Keep Young Athletes Healthy and Fit With Chiropractic 
Kids need to be active and sports can play a very important part of helping them stay more active in a fun activity.
Parents often have their kids involved in various sports ranging from football, baseball, basketball, soccer, swimming, rodeo, track, gymnastics, dance, martial arts, and other sports.
The activity helps keeping kids more active and fit while improving their confidence, perseverance, and even improving mental performance.
Playing sports do come with some risk.
The risks vary with the sport and the level of competition, but kids can suffer from many different physical injuries and problems that can range from mild to much more severe.
Some of these problems worsen over time and can set them up for much bigger problems as adults.
Kids can suffer a variety of injuries in sports, these range from…
- repetitive stress injuries to their spine and extremities,
- sudden traumas injuring their spine (neck and/or back),
- impact injuries to their extremities,
- concussions/mild traumatic brain injuries,
- injuries to various soft tissues… ligaments, joints, cartilage, discs, muscles, tendons, nerves, and more!
Often an injury can occur when the young athlete attempts to perform an activity without enough coordination, strength, flexibility, preparation, or warm up.
Other injuries occur because of postural abnormalities that put a particular part of their body in an abnormal position.
When the young athlete then asks the area to perform a certain action, it can damage the joint, muscle, ligaments, etc. This is one reason why we recommend seeing us first before your child starts a season or pre-season of a particular sport.
Lifestyle can effect the child’s risk of injury.
Another problem with young athletes is that their nutrition and hydration are not supplying the critical nutrients they need to repair their body and recover from workouts.
Many dietary habits contribute to general inflammation in the child that increases the probability of experiencing more pain, having more dysfunction, and further hindering their ability to keep up with their workouts.
Sleep is often not quite up to optimal levels which further interferes with performance and recovery.
Fatigue may also cause the child to turn towards using more stimulants like caffeine, energy drinks, and other over the counter stimulants that can increase their risk of harm.
Chiropractic Care Can Help
Doctors of Chiropractic (DC) are trained and licensed to treat the entire neuromusculoskeletal system and can provide advice on sports training, lifestyle modifications, nutrition, sleep, and injury prevention to young athletes.
Chiropractic care provided is safe and effective to help with a variety of childhood problems and injuries.
Dr. Hagebusch is a lifelong athlete and enjoys working with young athletes to help them improve their performance, reduce injury risks, and improve their recovery from various sports injuries.
If you would like to schedule an appointment to have your child see Dr. Hagebusch, contact us @ 903-793-1084 or email us here and we’ll get you set up!
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