Almost one-third of all injuries acquired in childhood are sports injuries, according to Stanford Children’s Health. Out of the 30 million U.S. children and teens that are involved in organized sports, there are 3.5 million injuries each year–and we are just talking about the young adult population. If you are a loved one is suffering from a sports-related injury, learn how the team at Spine Correction Center can help treat and diagnose your injury to get restore full activity and pain-free living.
The Most Common Sports Injuries
According to WebMD, here are the seven most common sports injuries:
- Ankle sprain.
- Groin pull.
- Hamstring strain.
- Shin splints.
- Knee injury: ACL tear.
- Knee injury: Patellofemoral syndrome
- Tennis elbow (epicondylitis)
If one of the injuries above is something you are facing right now, we have treatments that can help.
Trigger Point Injections
When movements, exercise, sports training, overexertion or even stress become too much, muscles can bunch up suddenly, creating knot-like lumps. Many patients can even feel these lumps, which are tender and can become swollen. These are trigger points, and even if you don’t remember what caused them, the muscles did have a certain point at which they were triggered to bunch up. These trigger areas can result in decreased blood flow to the area of muscle tissue they are in. This allows scar tissue to infiltrate into your muscles. You’ll begin to feel pain that can become very severe and the trigger point will hinder healing of both the muscle and/or dysfunctional joint.
Trigger points can restrict movement and cause muscle weakness and may cause referred and or radiating pain. Our trigger point injections are done to promote healing in the dysfunctional muscle. They take a few minutes and are very effective in the rehabilitation process.
Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Therapy
After an injury, or as a natural result of aging, the number of stem cells needed in certain areas of the body declines. Regenerative therapy solves this problem by delivering a high concentration of growth factors into the injured area promoting natural healing.
According to the National Institute of Health, Regenerative Medicine with stem cell therapy offers a successful alternative to surgery by supporting safe and natural healing.
The procedure is simple and takes just 45 minutes. The regenerative therapy therapy can be performed right in the Spine Correction Center office and can provide pain relief without the risks of surgery, general anesthesia, hospital stays or prolonged recovery. There is a short recovery time after this therapy. Regenerative therapy with amniotic allograft has been used by physicians for years. The injections have been used over 10,000 times in the United States with low reported adverse side effects and have a 100% safety record in Europe with 100,000’s of patients.
Neuromuscular Re-Education for Injury Prevention
One of the best ways to prevent certain types of sports injuries going forward is to ensure that your body is incorporating proper biomechanics when you are active. Whether you are sitting, standing, walking or running, a certain physical stress is put on the body. Overtime, if the body isn’t doing these repetitive movements correctly, the result can be chronic pain, soft tissue damage and injury.
Neuromuscular reeducation “retrains your brain” to practice proper posture and correct bio-mechanics. When posture and bio-mechanics are working as they should, a patients chance for injury or pain going forward is greatly diminished.
Other Treatments for Chronic Pain or Injury
Some injuries present with instant, painful symptoms. Others take there time but then are harder to eliminate. To find long-lasting remission of symptoms or a substantial reduction of pain and physical distress, the Spine Correction Center offers the following non-invasive therapies, such as:
- Chiropractic Care – These adjustments realign the spine and decompress nerves that cause you pain, numbness and other neuropathy symptoms.
- Electrostimulation
- Massage therapy – This can be regular or deep-tissue massage, which aims at removing trigger point or muscle nodes and knots. Massage helps improve blood flow and removes pent-up pressure.
- Exercise and dietary advice/counseling
- Deep Vibration – Vibration is another way to stimulate your circulatory system and help your nerves get more oxygen.
- Neuromuscular Re-education – High-tech rehabilitation equipment is used for some patients to activate damaged nerves.
- High Frequency LED Treatment – This is an advanced light therapy treatment that helps increase microcirculation. It also helps release nitric oxide from your red blood cells so that your nerves are able to heal easier.
- Infrared light therapy or NVP8500/EPS8000 Treatment for circulation and motor function
These therapies train the brain and the nerves to function better after damage has occurred. Sometimes, the symptoms may disappear completely if the cause of neuropathy is identified and eliminated, which is why Spine Correction Center specialists put a lot of effort to provide a thorough assessment of patients.
Call for a Consultation on How to Treat and Prevent Sports Injuries
When it comes to injury diagnosis and treatment, it helps to get a game plan in order early on. Come in for a consultation to discover what treatments would work best for your particular needs and how to prevent injuries from reoccurring. There is a therapy that will fit your needs based on if you have trigger points, chronic conditions, injuries, ailments, or simply want help with nutrition and exercise. To see how we can help you with your health, call Spine Correction Center of the Rockies today at (970) 658-5115!
