Chiropractors can enhance your performance by guiding your level fitness and training this can help improve your flexibility, range of motion, and reaction time. A report in the Journal of Chiropractic Research and Clinical Investigation found significant increases in athletic performance after only three months of chiropractic care, and the U.S. Olympic Committee assigns a chiropractor to its staffs for the Pan-American and Olympic Games.

Regular visits can reduce injuries. Adjustments can help you maintain your full range of motion, which protects against muscle strain during workouts and reduces joint dysfunction by ensuring that your joints aren't misaligned. Better-coordinated movement patterns between bone and muscle create a more even distribution of weight, which prevents muscle strain during exercise. This can ensure that your weight distribution is more even or balanced which in turn will help maximize the amount of work while minimizing your energy expenditure.

Any residual soreness experienced the day after an adjustment is the same tenderness that results from a good workout, caused by lactic acid released by tissues that have been manipulated. The risk of injury to a patient is slim: It's 400 times more likely that someone would be adversely affected from ingesting a non steroidal anti-inflammatory drug.

Your Chiropractor considers more than just your injury. Instead he/she will also look to your spine and assess its degree of Flexibility and muscle pliability. It is so important that your whole body is functioning at its optimal best at all times. A supple, flexible Spine has more agility and makes you feel more full of health. Health after all is not the absence of disease or infirmity but a full experience of life physically, chemically and mentally.

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