendly team at Stoiber Chiropractic a call at (715) 424-8000 to schedule a consultation. With a commitment to providing every patient with a top-quality care and individualized treatment, the Stoiber team will help you find relief. Whether you need maintenance from a sports injury or healing from whiplash, chiropractic care is a beneficial option. To learn more about their services, visit their website.

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