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Solutions for Chapter Preview ♦ 11 ♦ Prior to coming to me some of these patients received poor treatment. Many of them did nothing for their pain. They didn’t know there was a treatment. I have literally treated hundreds of patients for sports injuries who came to see me for back or neck pain. They mention an arm or leg injury in passing, just hoping I can do something. It’s unfortunate that so many people don’t realize there is help for these injuries. SPORTS INJURY OFFICE What is a sports injury office? There is no industry standard as to who can claim that their office is a sports injury office. Simply put, a sports injury office treats the extremities. In other words, the arms (including the shoulder) and the legs (including the hips). Furthermore, they have experience in treating these injuries. Let me state it another way. Any good chiropractor can fix your neck or back whether you hurt it on the athletic field or not. But many don’t work on the extremities or they don’t specialize in treatment protocols for these extremity injuries. In our office we combine chiropractic, physical therapy (heat, ice, muscle stimulation, stretching and more), massage therapy, supports (including taping), braces, and lifestyle modifications (i.e. individualized advice, home exercise, ergonomics, etc.) to treat the types of injuries that occur with athletic activity. (Many of these treatments are discussed throughout this online book.) HOW TREATING SPORTS INJURIES DIFFERS FROM OTHER INJURIES How do sports injuries differ from other injuries? There really isn’t a difference in treatment. Tendonitis is tendonitis; a strained muscle is a strained muscle. The difference is in emphasis, experience, or specialty. If the doctor has a good regimen for tendonitis, muscle spasm, etc., he will be good at treating sports injuries. Some just don’t treat these areas or don’t have good protocols. As I stated previously, it was frustration with poor treatment and the fact that so many people do not know to go for help that led me to write this book. Let me give you a brief example of knee injuries. One of the most common sports injuries we treat is knee pain. Most knee injuries are not the full blown "buckling" of the knee (that might require surgery), but much simpler knee sprains/strains. These injuries are comprised of muscle spasm, tendonitis, and swelling. (See the knee chapter for a much more thorough explanation.) We restore normal function to the knee by treating the muscles of the thigh (which attach to the tendons of the knee) as well as treating the tendons of the knee. Most people with knee pain don't know that their thigh muscles are involved, but they are. In fact, thigh muscle spasms are usually the primary problem. Knee tendonitis is a secondary problem. It is the experienced doctor who knows to treat the thigh for knee pain. The experienced doctor will have good protocols from treating the thigh muscle spasm and knee tendonitis. Sports medicine doctors should know the ‘ins and outs” of treating extremity injuries. In the sports injury chapter I discuss common diagnosis and the treatment needed to heal many sports injuries. Specific injuries include: shin splints, hamstring strain, rotator cuff, shoulder tendinitis, tennis elbow, golfer’s elbow, and wrist tendonitis. Many other specific sports injures are covered in other chapters of this book. The chapters on Knee, Ankle Sprain, Achilles Tendinitis or Plantar Fasciities, and Four Causes of Sciatic Pain, all contain the information that is used in specific sports injuries. These injuries simply received their own chapters. The tendonitis chapter has the main treatment for the tendonitis/muscle spasm complex found in so many sports injuries. If you have extremity pain, whether or not the injury happened playing sports, you should be able to find the information you need to address your pain contained in the chapters of this book. Click the links below for a preview of each Chapter
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