Sports Chiropractic: Guidelines to Prevent Sports-Related Injuries.

Before beginning an exercise program or training for an athletic event, check with your sports chiropractic doctor for advice on ways to prevent sports-related injuries. Here are a few guidelines to consider:

McKim Chiropractic Boise, ID is a health care center vital to the injured athlete with Sports Chiropractic Boise ID concern deliberate for your particular problems.

• Ask for a complete chiropractic examination: This may include a review of your medical history, a heart and lung examination, and/or functional/biomechanical screening.
• Use proper attire and equipment: Make sure your equipment (helmet, gloves, pads, mouth guard, etc.) fits properly. Wear quality shoes designed for your sport or foot type.
• Training and playing smart: Begin slowly and gradually increase the time and intensity of your workouts to avoid tendinitis and stress fractures; avoid heat or cold-related stresses; drink plenty of water before, during, and after practice or competition.
• Correct Training: Address all aspects of fitness, muscle strength, endurance, cardiovascular fitness, and flexibility; a minimum of two times per week to see improvement in aerobic or anaerobic activity; and start a pre-season conditioning program six weeks prior to the start of your sports season.
• Warm-up and stretching: Prepares the body for performance, decreases the potential for soft tissue injury, and helps reduce delayed onset muscle soreness; should consist of 15 minutes of sub-maximal sports-specific exercise (increases the body's heart rate, body and muscle temperature, and muscle elasticity). Stretching prepares your muscles for activity and prevents injuries from tight soft tissue structures; should be slow and sustained; no bouncing or jerking.
• First aid treatment for injuries (RICE)
  
  
  • R-est — reduce stress to the injured area.
  • I-ce — ice inured area 20 minutes four times per day.
  • C-ompression — Apply an elastic bandage to the injured area.
  • E-levation — Raise the injured area above the level of the heart to decrease blood flow.
• Prevention of re-injury: Rehabilitate your injury completely before gradually returning to activity; protect the injured area with special equipment or brace.

Remember: Acute injuries are easier to treat than chronic (long standing) ones. If you have pain that returns or gets worse stop training, tell your coach and seek advice!

At McKim Chiropractic you can receive sports chiropractic treatment to help relieve your pain from sports-related injuries! Our doctors of chiropractic can provide skilled chiropractic adjustments, kinesiotaping, or intense directed massage. For more information about sports chiropractic treatment and to schedule an appointment, call us today or go to http://www.mckimchiropractic.com/. Our licensed and certified staff is committed to helping the sports enthusiasts of Boise, ID and Nampa, ID get back in the game!

Chiropractors: Daily Disciplines for Life!

What's in your medicine cabinet? It may be like so many other homes today, filled with a variety of pill bottles. It seems everyone is taking all kinds of pills day after day. Powerful synthetic drugs come home with the baby from the hospital and become part of the diet from then on. As part of their education, chiropractors study the side effects—both the good and the not so good--of the many types of drugs on the market. They are then in a position to encourage their patients to look at the various side effects of any drugs they may be putting in their bodies.

McKim Chiropractic is a health care profession treat with Chiropractic Services designed for your particular problems. Meet expert Chiropractors Boise ID for careful treatment.

A common question presented to chiropractors is, "Could we get through life with just chiropractic adjustments, natural foods and nutrition, proper exercise, rest and a balanced spiritual life (for the stress that is all around us)?" In many cases, the answer to this question may be a resounding "yes!" Because our bodies are in a constant state of change, changes in your daily disciplines will help this body change be for the better every day.

Daily Disciplines for Life:

1. Be as subluxation free as possible. It is important to get checked and adjusted on a regular basis for your lifetime. This will ensure that your nerve system functions at its optimal level.
2. Look at the food you eat. Is it as organic as possible, or it processed full of chemicals and additives? Is there too much fat, salt and sugar in your diet? Take a look at the vitamin and mineral content of the food you are eating and stick to the foods that contain these necessary nutrients.
3. Find the right amount of sleep you need for your body. Your innate intelligence repairs, heals, and regenerates tissue cells, but only with proper rest.
4. Look at your spiritual life. Make time to study, pray and worship/meditate to help achieve inner peace.

Remember: Like a plan of regular savings, a program of consistent chiropractic care can pay huge dividends. Invest in your health by continuing to follow your chiropractor's instructions for the greatest improvement and optimum health.

Call our chiropractors at the McKim Chiropractic today or go to http://www.mckimchiropractic.com for more information about our chiropractic services and to schedule an appointment. Our licensed and certified staff is committed to helping the residents of Boise, ID and Nampa, ID achieve health wholeness!