Amelia Chiropractic Clinic Cares for Fernandina Beach Athletes of All Levels who have Back Pain
Fernandina Beach athletes – young and older alike – hate to be sidelined from their sports. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic understands this! Amelia Chiropractic Clinic offers personalized, effective Fernandina Beach chiropractic treatment plans to get athletes experiencing back pain to their activities with more knowledge of prevention and rehabilitation tips to escape future back pain and keep doing what they love to do.
YOUTH ATHLETES, THEIR SPORTS, AND SPONDYLOLYSIS BACK PAIN
Back pain may affect young athletes in a variety of sports. Researchers suggest that the young person or adolescent with low back pain and back muscle spasm needs to be followed closely for heightened risk of pars interarticularis fracture associated with spondylolisthesis and spondylolysis. (1) In a new study of 1025 adolescent athletes with low back pain, 30% of them was affected by spondylolysis. By sport, males’ top three sports with increased risk were baseball (54%), soccer (48%), and hockey (44%). Females’ top three sports were gymnastics (34%), marching band (31%), and softball (30%). Geography and level of athletic prowess may significantly impact the risk of spondylolysis in athletes. (2) This just goes to show Amelia Chiropractic Clinic that athletes of all ages and all sports deserve attention when experiencing Fernandina Beach back pain.
MOTIONS INFLUENCING SPONDYLOLYSIS
Fernandina Beach back pain sufferers often comment that their back pain came on following a certain seemingly benign move. That’s not uncommon! Past research studies usually indicated that repetitive motion of the lumbar spine into extension, rotation or a combination of these to be important risk factors for spondylolysis. Such motions were seen in baseball batting or pitching practice, soccer shooting practice, and volleyball spiking practice. Running track and field doesn’t demand such motions, and running athletes are seen with spondylolysis pushing researchers to figure out why. They discovered that the spinopelvic angles of athletes who run are similar to the above sports’ athletes, making them vulnerable to mechanical stress on the pars interarticularis, too, leading to spondylolysis. (3) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic helps Fernandina Beach back pain sufferers, athletes and non-athletes the same.
GLUCOSAMINE SUPPLEMENTATION BENEFITS FOR ALL
A new article noted that endurance athletes has intense joint-loading preceding cartilage metabolism and type II collagen degradation. In soccer and rugby players, the type II collagen degradation was increased indicating enhanced cartilage metabolism compared to that of non-athletes while type II collagen synthesis was nearly equivalent. Glucosamine – a type II collagen – delivered a chondroprotective action on osteoarthritis by blocking type II collagen degradation. (4) Amelia Chiropractic Clinic has more information on glucosamine and chondroitin supplementation benefits for your spine and joints whether you are an athlete or not!
CONTACT Amelia Chiropractic Clinic
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Patricia Estrada on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson. Dr. Estrada shares how chiropractic care benefits the collegiate athlete in his/her sport.
Schedule a Fernandina Beach chiropractic appointment for yourself and/or your favorite athlete. Chiropractic care may incorporate preventative care with spinal manipulation, supplementation and specific exercise along with rehabilitative care. Amelia Chiropractic Clinic works hard to get our Fernandina Beach athletes off the sideline and back into the game as fast and healthy as possible.
