Is back pain keeping you from enjoying a complete round on the golf course? With the one sided movement in the golf swing, virtually every golfer at some time undergoes some form of injury or pain: some acute and others chronic. Chiropractors are the best selection to assess, teach, care for, condition and train golfers.
Folsom, California golf player Gil VanAttenhoven states how he hurt his back while playing golf and was unable to complete the round due to difficulty walking. Although apprehensive at first, two of his friends suggested he see Barger Chiropractic of Folsom and after 4 chiropractic treatments, he was back on the golf course doing what he enjoys.
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The golf swing demands the spine to turn, bend laterally and extend. This requires flexibility that is specific to golfers. Chiropractors have comprehensive training in the bio-mechanics of human movement and will help you in identifying the cause of your complaint or condition, then treat it.
The chiropractor’s job is not to show you the golf swing, but to identify the bio-mechanical movement causing a repetitive strain injury. Additional injury is avoided by confining and re-routing a improper swing. This can initially be explored in the office setting for obvious issues.
Posture plays an vital part, with static posture responsible for general alignment before the swing starts. A measure of a golfer’s dynamic postural fitness and strength is the ability to maintain proper posture during the golf swing.
Good golf posture demands proper positioning of both the neck and lumbar spine, with maintaining of the forward curvatures (lordosis). These forward neck and back curves allow mechanical leverage for strength and allow your ability to turn your torso. Poor golf posture collapses these curves, restricting spinal rotation. This causes golfers to over-swing, resulting in soft tissue injuries.
With the above in mind, the primary reason for pelvic and spinal rotation in the back-swing is to achieve a body position that permits useful club head delivery at ball impact. The 3 main reasons for you to incorporate a short back-swing that decreases spinal rotation are:
1. More control of the golf club and club head throughout the swing, which transforms into improved control of the golf ball.
2. Short back swings achieve equal club-head speed at ball impact as long back-swings, according to research by Seaman in his article “Back pain in golfers:etiology and prevention.”
3. Torsional stress in the low-back is reduced with a short back-swing.
There are numerous ways of care that chiropractors can provide golfers, including preventive swing advice, spinal alignments, rehabilitation exercises and non-pharmaceutical anti-inflammatory nutrition. Spinal alignments are effective in reducing pain and improving spinal function.
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