Sports Chiropractic

Acute care is for pain that has recently developed as a result of a specific injury. Most athletes will receive acute care because they can pinpoint when the injury occurred and quickly realize something is wrong. For athletes, it is critical for the body to be operating at peak performance, which makes them seek out treatment immediately before the injury affects performance or prevents playing their sport(s). Acute care treatment almost always includes icing the area and resting it, along with chiropractic adjustments, exercises or treatments deemed necessary by your provider.

Ongoing care is frequently seen in athletes or “weekend warriors” who are trying to maintain peak performance, but aren’t as pressed to get back into action as athletes seeking acute care. These are often maintenance programs that occur on a regular schedule. Regular appointments serve to keep the body in proper alignment and ensure that joints do not lock up. Ongoing care treatments include adjustments, exercises and other treatments prescribed by your provider.

This is a situation where an old untreated/mistreated injury flares up years or even decades later. Your provider will take a detailed history of the injury, including how it happened, prior care received, what has been done to manage it, and how much use the area receives now. Only after your history has been taken and an examination performed will your Modern Movement Medicine provider develop an individualized treatment plan. Our short-term goal in these situations is to relieve the pain as quickly as possible. The long-term goal is to correct the problem at its root cause. Depending on the injury and its severity, treatment will follow the same patterns as acute and ongoing care: ice, rest, adjustments, exercises, and treatments.