Sports Injury Prevention
What causes sports injury?
To optimize your overall function and enhance sports performance, it's crucial to ensure that all approximately 360 joints in your body are functioning correctly. Unfortunately, blunt or repetitive trauma can disrupt this harmony, nudging joints out of alignment, leading to dysfunction, and hampering performance. Maintaining the integrity of joints is key to injury prevention. This involves providing them with proper nutrition, ensuring optimal alignment, stability, and flexibility. Much like other organs in your body, joints require regular nutrition and targeted exercises to stay healthy and robust.
How do we approach injury prevention?
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Spinal Alignment for Nervous System Balance
The foundational step in preventative joint care revolves around maintaining optimal spinal alignment. This not only ensures a balanced nervous system but is also indispensable for clearing any misalignments that may impede nerve communication between the brain and joints. By addressing spinal misalignments, we pave the way for joints to heal and function at their best.
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Precise Joint Adjustments with Gonstead Expertise
Once the spine is cleared of misalignments, the focus shifts to the specific alignment and function of individual joints through targeted adjustments. Gonstead Extremity Adjustments excel in addressing a range of bodily joint issues. From frozen shoulders and sprained ankles to tennis elbows, carpal tunnel syndrome, knee problems, nasal septum deviation, and more, the practice ensures a comprehensive approach to joint health.
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Targeted Rehabilitation for Muscle and Tendon Health
Following joint adjustments, the next critical step involves targeted rehabilitation strategies. This includes strengthening the stability and flexibility of muscles and tendons surrounding the joints. A tailored rehabilitation program not only enhances the overall performance of these structures but also contributes to long-lasting joint health. Complementing this, a proper nutritional protocol is implemented to ensure that joints stay well-lubricated, supporting sustained functionality and preventing wear and tear over time.
Here’s how we helped
Improving Jose’s shoulder mobility
Jose injured his right shoulder from a heavy lifting workout. The pain is in both the front and back of the shoulder joint and is limiting his movement. With specific care from ICON, he is able to get back into the gym with minimal down time.
Unlocking Carlita’s lifted hip
Martial artist Carlita came in with her lifted hip locked up and in pain. She is a blackbelt in Taekwondo so kicking is extremely important for her to win the competition and perform.
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