Sports medicine is an area of health care that deals with preventing, diagnosing, and treating injuries in athletes and active individuals.
Being physically active is good for your whole health. However, if you work out too much or misuse equipment, you may injure yourself. Athletes may also develop sports injuries from bad falls, poorly landed jumps, or high-impact tackles.
Sports medicine treats these types of injuries so you can get back to your active lifestyle as quickly as possible and reduce your risk of injuries in the future.
The team at Key Spine Care specializes in sports medicine, using conservative therapies to reduce pain, heal injuries, and restore function.
Anyone with a sports injury needs sports medicine. The team at Key Spine Care treats all types of injuries, including:
You may also benefit from sports medicine at Key Spine Care if you want to prevent an injury, improve recovery following an intense workout, or boost your athletic performance. The team provides therapies that improve body function, flexibility, balance, strength, and your body mechanics.
The specifics of your sports medicine evaluation at Key Spine Care depend on the reason for your visit. However, you can expect a full-body evaluation. The team reviews your concerns and goals, asks about your usual workout routine, and goes over your eating habits.
They also ask about previous injuries and medical history and perform a physical exam. The board-certified chiropractic sports physician can diagnose injuries following a history and physical exam, but may order imaging tests to rule out a diagnosis.
The team at Key Spine Care customizes your sports medicine treatment plan based on your needs and goals. For a sports injury, the team focuses on providing healing therapies like laser therapy, physical therapy, and instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization (IASTM).
To support recovery and help with athletic performance, the team may provide chiropractic care, an at-home exercise program, and nutrition therapy.
Chiropractic sports medicine focuses on your whole health, not just your injury.
A chance for you to come down, meet us, get all your questions answered, and determine if we’re a good fit for what you need – completely FREE of charge. It’s a no-pressure, no-obligation appointment with a specialist, and there’s no prescription or referral required. If you’d like to “discover” what’s causing your problem first, BEFORE you invest any more of your time or money on treatments that don’t work, then Request a Discovery Session.
Everyone is different, so why should everyone get the same cookie-cutter treatment plan? At Key Spine Care, we take the time to conduct a thorough examination and learn what are your unique wellness goals. ONLY AFTER these two steps are completed, and we have determined your individualized diagnosis, do we create a comprehensive and individualized plan to help you resume doing what you love — without the use of rest, pills, injections, or surgery!
At Key Spine Care, we focus on ACTIVE over passive treatment plans, and for good reason. Expert doctors and therapists all agree: An ideal treatment approach encompasses more active than passive methods. If your doctor or therapist is heavily reliant on passive methods such as massage, electric stimulation, heat/ice, kinesiotaping, and posture correction, that is a red flag. In our opinion, treatment plans that rely primarily or exclusively on passive methods such as spinal adjustments, massages, vibration beds, etc. are NOT addressing the underlying issue but rather are masking the symptoms and providing short-term symptom modification.
This is why we proudly and exclusively only offer 1:1 care (e.g. no assistants or PTAs, just you and the doctor for the entire appointment, every time), we work together as a team to implement our shared plan to treat and prevent your symptoms.
While we love our 1:1 time with our patients, we also do NOT want you to be locked into a never-ending treatment plan of 2-3 visits per week for life! Most of our treatment plans are 12 visits or less as we prioritize teaching you how to:
