Sports Injury FAQs

Anytime you play sports, you run the risk of a sports injury. Knowing how to handle a musculoskeletal injury will enable you to make a quicker recovery. At Wilke Chiropractic, Geneva, IL, we offer chiropractic sport injury treatment for pain relief and rehabilitation. These FAQs explain more about sports injuries and how chiropractic care can help.

What are some common sports injuries?

Sports injuries vary depending on the sport you play.  Contact sports are more likely to produce musculoskeletal injuries like muscle strains, ligament sprains, fractures, or dislocated joints. Sports like tennis or golf can lead to shoulder or elbow pain due to repetitive motions.  Strains and sprains, muscle overuse, tendinitis and bursitis are some of the most common sports injuries.

What are some symptoms of sports injuries?

Sports injuries can cause acute pain, inflammation, muscle stiffness, weakness and loss of flexibility, or mobility. The sooner you see Dr. Wilke for treatment, the sooner you can get back to enjoying your game.

How does chiropractic care help with sports injuries? 

As most sports injuries are musculoskeletal in nature, a chiropractor is the perfect person to see for treatment, as that’s their specialty.  Dr. Wilke will diagnose your injury and determine its severity in order to outline a plan for treatment.

Chiropractic care makes use of holistic therapies to treat musculoskeletal injuries. This includes adjustments to correct misaligned muscles or joints, myofascial release to ease muscle tension and pain and corrective exercises to strengthen core muscles and restore flexibility and mobility. Chiropractic care treats, not only  your symptoms,  but the source of your pain and symptoms to help you recover from your injury and prevent future injuries from happening.

What’s the benefit of seeing a chiropractor for sports injury treatment?

Chiropractic therapies are all natural, noninvasive and drug-free, so there's no risk of addiction to pain medication. Chiropractic works from the inside out, treating the body as a whole, not just a single injury.

See Dr. Wilke for Sports Injury Treatment

For pain relief of a running injury, basketball injury or other type of sports injury, contact Wilke Chiropractic in Geneva, IL, at (630) 723-8983.