What is Sports Injuries?

Exercise or playing sports is an important step in maintaining your health. Exercise strengthens your heart, bones, joints, reduces stress, and enhances your energy and confidence. Unfortunately, sports injuries are too common and in most cases, we play too hard, too long, or too fast. The more commonly injured areas of the body are the ankles, knees, shoulders, elbows, and spine. Bones can sometimes be fractured with acute sports injuries, the most commonly injured structures are the muscles, tendons, and ligaments. Tendons attach muscles to bones, and ligaments attach one bone to another.

An acute twisting or overextension of a joint can lead to tears of muscle fibers and tendons, called “strains,” and tears of ligaments result in “sprains.” Also, your disc can be torn, resulting in a disc bulge or herniation. In those who are training too much, overuse of particular joints in the body can result in pain and dysfunction. These injuries are called “overuse syndromes.” A common overuse injury is tendinitis. In this condition, the tendon becomes inflamed from repetitive use. Some athletes may experience a stress fracture, also called a fatigue fracture. This type of fracture occurs when an abnormal amount of stress is placed on a normal bone. This might occur in a runner who rapidly increases the amount of mileage while training for a race.

Sports injuries are most often diagnosed from the history of the activity that brought on the pain, along with a physical examination. In some cases, x-rays are necessary to rule out a fracture. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and diagnostic ultrasound are also used in finding soft-tissue injuries, like tendinitis and sprains.
Chiropractic care focuses on restoring motion and function to joints, muscles and nervous system. Therefore, the body has the best opportunity to maximize proper function. Many professional athletes are utilizing chiropractic care because they realize that it helps them maximize athletic performance. Also, more and more professional and college teams are utilizing chiropractic care for that same reason.

Talk to Dr. Aflakian about your sports injuries and find how Graston Technique® may help you to maximize your proper function and performance. Only clinicians who have been trained and accredited in the Graston Technique® are qualified to apply the technique and effectively detect and treat scar tissue and restrictions that affect normal function.

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