Golf isn’t an easy sport. For the enthusiasts that play often, this isn’t shocking news. Each round of golf requires physical and mental strength, and without proper care of your spine, it can easily take a toll on your body, eventually leaving you with more bogey putts than birdie putts.
Before we dive into how you can improve your golf game with chiropractic care, it’s essential to understand that chiropractic treatment won’t improve your ability to putt. You’re on your own for that one. However, choosing chiropractic care to support your golf game will prevent injury and increase performance as well. So, keep reading to learn how Dr. Andrea can help you improve your golf game with chiropractic care.
Golf isn’t an easy sport. For the enthusiasts that play often, this isn’t shocking news. Each round of golf requires physical and mental strength, and without proper care of your spine, it can easily take a toll on your body, eventually leaving you with more bogey putts than birdie putts.
Before we dive into how you can improve your golf game with chiropractic care, it’s essential to understand that chiropractic treatment won’t improve your ability to putt. You’re on your own for that one. However, choosing chiropractic care to support your golf game will prevent injury and increase performance as well. So, keep reading to learn how Dr. Andrea can help you improve your golf game with chiropractic care.
Chiropractic Care Can Boost Your Golf Game
Chiropractors are trained to treat the entire neuromusculoskeletal system. When it comes to your golf game, this chiropractic knowledge works to ensure that a chiropractor can reduce the amount of stress that is placed on golfers’ bodies.
Chiropractic care can help you perfect your golf swing.
When you swing a club, your lower back undergoes stress in the process. Yet swinging a golf club can lead to more than just back pain; it can also potentially lead to pain or range of motion issues in your shoulders, elbows, knees, or wrists. When you suffer from pain or discomfort while playing golf, your swing and thus score will be affected.
Being treated by a chiropractor ensure that your back, hips, knees, and other joints stay well-aligned so that you are able to get a good golf swing.
Benefits of Chiropractic Care and Your Golf Game
- With the help of chiropractic care, you will be able to swing your club more efficiently.
- Golfers who seek help from a Chiropractor find that they have less joint pain when walking around the golf course.
- Chiropractic care ensures you do not enter any golf game with any spinal misalignments that increase the risk of injury you have when playing golf.
- Adjustments completed by a chiropractor ensure you have good posture, which will make sure you are able to utilize your body in an optimal way so that you do not overburden certain muscles or joints causing you to strain or injure yourself.
So, You Have a Golf Injury…
Okay, so you didn’t see a chiropractor before you played, and you injured yourself. Did you know that chiropractic care can help you recover from injuries faster?
Spine Realignment After Injury
If you do not warm-up or stretch properly, there is a chance that you will suffer a spinal injury while swinging. If this has happened to you, a spinal realignment can reduce your recovery time and get you back on the golf course as soon as possible.
Are Pinched Nerves Affecting Your Golf Game?
According to the Mayo Clinic, a pinched nerve occurs when too much pressure is applied to a nerve by surrounding tissues, such as bones, cartilage, muscles, or tendons. Pinched nerves are more likely to occur when you are repeating the same movements over and over again, such as when swinging a golf club. Dr. Andrea is able to adjust the bones that are placing pressure on an affected nerve in order to relieve your pain.
Does “Golfers Elbow” Get You Down?
Golfers elbow is a condition that causes the tendons in your forearm muscles to attach to the bony bump on the inside of your elbow, sending pain from your forearm to your wrist. This pain doesn’t have to keep you away from the golf course. Dr. Andrea can check the affected joint and provide a treatment plan that can help restore mobility.
Golf Tips from Dr. Andrea
- If you have an option, avoid wearing metal spikes when you play. Metal spikes have the potential to get stuck in the ground during your swing leading to serious knee or back injuries.
- Stay hydrated when on the golf course. When you are out on the course, it is easy to get dehydrated, but not drinking enough can mean you are more likely to strain a muscle.
- Should you choose to walk the golf course, it is in your best interest to pull your bag. When you carry a heavy golf bag from hole to hole, you are more likely to suffer from disc issues or irritate your nerves.
- Even on days, you are not on the course, aim for adding 20 – 30 minutes of a movement goal to your daily routine. Even choosing just walking for 20 – 30 minutes daily will mean that your body is maintaining an optimum level of health, allowing it to compete at its best.
Golf is a game of repetitive motions, and through those motions are ample opportunities to injure yourself. For a proper golf swing, you need unrestricted joint motion in the spine and pelvis. You could essentially consider your body when swinging a golf club like a spinning top. The base is stationary, and your spine allows you to spin the top half of your body without ever losing your balance.
Many people wait until they injure themselves and are hurting to make an appointment, but you don’t have to do that. Dr. Andrea can help you ensure your body stays at the top of its game with proper adjustments.
If you have any questions about how chiropractic care can improve your golf game or prevent injury, feel free to contact our office! We would love to help you.
Just remember, when you move better, you swing better. Click here to schedule an appointment with Dr. Andrea today!
