Improve your Golf Game!

More than 25 million US golfers undergo a weekly health regimen that may surprise you: corrective chiropractic care! Today’s golfers are increasingly recognizing the importance of keeping their spines healthy, not only to better their lives, but to improve their golf game as well.

According to Dr. Tom LaFountain, Director of Chiropractic Services for the PGA Tour, during the 2007 PGA touring year close to:
- 70% of PGA golfers experienced low back pain.
- 20% suffered from neck pain.
- 13% suffered with shoulder, forearm, and wrist pain.
- 72% of PGA golfers experiencing one of these ailments regularly seek chiropractic care.


Other PGA golfers who work with chiropractors include: Jim Furyk, tiger Woods, Davis Love III, Scott McCarron, Vijay Singh, and David Toms. Many LPGA golfers also benefit from chiropractic services.

Corrective Chiropractic has developed programs for golfers to assist their overall spinal health and, ultimately, their golf games. Due to abnormal spinal structure, many avid golfers who take lessons from skilled professionals still find that biomechanically their bodies do not let them move properly.

Similar to the situation for people who wear braces on their teeth, better biomechanics takes persistence, hard work, dedication, and time. After all, how many people do you know who achieved perfectly straight teeth in 3 weeks? In addition to chiropractic adjustments and traction, chiropractic care can help patients increase the range of motion in their pelvis and trunk, align their posture, do rehabilitation exercises, learn proper stretching protocols, work on abdominal strengthening, and reduce inflammation and swelling in their joints.

Save your back while gardening!

According the Canada NewsWire, a study was conducted in 2003 by 500 Chiro-practors in Ontario, Canada, and it was found that a whopping 88% of these doctors report that Yard work and gardening are the most common sources of back and neck pain during the warmer months.

Here some helpful tips before you begin to garden:

•Stretch before you begin: Lightly stretch your hamstrings, thighs, calves, groin, and gluteus (buttock) muscles. Stretch shoulders and wrists as well. This will lower your risk of injury.

•Squat: When lifting, contract your abs, keep your back straight, and bend at your knees. Keep anything that you are lifting as close as you can to your gut and stand tall. Avoid leaning forward or twisting the spine while carrying any load.

•Contracting the lower abdominal muscles is essential to protecting the lower back while being active. Simply suck in the muscles between your belly button and bladder while performing rigorous activities.

•Hydrate yourself and use sunscreen at all times.

•Constantly stretch and take frequent breaks when necessary

•Alternate between activities. Spend 20 minutes doing three different tasks, and then repeat if necessary.

When finishing gardening for the day, stretch afterwards and hydrate yourself.