Improving Athletic Performance
Chiropractors have worked with runners and other athletes utilizing Injury Recall Technique (lRT) and the Erchonia Cold Laser to treat a variety of overuse injuries. Besides fixing the problem they have improved outcomes with faster race times and with no reoccurrence of the problem.
Medical researchers have been using low-energy lasers and these successful studies initially helped establish FDA approval and clearance in 2002 to treat neuromuscular-medical conditions. The cold laser works at a cellular level and it increases the production of ATP the basic units of energy that we use to provide power to our cells for neuromuscular activity in our nerves, muscles, and ligaments.
When treating pre-existing medical/athletic conditions in sports, Injury Recall Technique also is extremely effective in healing tendonitis, tendonosis, bursitis, strains and sprains, scar tissue, joint arthropathies, and neuromuscular motor weakness.
In a clinical setting, cold laser technology and injury recall technique has shown a profound capacity to quickly reduce inflammation in both acute and chronic problems, improve range of motion, engage proper proprioception and integrate a balanced locomotive process in movement.
We first perform a thorough kinesiology exam of the lower locomotive system for any soft tissue issue.
The following muscles are evaluated for weakness foot dorsi and plantar flexors, pronators and supinators, knee and hip abductors, adductors, flexors, extensors and rotators, and lumbar back extensors and flexors.
We then would use the cold laser to treat any pelvic and lower extremity muscles that demonstrated a significant motor weakness contributing to this problem. The muscle strength is basically reset neurologically to proper function. We then challenge the micro movement of the joints and correct any fixations with manipulative procedures. Any signi?cant micro or macro trauma to the neuromuscular system in an abnormal change in the proprioception of the joint motion and ligaments and/or the stretch receptors in the muscles.
Even with focused rehabilitation after an injury, many times the soft tissue still sends abnormal information back to the central nervous system (CNS).
This sets you up for reinjury as well as decreased performance in the sport. These hands on approaches works the best before any rehabilitation is conducted because the Cold Laser and IRT dramatically facilitates and balances the integration of injured nerves, muscles, ligaments and joints.
The goal of clinicians in sports medicine is to get athletes out of pain, improve their function, increase flexibility, strength and endurance.
