We encounter a good deal of sports injuries in our State College clinic, and Drs. Matt & Annie Reyes is generally able to help these athletes. Stanford Childrens Hospital states that more than 3.5 million children of the ages 14 and younger are hurt each year when playing sports. Add that to the almost 2 million adults injured each year while engaged in sports-related activities, as reported by statistics collected by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and you can start to see the importance of minimizing these types of common injuries. One way to possible achieve that goal, according to a study published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, is to engage in regular chiropractic treatments.
In Australian Rules football, hamstring and other leg injuries are common, often sidelining the players and affecting their team's likelihood of securing a win. One particular study was conducted using 59 semi-elite Australian Rules footballers to see whether chiropractic therapy could cut down on these injuries and help keep them in the game.
For this study in particular, every one of the players got medical treatment. In addition, half of them also received chiropractic sessions at the rate of one treatment per week for the first six weeks, biweekly sessions for the next three months, and one treatment each month for the last 3 months of the study. The other half had no chiropractic intervention whatsoever and acted as the control group to assess the benefits of chiropractic.
Following twenty-four matches, specialists noticed a lessened number of lower limb muscle strains in the group that had been given chiropractic care. Furthermore, that same group also missed fewer matches related to non-contact knee injuries. This lead the researchers to come to the conclusion that chiropractic ought to be added to sports training programs to effectively lessen the amount of leg injuries.
If you or your child are active in sports and you want to make sure more time is spent on the field versus on the bench, call our State College office at (814) 308-9352 and schedule an appointment today. We will do our best to keep you in the game!
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Dr. Matt Reyes was born and raised in Apalachin, a small town in Upstate New York. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology with a concentration in Fitness Development from the State University at New York College at Cortland. He then fulfilled his ambition to become a Doctor of Chiropractic when he graduated from New York Chiropractic College in 2013.
