Chiropractics for Sports Injuries: Shoulders & Lower Back

Video Transcript

"When we are talking about the shoulder we are talking about a very dynamic joint. The shoulder itself can actually move in several different ranges of motion at the same time and that motion lends the shoulder to injury more susceptibly than say to a knee or a wrist or an elbow which has more of a bony attachment and stronger ligaments. We look at the muscles of the shoulder as a primary attachment to the muscles of the skeletal system. If these muscles are in spasms it is not going to let the shoulder move like it is supposed to and that lack of movement can lend itself to injuries, over use, strains, and the list is endless of what can happen with the shoulder especially with all the sports that the shoulder is involved with so it is imperative to make sure the muscular attachments of the shoulder are working like they are supposed to and in addition to making sure that the joints of the shoulder are working like they are supposed to. One of the reasons that I got into chiropractics was that it actually saved my scholarship as I played basketball in undergrad. I had hurt my low back playing basketball in practice and had been out for over 30 days. Now I tried the traditional approach of medicine, doing drugs, and rehab and doing rest but none of that helped until I actually was talked into going to visit a chiropractor. After a visit with the chiropractor she explained to me that the discs in my low back were a little bit swollen, some of the joints had some additional inflammation around there which were cutting off some of the nerve supply down into my legs and I was actually experiencing some numbness in addition to the low back pain, numbness going down my legs and after just two treatments of chiropractics my low back felt 100% better. I was able to get back to playing and not only get back to playing but save my scholarship so thank you chiropractics."