An Easy Way to Reduce Injury Risk
Focus on Prevention.
Whether providing prevention education, structural adjustments or ancillary care, your chiropractor has a role to play with young athletes. Chiropractors will typically take more time to assess the injury site, provide appropriate care, and most importantly, recommend/teach how to prevent future injuries. Chiropractors can provide extremity adjusting, stretching and rehabilitation, and even recommend nutritional protocols to help performance and injury recovery.
The larger role the chiropractor can play involves developing a schedule of care for your child that’s not pain – or relief-based only. Your child will definitely benefit from regular spinal and extremity examinations and screenings. Rather then waiting for an injury to take place, why not introduce your young athlete to a proven prevention model that will keep them pain-free and in the game? After all, that’s what it’s all about: keeping them safe and able to participate in the activities they most enjoy.
Source: Claudia Anrig, DC
