High School Athletes and Perry Hall Chiropractic and Physical Therapy

High school athletes are a neglected population that will experience lifelong, disabling injuries due to the biomechanical faults they bring to the playing field.

Typically, the athletic physical entails examining the heart, lungs, eyes, ears, nose, and throat but totally ignores a biomechanical examination. The number of young athletes participating in sports with moderate to severe biomechanical problems is staggering and it’s all because an examination of the muscular, neurological, and skeletal systems is not performed in a typical athletic examination.

High school athletes usually do not have a biomechanical examination until after they are hurt. At Perry Hall Chiropractic and Physical Therapy a more proactive approach is taken by performing a biomechanical examination in an effort to identify the faults that will lead to injury. 

 This proactive approach works in preventing injury and establishes a lifetime of attention directed toward health leading to less degeneration and osteoarthritis formation when the individual reaches adulthood.

If your young athlete is taking to the field make sure they see a competent doctor of chiropractic to have a biomechanical examination before they needlessly suffer injuries that could have been prevented. It will pay big dividends over the course of the athlete’s career.

Growing Pains at Perry Hall Chiropractic and Physical Therapy

Growing pains are a phenomenon that most parents just ignore and hope they “go away.” The pain of this condition may “go away” but the structural consequences of this situation are only going to worsen over time.

Growing pains is a unique situation that can appear anywhere but we will use one specific area of the body as an example. In this example, the lumbar vertebrae of the low back are growing rapidly (growth spurts occur at night while asleep and a youth can grow up to ¼ inch per night) and the fascia (fascia is thick, fibrous tissue) and muscles cannot grow fast enough to keep up with the quickly growing bones.  When this combination occurs in the low back area it results in the fascia and muscles pulling the vertebrae into unnatural and painful positions.

During this stage of life the tissues are very supple and elastic so maintaining proper structural alignment will pay off in good spinal development with less spinal problems when the adolescent reaches adulthood.

Growing pains should not be ignored because the resulting structural deformity may plague you for your entire life. Seek professional care and help your body grow straight and pain free. 

Athletic Back Injuries at Perry Hall Chiropractic and Physical Therapy

Low back injuries are not common in young people unless they play sports. Athletic back injuries occur in 10 to 15 percent of players and have been recorded as high as 50 percent in football linemen. Such injuries may occur in one single traumatic event or can be an accumulation of microtraumas caused by small repeated injuries to joints occurring over long periods of time. Microtraumatic injuries are the type commonly found in sports such as gymnastics, diving, and dance.

At Perry Hall Chiropractic and Physical Therapy it is common to see people who have participated in gymnastics, cheerleading, or dance that have injured themselves while playing these sports, did not seek care in a timely manner, and are continuing to experience pain many years after abandoning their athletic careers.

People who have participated in sports are strongly advised to have their spines checked by a Doctor of Chiropractic who is well versed in the types of injuries that could have occurred to their spine even if they are not currently experiencing pain. Prevention in these cases pays big dividends over the years if degeneration or osteoarthritis is prevented from occurring or is stopped from progressing. Often, long-forgotten injuries do not hurt until the degeneration is well advanced and permanent. Get your spine checked before this condition becomes permanent.

Athletic back injuries are nothing to ignore whether they occurred yesterday or 20 years ago.

Sacral Pain and Perry Hall Chiropractic and Physical Therapy

Sacral pain is a common condition we encounter at Perry Hall Chiropractic and Physical Therapy. Sacral pain may present just like so many other types of low back pain that it must be properly diagnosed otherwise the correct treatment cannot be administered. That is why an initial evaluation is so important in treating these types of problems.

All too often we hear that a person’s family doctor, therapist, or friend tells them it is “probably arthritis… just learn to live with it.” But that is poor advice because you do not have to live with this condition. As a matter of fact, just the opposite is true. If this condition is not properly diagnosed and corrected osteoarthritis can form because of your neglect and then you have a permanent problem that is much more difficult to manage.

Early diagnosis and treatment is paramount for your health and well-being. Soft flexible orthotics to stabilize the pelvis along with gentle chiropractic techniques and physical therapeutic modalities usually yields good results within a relatively short period of time. Don’t let sacral pain ruin your life.

Perry Hall Chiropractic & Physical Therpay uses Spinal Decompression in Perry Hall Maryland

Here at Perry Hall Chiropractic & Physical Therapy, Spinal decompression is just one of many treatments we use to help people with back pain, leg pain, numbness, and tingling in the legs and feet.  As well as neck pain and numbness and tingling in the arms and hands. 

How Does Non-Surgical Decompression Work?

The Triton DTS non-surgical spinal decompression allows patients to achieve relief from severe back pain by gently reducing the pressure within lumbar discs. The vertebrae of the lumbar spine are slowly and specifically separated using the state-of-the-art DTS Spinal Decompression Unit. As the bones are separated, pressure is slowly reduced within the disc until a vacuum is formed. This vacuum “pulls” the jelly-like center of the disc back inside thereby reducing the disc bulge or disc herniation. By reducing the disc bulge, we are able to reduce pressure off the spinal nerves which are so close to the disc. This process drastically reduces pain and disability. The “sucking” vacuum also pulls much-needed oxygen, nutrients and fluid into injured and degenerated discs allowing the healing to begin. Because the process is non-surgical, no tissue is actually cut in order to reduce pressure.  The whole process takes anywhere from 8 to 17 minutes depending on your condition. 

So if you are suffering from neck or back pain with numbness and tingling, why not give Perry Hall Chiropractic & Physical Therapy a call for a Complimentary Consultation.  Just mention this blog when you call. 

Dr. Dennis Travagline