CHIROPRACTIC MANIPULATION FOR
SPORTS-RELATED BACK PAIN
Low back pain
in adult athletes is common with a lifetime prevalence of 63%.
The annual
prevalence was 51%. Risk factors included a previous episode
of low back pain, high training volume, and periods of load increase
and exposure to such.
(1) What are
treatment options? Physician members of the American
Medical Society for Sports Medicine are documented
as using a variety of different complementary
alternative medicine treatments for sports related pain issues. A
new survey of these physicians found that 88% of the
11% who answered that they suggested
CAM had done so for at least one type of CAM in the last 12 months.
The top 3 types of CAM suggested were
chiropractic/osteopathic manipulation, acupuncture/electroacupuncture and yoga.
(2) Another study reported that 53.1% of physicians recommended
at least one such CAM option in the past 12 months.
Massage therapy,
chiropractic/osteopathic manipulation, herbs/non-vitamin
supplements, yoga, and acupuncture were most recommended.
Family/general family practice physicians recommended
chiropractic/osteopathic manipulation most often. More female than male
physicians were more likely to
suggest massage, herbs/supplements, yoga, acupuncture, and
mind-body therapies.
(3) Our chiropractic clinic invites all
referrals and is grateful that our chiropractic spinal
manipulation is high on the list of medical physician referrals! And
our Cox®
Technic spinal manipulation is safe, gentle and effective.
Listen to this PODCAST
with Dr. Leisa Grugula on The
Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson a chiropractic back
pain specialist in Arizona who shared a couple cases of
athletes with back pain she helped get back to their sports using
the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management.
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are prepared to help with treatment and prevention strategies.
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