Sports Chiropractic & Rehabilitation
Your Gainesville Sports Chiropractor
If you want safe, natural solutions to manage your pain, our full-service chiropractic clinic is prepared to help you thrive.
Movement is vital to leading a healthy lifestyle regardless of who you are. However, for those who are athletes or consistent gym goers, the pressures put upon the body can lead to overuse injuries, quicker wear and tear, muscle aches, and other discomforts that create physical limitations.
Whether you’re training for a sporting event, game, or competition or have just finished one and need rehabilitation, a sports chiropractor can help you prepare and recover.
The Active Patients We Support Using Chiropractic
Our Gainesville sports chiropractic clinic works with all kinds of athletes at every age and ability, including:
- Weightlifters
- Everyday gym-goers
- Golfers
- Pickleball and tennis players
- Hikers and runners
- Yogis
- Cyclists
- High school and middle school sports players, including basketball, soccer, football, and lacrosse players
- And more
With consistent use of targeted tissues and joints, proactive care is a must. No matter your activity, getting injured is never part of the plan. Your body needs your attention before, during, and after physical activities to continue striving for peak performance.
Sports Injuries & Conditions We Treat
Our clinic will discuss all aspects of your sport, history, pain points, and goals so we can create a wellness and strengthening plan that suits your needs. Whether you’re experiencing pain or not, we can help ensure your body is safe and fully functioning, with each part pulling its weight to effectively support the demands you place on it.
However, should pain or restrictions arise, getting care immediately is vital. This will minimize the opportunity for further pain and a more serious injury. Pushing through pain without advice from a chiropractor can put undue burdens on the spine and musculoskeletal system, so be sure to give your body the care it needs at the first signs of an issue.
Active patients visit our Gainesville sports chiropractor because they are experiencing various symptoms, including:
- Back and lower back pain
- Hip and leg pain
- Shoulder pain
- Neck pain
- Loss of range of motion or flexibility
- Sore or stiff muscles or joints
- Elbow pain
- Knee pain
- Ankle and foot pain
- Weakened muscles or muscle spasms
- And more
Common reasons these sports-related pains occur include:
- Muscle and body fatigue or overuse
- Repetitive muscle and joint use
- Structural imbalances
- Forceful impacts or blows (hits and tackles)
- Improper warm-ups and cool-downs
- Over or under-training
- Insufficient time to allow the body to heal
- Dehydration
- And more
Our chiropractic team partners with an in-house occupational therapist, allowing us to maximize your healing process, potential, and performance. We’ll advise you throughout your event prep, and after so you get the best results and your body stays strong and healthy.
Sports chiropractic is safe and efficient and typically requires minimal, if any, downtime, which can negatively impact all the hard work you’ve put in. We understand the sacrifices you’ve made to get this far; don’t let an injury stand in the way of you and the finish line.
Working with a Sports Chiropractor for Event Prep, Sports Injuries, & Rehabilitation
Determining the actions that are causing discomfort and how those actions affect the body is important to healing and protecting yourself. Our staff doesn’t treat symptoms alone; we treat the reason behind them.
We know you don’t want to miss out on your training or event; you’re driven and determined. Let our chiropractic team help keep your momentum going with our natural, safe, noninvasive care and guidance.
Sports injuries we successfully treat include:
- Rotator cuff injuries
- Sciatica
- Golfer’s elbow
- Tennis elbow
- Impingements
- Tendinitis
- Sprains and strains
- Shin splints
- IT band syndrome
- Weightlifting injuries
- Plantar fasciitis
- And more
Don’t miss another day of training, don’t miss your event, don’t put your body at greater risk. Allow your body to heal so it can perform for you.
Through manual therapies, rehab, strengthening exercises, and stretching, you can build efficiency, muscle mass, heightened mobility, and superior stamina that will propel you to victory. Let’s get you at peak performance levels so you can give it your all.
Instrument-Assisted Chiropractic Adjustments
Your chiropractor will use specially created industry tools to find the affected area and use an instrument that can release quick, focused pressure on it for a more targeted approach.
Common chiropractic adjustments we use include:
- Diversified Technique- the most common adjustment using the hands to realign joints with quick, firm thrusts
- Flexion-Distraction Technique- reverses spinal disc compression by stretching the spine using a special table that provides the movement necessary
- Thompson Drop Table Technique- a table with sections that can be dropped as the rest of the body stays stable, so only the affected area of the body is moved
- Activator Method- using a small tool called the Activator Adjusting Instrument, force is applied on a specific, single, targeted vertebra or joint
These adjusting techniques can significantly improve your body’s structural well-being and get you moving safely and pain-free once again.
Our Sports Chiropractic Care & Rehabilitation Services in Gainesville
When you work with our experienced sports chiropractic clinic, you get more than a quick fix; you get a comprehensive review of how you move, conversations regarding aches and pains, and a plan that helps you achieve your goals.
We offer numerous chiropractic solutions for our athletes, including:
Active Release Technique (ART)
This soft tissue treatment helps heal muscles, tendons, ligaments, nerves, and other connective tissues, offering quick relief so athletes can return to their activities safely.
Diversified Chiropractic Technique
The most common type of chiropractic adjustment, this treatment utilizes a targeted low-amplitude, high-velocity, manually-provided thrust to the restricted joint, often with immediate results.
The Activator Method
Using a hand-held, spring-loaded device on specific points of concern offers quick, repetitive, low-force impulses. It can treat patients in training and after an event to help with rehabilitation and recovery.
Cold (low -level) Class IV Laser Therapy
Laser therapy is a painless, noninvasive procedure that increases oxygen and nutrient circulation, contributing to healing and relaxation. We are the only sports chiropractic clinic in the area to have this efficient and proven method that gets fast results.
Sports Rehabilitation
Just as your body needs a cool-down session after a workout, it needs rehab after an athletic event. You just put many unnatural demands on yourself; allow for some time to heal. Sports rehabilitation will find and relieve imbalances and provide relaxation properties that remove restrictions and relieve aches and pains.
Other Chiropractic Services We Provide Include:
- Chiropractic adjustments and spinal manipulation
- Electric muscle stimulation
- Neuromuscular rehab
- Ultrasound therapy
- Hydrocollator and ice therapies
- Decompression or flexion-distraction tables
- Prenatal services
- Foot orthotics
- Rehabilitation exercises
- Exercise and stretching plans
- Nutrition guidance
- X-Rays
- And more
The Benefits of Chiropractic Care for Your Sports Injury & Event Prep
Whether your goal is to walk your first marathon or compete in your 20th triathlon, you need to depend on your body to see it through. When in pain, seek chiropractic care at the first signs; this is the best action you can take, as skipping treatment can jeopardize your outcome.
We want to help you succeed; you don’t have to quit, you don’t have to suffer.
Chiropractic for sports injuries, preparation, and improved performance has many benefits, including:
- Improved comfort
- Improved joint, soft tissue, and spine function, strength, and health
- Improved focus and commitment
- Better sleep
- More energy
- Improved muscle strength, flexibility, and range of motion
- Reduced mental stress
- And more
When in pain, it’s hard to focus on anything else. Your chiropractic program will be engineered with your personal needs and goals at the forefront. Let us work with you to get your body exactly where you need it: