Newsletter: November 2002

• Sports, Athletics and Chiropractic
• Sports Injuries
• First Down and Chiropractic to go

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Sports, Athletics and Chiropractic

Chiropractic can give your athletic endeavours an edge. That's why you'll find chiropractors as "team doctors" for professional, college, high school, junior high and elementary school football, basketball, baseball, ice-hockey, handball, rugby, soccer and weightlifting teams. That's also why chiropractic has been used by champions: Tim Witherspoon, Ken Norton and Evander Holyfield of boxing; Ivan Lendl, Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe of tennis; Marcello Angelini and Daniella Buson of ballet; plus world class bikers, golfers and even racing car drivers.

Many amateur and professional athletes wouldn't dream of competing without first getting a chiropractic spinal checkup.

That's why 75% of the San Francisco 49ers received chiropractic care the day they played -- and won -- the 1990 Super Bowl.1 And this is also why 16 chiropractors from 12 countries were present at the 1992 Olympics. 2

How about you? Want that winning edge? A little more balance? A little more lightness to your step? Try a chiropractic "shaping up" adjustment of the spine.

Sports Injuries

Why? If an injury is serious enough to need medical care, the spine is almost always damaged to a greater or lesser degree. Further, medical doctors are simply not trained to locate and correct spinal subluxations -- that is the realm of the doctor of chiropractic.

As superstar Joe Montana stated, "I only wish I had tried chiropractic care a few years ago when I first started having back pain, and maybe this surgery would never have happened." 3

Evander Holyfield, World Heavy-Weight Boxing Champion, echoes the attitude of many world-famous athletes: "I found that going to a chiropractor helps my performance. Once I drove 20 miles to see a chiropractor before a fight. I have to have my adjustment before I go into the ring." 4

How about you? Getting in shape should always include a chiropractic shaping up of the spine.

1. News release, ICA Review, March/April 1990, p. 3.
2. International Affairs, Chiropractic Sports Medicine, 1989, 3 (1), p. 14.
3. Today's Chiropractic, March/April 1989, pp. 60-63.
4. Athletic excellence through chiropractic (pamphlet). Pomona, NY: Chiroforce, 1991, p. 3.

To determine the use of chiropractic in the NFL, a questionnaire was sent to the head athletic trainers of every team in the league. The questions related to frequency and type of treatment used to treat injured players. Of the two-thirds of all trainers who responded, the results indicate a strong use of chiropractic.

• 45% of the NFL trainers had personally seen a chiropractor;
• 77% of trainers had referred players to a chiropractor; and
• 31% of NFL teams had an official chiropractor on their staff.

Reference: Stump JL, Redwood D. The use and role of sport chiropractors in the National Football League: A short report. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics 2002:25(3), p. e2

Why do football players seek chiropractic?

Go to www.chiroweb.com/find/whatis.html to find out.

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Dr. Larry Smith D.C., B.P.E.
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