SPORTS INJURIES
Stay in the Game with ASFCA, Kansas & Missouri’s Top-Rated Sports Injury Specialists
It’s a widely known fact that athletes worldwide utilize chiropractic care for its natural ability to reduce pain and inflammation while increasing mobility without the need for addictive pain medication or invasive surgery.
A body in motion stays in motion. Staying physically active is crucial to achieving and maintaining optimal health and wellness. No matter what type of athlete you are, the top-rated doctors at Advanced Sports and Family Chiropractic and Acupuncture will ensure you don’t miss out on your favorite physical activities.
Professional Athletes Utilize Chiropractors… So Why Shouldn’t You?
At Advanced Sports and Family Chiropractic and Acupuncture, we understand that every athlete is different, this is why we offer individualized treatment plans for every one of our patients. Our top-rated doctors of chiropractic sports medicine work with each athlete on an individual level, creating a personalized wellness plan so that we can better diagnose and treat each patient.
When you live an active lifestyle, sports injuries are inevitable and can happen quickly. Some sports injuries are noticeable with instant pain and swelling. While others may seem like nothing happened, however after time, you will begin to experience pain symptoms and a reduction in mobility.
A Sports Injury that is Left Untreated Will Severely Affect Your Health and Wellness.
When a significant sports injury occurs, seeking professional medical treatment as quickly as possible is essential. Whether it’s a knee, shoulder, neck, back, or ankle injury, seeking the proper treatment is the only way to ensure that the surrounding joints, muscles, and ligaments don’t become overworked and seriously injured from over-compensation.
ASFCA Board Certified Chiropractic Care is the best way to reduce pain from sports injuries when they occur naturally. Patient athletes who receive Routine Chiropractic Care can also better rehabilitate and realign the body to remove interference and dysfunction caused by sports-related injuries.
Chiropractic Care Not Only Focuses on the Site of a Sports-Related Injury, but It Also Focuses on the Entire Body
Treat, Reduce, & Prevent Sports-Related Injuries Naturally with Chiropractic Care & Physical Therapy
Sports injuries are not always avoidable, but there are natural ways to prevent and reduce the likelihood of sports-related injuries. Our bodies are meant to move, but repetitive movement over time can cause joints to deteriorate, resulting in musculoskeletal injuries and Subluxations that can be extremely painful. Subluxations also interfere with the body’s nervous system and surrounding tissues.
Through the natural power of chiropractic adjustments, we can restore the body’s natural range of motion and remove the subluxation, leading to optimal nerve function.
At AFCA, We Offer a Variety of Therapies and Treatment Plans to Help Athletes Increase Performance and Help Reduce the Risk of Sports-Related Injuries, Including:
- Physiotherapy Therapeutic Exercises
- Chiropractic Adjustments
- Cold Laser Therapy
- Whole Body Vibration Therapy
- Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization
- Red Light Therapy
Athletes Who Receive Routine Chiropractic Adjustments Report Increased Physical Performance in the Following Areas:
- Range of Motion
- Flexibility
- Coordination
- Balance
- Agility
- And much more…
It is no wonder why so many athletes turn to ASFCA and our top-rated doctor’s of chiropractic to keep their body in the best condition possible. If you or a family member have suffered a sports-related injury, don’t wait; call or schedule an appointment online. Stay in the game and optimize your health and wellness. Let the team of experts at one of our conveniently located clinics correctly diagnose and treat your sports related injury.
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Olathe, KS 66061
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Raytown MO 64138
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Lee's Summit, MO 64063
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Belton, MO 64012
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Blue Springs, MO 64014
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1520 N. Church Rd | Suite C
Liberty, MO 64068
816-831-3600
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Such excellent knowledge here:She thought she was studying milk.
What she found was a conversation.
In 2008, Katie Hinde was standing in a primate research lab in California, staring at data that refused to behave.
She was analyzing breast milk from rhesus macaque mothers—hundreds of samples, thousands of measurements. And a pattern kept appearing that made no sense under the old rules of science.
Mothers with sons produced milk richer in fat and protein.
Mothers with daughters produced more volume, with different nutrient ratios.
This wasn’t random.
It was customized.
Her male colleagues waved it off.
Measurement error.
Noise.
Coincidence.
But Katie trusted the numbers.
And the numbers were saying something radical:
Milk isn’t just food.
It’s information.
For decades, science treated breast milk like gasoline—calories in, growth out. Simple fuel. But if that were true, why would it change based on a baby’s sex?
Katie kept digging.
She analyzed milk from 250+ mothers across 700+ sampling events. And the story deepened.
First-time, younger mothers produced milk with fewer calories—but much higher cortisol, the stress hormone. Babies who drank it grew faster… and became more vigilant, more anxious, less confident.
The milk wasn’t just building bodies.
It was shaping temperament.
Then came the discovery that stunned even skeptics.
When a baby nurses, tiny amounts of saliva travel backward through the nipple into the mother’s breast tissue. That saliva carries signals about the baby’s immune status.
If the baby is getting sick, the mother’s body detects it.
Within hours, her milk changes.
White blood cells surge.
Macrophages multiply.
Targeted antibodies appear.
And when the baby recovers?
The milk returns to baseline.
It wasn’t coincidence.
It was call and response.
The baby’s spit tells the mother what’s wrong.
The mother’s body makes exactly the medicine needed.
A biological dialogue—ancient, precise, invisible to science for centuries.
In 2011, Katie joined Harvard and looked at the wider research landscape.
What she found was unsettling.
There were twice as many studies on erectile dysfunction as on breast milk composition.
The first food every human ever consumed—the substance that shaped our species—had been largely ignored.
So Katie did something bold.
She started a blog with a deliberately provocative name:
“Mammals Suck… Milk!”
Within a year, it had over a million readers. Parents. Doctors. Scientists. People asking questions research had skipped.
And the discoveries kept coming:
• Milk changes by time of day (fat peaks mid-morning)
• Foremilk differs from hindmilk (nursing longer delivers richer milk)
• Human milk contains 200+ oligosaccharides babies can’t digest—because they exist to feed beneficial gut bacteria
• Every mother’s milk is as unique as a fingerprint
In 2017, Katie brought the story to a TED stage, watched by millions.
In 2020, she explained it to the world in Netflix’s Babies.
Today, at Arizona State University’s Comparative Lactation Lab, Dr. Katie Hinde continues uncovering how milk shapes human development from the very first hours of life—informing NICU care, improving formula design, and reshaping public health policy worldwide.
The implications are staggering.
Milk has been evolving for 200 million years—longer than dinosaurs walked the Earth.
What science dismissed as “simple nutrition” is actually one of the most sophisticated communication systems biology has ever produced.
Katie Hinde didn’t just study milk.
She revealed that the most ancient form of nourishment is also the most intelligent—
a living, responsive conversation between two bodies, shaping who we become before we ever speak.
All because one scientist refused to accept that half the story was “measurement error.”
Sometimes the biggest revolutions begin by listening to what everyone else ignores.
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