REDCLIFFE's FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC
17 Silvyn Street  REDCLIFFE 4020 Qld
 (07) 3284 2065

 
athletes.jpg (19246 bytes)         The chiropractors are "team doctors" for professional as well as elementary,junior high, and high school football, basketball, baseball, ice-hockey, handball, rugby, soccer and Olympic teams. D.C.'s also help non-team players like those who engage in tennis, swimming, golf and track-and-field. In all these sports chiropractors help keep the athlete on the field and help stop minor injuries from becoming major ones without the use of drugs or surgery.
        And let us not forget the millions of people who regularly perform aerobic workouts. Exercise workouts are much more effective when the spine is balanced. "Getting in shape" should always include the Shaping" of the spinal column by a chiropractor.
        Take, for example, golf, tennis, squash, and handball. Swinging a club or racquet or throwing a ball (all one- sided activities) can cause the spinal column to lose its natural balance and mobility, especially when the action is performed by a beginning player or"weekend athlete".
        But even the kinder, gentler sports can create damage from micro-trauma rather than macro-trauma.
       No one could compare a leisurely game of billiards, pool or table tennis to the collisions of football, soccer, or rugby, but micro-trauma & caused by repeating the same movement -eventually wear down a body part as severely as colliding with a defensive pullback or running into a wall.
        Chiropractic care balances the spinal column and relieves mechanical and structural stress on the nervous system. Sports injuries nearly always jar and misalign the spinal column. In fact, almost all trauma to the body affects the spinal column because the spine is at the centre of the body. A blow to the ribs, legs, feet, head, shoulder, or torso radiates to the spine. Thus anyone who plays any sport needs regular chiropractic spinal checkups to ensure the this/her spine is balanced and free from structural stress
and subluxations (misaligned vertebrae causing "pinched nerves"). There is no question that an athlete performs better when the spinal column is balanced. That is why there are many amateur and professional athletes who wouldn't dream of entering competition without a chiropractic spinal checkup.