Top 3 Reasons Your Student Athlete Could Benefit from Chiropractic Neurology

Sports are a great way for student athletes to learn about adversity, teamwork, self-esteem and develop physical skills. It is also a great way for kids to make friends and develop life-long relationships with mentors and other athletes. That is why it is so important to let kids play.

With that being said, sports can also present injury risk. With athletes getting bigger and faster more quickly than our bodies are adapting, now more than ever, it is important to keep your student athletes tuned up with chiropractic care. In addition, chiropractic care can help with sport performance! In today’s landscape of specialized athletes and with trainers helping to raise kids performance, if you want your student athlete to be successful, chiropractic neurology can be what sets them apart. Here are just three ways chiropractic neurology can help your athlete rise to the top.

#1. Chiropractic adjustments have been shown in research to improve both strength and reaction time in muscles.

What this means: For up to an hour after getting adjusted your muscles are 10% stronger and faster. This allows for optimal performance as well as decreased risk of injury. It gives you a 10% boost over your opponents in two of the most important aspects of sport: speed and power.

#2. Chiropractic improves recovery time. When you compete at any level of sport it is a stressor to your body and system. Therefore taking time to recover is important.

Chiropractic adjustments as well as other modalities like hyperbaric oxygen have been shown to decrease recovery time allowing your body to return to peak performance more quickly. The faster your body can return to health, the faster you can get back to training to get a leg up on the competition.

#3. Sports vision. In our office we work with the brain and nervous system to improve performance.

This means also training the eyes and court, or field vision. With power and speed, sports vision is the next most important ability in elite athletes. You hear all the time about how certain athletes can just “see the field better” or the game “seems to slow down for them”. This is attributed to the speed of the eyes and peripheral vision of the athlete. Both of these things can and should be trained to improve performance.

From working on how fast the eyes can adjust in different situations, to how well you can see side to side without taking your eyes off the target, it is imperative that the eyes work at their best if you want to jump to the next level in sport as well as decrease the risks of injury; especially concussion.