Being an athlete requires you to push your body to the limits—and once you reach those limits, you try to push past them. An athlete spends hours each day increasing his or her strength, speed, and endurance. That kind of training can be incredibly hard on the body and takes its toll.
The last thing an athlete wants is to be out of commission due to an injury. Most will try to push onward, using quick fixes like ace bandages, ice packs, heating pads, or pain medication. Unfortunately, this can make matters worse.
A good way many athletes help prevent injuries and facilitate quicker healing is through regular chiropractic care.
Risks of Spinal Misalignments
Misalignments of the spine can put athletes at more risk of developing serious injuries. When the vertebrae are misaligned, it throws the entire musculoskeletal system off balance. The body shifts the posture to try and accommodate a misalignment, causing undue stress and strain on other muscles, ligaments, joints, and tendons. It may limit your range of motion, interfere with your balance, or cause symptoms like dizziness and nausea.
Advantages of Chiropractic Care
Chiropractors help restore the body's proper alignment. This improves the overall musculoskeletal system performance, but the benefits don't stop when the chiropractic visit is over. By realigning the spine, nerve signals can flow freely and the body's natural healing processes commence to help repair damage and restore health more quickly.
Best of all, chiropractic care is a safe, natural, drug-free, non-invasive treatment that helps athletes feel better and stay on their game.
How We Help Athletes
At Upper Spine Knoxville, our upper cervical specialist, Dr. Bejian Shamloo, does not focus on treating individual symptoms, Instead, the doctor seeks to help the body heal by addressing the underlying condition. He works to remove any obstacle that may interfere with the body functioning properly and healing itself.
Dr. Shamloo takes full advantage of cutting-edge technology to better care for our patients. Tools such as Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT), advanced 3-D imaging, infrared thermography, and zero-gravity resting chairs make chiropractic care quicker, more precise, and more efficient.
If you're an athlete, your body needs to be a finely tuned machine if you want to have an edge over your opponents—and like all machines, it requires care and maintenance by an expert so all of the parts work in service to the whole. Contact Dr. Shamloo for an appointment to see how he can help you in your athletic career.
Dr. Shamloo's areas of coverage include Knoxville, Alcoa, Maryville, Farragut, Clinton, Oak Ridge, Sevierville, Lenoir City, Karns, Hardin Valley, Powell, Halls, and Fountain City in Tennessee, as well as the surrounding areas.