Sports Injuries

Dr. Anselmi's chiropractic care can improve your athletic ability by helping to keep you healthy and in top form. A combination of therapies, including chiropractic and Active Release Techniques (ART), can prevent minor injuries from becoming major ones without the use of drugs or surgery.

Many team doctors for professional, college, high school, ice hockey, handball, rugby, soccer, running and weight lifting teams are actually chiropractors. Champion athletes have relied on the benefits of chiropractic care to enhance their performance, including:

• Ken Norton, Tim Witherspoon and Evander Holyfield of Boxing.
• Ivan Lendl, John McEnroe and Martina Navratilova of Tennis.
• Marcello Angelini and Daniela Buson of Ballet.
• World-class bikers, racers, golfers and even racecar drivers.

Better Reaction Time and Coordination
In a recent study, athletes under chiropractic care were compared with a control group that received no care. Each group was tested for agility, balance, power, speed reaction and hand racing time. After just six weeks, the chiropractic group had a 10.7% improvement while the control group had a 4.5% improvement. After 12 weeks, the chiropractic group's improvement was 16.7%. The chiropractic athlete reacts faster, coordinates better and executes fine movements with improved and precision - all amounting to an overall better athlete.

Sports Are Designed For Chiropractic Care
Many amateur and professional athletes would not dream of competing without first getting a chiropractic spinal setup. 75% of the San Francisco 49ers received chiropractic care the day they won the Super Bowl - and there were 16 chiropractors from 12 countries in attendance at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Athletes are always looking for ways to improve their performances - chiropractic care is one of the best ways to accomplish this. Evander Holyfield reflects the attitude of many world famous athletes when he says, "I found that going to a chiropractor helps my performance. Once I drove 20 miles to see a chiropractor before a fight. I have to have my adjustment before I go into the ring."

You do not have to be an Olympiad, a professional athlete or even a 'serious' athlete to benefit from chiropractic care. Americans suffer from 17 million sports related injuries each year - many of which could have been prevented by regular chiropractic spinal checkups.

For instance, many leisure sports, such as golf, tennis, racquetball and handball, require one-sided motions that can cause the spinal column to lose its natural balance. Even the kinder, gentler sports can create damage from micro-trauma. A casual game of billiards or table tennis may seem nothing like the collisions of football, soccer or rugby, but micro-trauma caused by repeated movement can eventually wear down a body part as severely as colliding with a defensive lineman or running into a wall.

Treatment and Prevention of Routine Sport Injuries
To treat and prevent sports injuries, Dr. Anselmi balances your spinal column and relieves stress on your muscles, ligaments, tendons and nerves. Sports injuries nearly always jar and misalign your spine and the structures near it - and a trauma to any location in the body can damage your spine. In addition, a blow to the ribs, legs, feet, head, shoulder or torso can radiate to the spine. If you play any sport, you should receive a regular spinal checkup to ensure that the spine is balanced and free from misaligned vertebrae. In addition to solving sport injuries, often before they occur, Dr. Anselmi's chiropractic care may give you the winning edge.

Severe Trauma
Athletes who are suffering from traumatic injury benefit greatly from Dr. Anselmi's customized approach to their treatment. Even after seeing a medical doctor for a serious injury, athletes are encouraged to have Dr. Anselmi evaluate their spines for Vertebral Subluxations. Although the orthodox medical profession specializes in the management of fractures, torn flesh, ripped tendons, dislocations, blood and fluid loss and other emergency attention, many victims of trauma leave the hospital with serious Vertebral Subluxations that can create problems later.

Surgical Intervention
Before submitting to surgery, patients should first explore chiropractic and natural methods. Very often, Dr. Anselmi is able to help patients recover fully without surgical intervention. As superstar Joe Montana once stated, "I wish I had tried chiropractic care a few years ago when I first started having pain, and maybe then surgery never would have happened."