The Impact of Sports on the Aging Athlete's Body & How Chiropractic Can Help - Advanced Sports & Family Chiropractic & Acupuncture

The Impact of Sports on the Aging Athlete’s Body and How Chiropractic Medicine Can Help

Regular daily exercise is an excellent way to stay in shape and remain healthy. Workouts, along with a nutritious diet, can help prevent the onset of medical conditions like heart disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure. However, some high-intensity activities and sports can have severe long-term side effects on the body, particularly in the case of the aging athlete.

While grueling training can lead to increased physical strength and improved cardiovascular health, they can cause other problems if precautions are not made. Intensive exercise routines that rely on a combination of overexertion and explosive repetitive motions can breakdown the body’s connective tissues and cause an acute sports injury.

While sports injuries are a common hazard for athletes of any age, but they can be especially detrimental to the aging athlete. The intensive lifestyles of aging athletes have often accumulated a lifetime of wear and tear on their bodies. One injury often builds on another, then another, which often snowballs into several aches and pains. If the aging does not listen to their body and take the necessary precautions of rest and therapeutic care, they could push themselves into an acute crisis of an injury. Some of the more common injuries and ailments older athletes suffer from are the following:

Therapies that Help the Aging Athletes Recover

For many of our patients, the first time they seek an appointment with ASFCA is after they have had an incident that has sidelined them from the active lifestyle that they love. These injuries are not only painful for them, but also profoundly discouraging. No one, especially athletes, wants to live a life of pain or decreased mobility. The doctors at ASFCA can empathize because many of them are athletes themselves. This is why we make it our mission to help all our patients recover and get back to the active lifestyle that they love.

Although we are adept at helping our patients post-crisis of a sports-related injury, we at ASFCA prefers a wellness and prevention care model for our athletes. ASFCA’s innovative approach to healthcare focuses on keeping our patients physically healthy and identifying any prevalent issues before an injury occurs. We encourage our chiropractic maintenance plan to help keep our patients active and help them recognize and mitigate any warning signs that their body is communicating. To assist our patients in their wellness journey, we offer $39 new patient special for initial consultations.

In the event our patients come to us post-crisis, we offer several treatments to aid in their recovery efforts. We prioritize our patients when they are hurting most, making every effort to treat them immediately and get them back on their feet. Every patient that comes through one of our nationally ranked chiropractic clinics is evaluated by one of our doctors, who take the time to discuss any concern their patients may have. This grants our patients the chance to work with our doctors to establish a healthcare plan that would work best for them.

We encourage all our patients to get in-clinic digital x-rays; that way, our doctors can evaluate the extent of their injuries on site. Many of these injuries could benefit from chiropractic care. We find the maintenance of the body’s alignment not only helps maintain a patient’s overall health but keeps our would-be athletes up and moving long after their crisis abated.

For our athletes and other patients recovering from an injury, ASFCA also provides physical therapy services. Our rehabilitative team works directly with our patients to strengthen their recovering bodies and help them avoid any potential injuries in the future. Some of the services that we include to aid in recovery include electrical muscle stimulation, intersegmental traction, advanced disc decompression therapy, cold laser, Kinesio & rock taping, therapeutic ultrasound, acupuncture, and custom orthotics.

Invest in Your Health Today!

If you’re suffering from a sports-related injury, please contact Advanced Sports & Family Chiropractic & and Acupuncture located throughout the Kansas City Metro Area. We treat clients with a wide range of concerns and get them back up on their feet to live the active life that they love, free of pain and discomfort. Set yourself on the road to wellness by Scheduling an appointment with ASFCAtoday.

For any more questions on how we can help you, please don’t hesitate to contact us today!