Chiropractic

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Chiropractic

• Sports Medicine
• Presented by
• Jim Mylonas, Satdip Binning, Don Galovich,
• Jason Leonard, Mark Lique

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Chiropractic

• Chiropractors are considered neuromusculoskeletal
  specialist and are well-equipped to manage
  musculoskeletal dysfunction or injuries typically
  associated with sport.
• Among health care professionals, chiropractors
  are some of the most actively involved in
  sports-related conditioning, injury prevention,
  treatment, and rehabilitation.

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World-Class Athletes and Chiropractic

• Evander Holyfield
• Tiger Woods
• Emmit Smith
• Joe Montana
• Lance Armstrong
• Wayne Gretzky
• Governor Schwarzenegger
• More than 30 of NFL teams employ a chiropractor
  on their full-time medical staff
• 77 of athletic trainers refer to chiropractors

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Athletic Triage Model

• Life Support
• EMS

• Performance Enhancement
• Restoration Regeneration
• Chiropractic
• Massage
• Sports Psychology

• Acute-Non Life Threatening
• Athletic Training

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Five Biomotor Skills

• Endurance
• Speed
• Strength
• Coordination
• Flexibility

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Performance Enhancement Endurance

• Research has shown to increase VO2 Max
• Increased oxygenation through correct posture
• Nutritional Supplementation

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Performance EnhancementSpeed

• Increased reaction time post-manipulation
• Increased CNS stimulation and function which
  increases muscular response

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Performance EnhancementStrength

• Optimal movement patterns and strength through
  economy of motion can be enhanced via proper
• Muscle balance
• Increased core strength
• Nutrition
• Implementation of strength and conditioning
  programs

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Performance EnhancementCoordination

• Increases proper proprioception which results in
  enhanced neuromuscular coordination.
• Allows for proper muscle coordination by
  decreasing unnecessary muscle contractions.
• Proper coordination is essential for increases in
  strength, endurance, and power.

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Performance EnhancementFlexibility

• Increased intersegmental and extremity range of
  motions by
• Joint manipulation
• Soft tissue techniques to allow proper muscle
  balance
• Stretching techniques

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Injury Prevention

• Core strength is critical to injury prevention.
  Adequate core strength promotes better alignment,
  posturing, and stability of the axial spine and
  reduces the risk of traumatic and overuse
  injuries, particularly for athletes engaging in
  severe torquing and twisting movements.
• A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
• Proper joint mechanics
• Proper muscle balance
• Repetitive motions can alter joint function long
  before an injury is present, therefore
  manipulation of joints which are found to be
  dysfunctional can prevent the possibility of
  future injuries

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Injury Prevention

• Due to the chiropractors understanding of
  biomechanical principles involved in sport, it
  helps us not only to prevent injuries but, to
  restore functional integrity through
  rehabilitation.

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Injury Management and Rehabilitation

• Proper rehab of an athletic injury will decrease
  the chance of reoccurrence
• Conservative management of sports injuries can
• reduce down time
• increase speed of return to play
• avoid unnecessary surgeries and medications
• correction of the primary cause of injuries and
  not just symptoms

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Summary

• More and more athletes are using chiropractic
• Chiropractors are an essential member to the
  evolving athletic triage model
• Performance enhancement can be achieved by
  development of the 5 basic biomotor skills
• Injury prevention is achieved by understanding
  the correlation between deviations of body
  mechanics and injuries
• Rehabilitation of sport injuries through
  conservative care

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Summary

• Optimal alignment of the spinal column allows for
  optimal sensory-motor function. This translates
  into enhanced body position and body movement
  awareness, agility, balance, range of motion,
  symmetry of motion, joint stability,
  coordination, balance of muscle tone, symmetry of
  load distribution, reaction time and control.
• It is evident that chiropractic care is critical
  to preventing and rehabilitation of injuries as
  well as maximizing peak performance.