Who benefits from sport therapy / medicine?

First the good news! The expanding interest in health and wellness is reflected in the growth of participation in sports and fitness activities. The increases are not only in organized sports. People are committing considerable time and money to individual programs or sports. Some simply want to get in better shape or stay that way. Others hope to cope with physical deficits caused by illness or aging. All want to have a good time while improving health rather than letting it deteriorate.

Many pro athletes turn to their chiropractor to help them perform at their very best.

Everywhere, men, women, children and seniors (even people with relatively serious physical disabilities) are involved in sport and fitness programs. They are working out, swimming, jogging, running (or just walking regularly) bicycling, playing racquetball, roller blading, using exercise equipment, training with weights, rock climbing, dancing, doing aerobics and yoga and Tai Chi, and engaging in one or more of innumerable other activities for fitness and fun.

Of course, professional and serious amateur sports involve large numbers of talented athletes. To ensure that they can play at peak without hurting themselves and to assist them if they do experience injuries, they rely on highly skilled sport therapist and other professionals, whose numbers include specially educated and certificated chiropractors. Many pros, top amateurs and famous champions in professional, intercollegiate and Olympic sports loyally turn to a chiropractor for assessment, adjustment, guidance and treatment to get a performance edge by enhancing strength, flexibility and endurance.

What are some of the typical concerns of people who engage in sports and are interested in maintaining fitness? Now the not-so-good news. There are problems and risks of injury associated with engaging in sports and physical fitness activities.

Backs, necks, shoulders, knees, ankles, wrists, fingers and toes–in fact, most bones, joints and connective tissues–are subject to misuse and sport injury when people play hard. Seniors, individuals long out of shape or with disabilities, children who haven't yet learned how to protect themselves during physical exertion, and adolescents whose bodies are changing rapidly are among those at even greater risk than men and women in fairly good shape.

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Causes of Sports-Related Injuries

• Overreaching, overdoing it, pushing too hard to achieve health or performance goals;
• Failing to use good judgment to avoid injuries;
• Not knowing your limitations, or knowing them but driving yourself beyond them in the heat of competition and the desire to perform more and better;
• Trying to recapture a lost (or even an imaginary) past of youth and vigor when you excelled almost effortlessly at physical contests and pastimes you now may find so difficult and demanding that they are, realistically, nearly impossible for you;
• Playing all out with insufficient warm-ups, nutrition, training, and guidance;
• Not receiving the most appropriate and conservative treatment possible for injuries that do occur;
• Failing to recuperate fully after injuries or overexertion because you can't wait to "get back into the game."

Remember, help is near to home. If you are concerned about your sport injuries or sport therapy. At MyHealth here in Mississauga you can count on us.  We look forward to evaluate your sport injury and offer you the best treatment or alternatives. We are conveniently located in Streetsville and Port Credit in Mississauga.