Sports injuries are all too common among athletes: whether you’re a child or adult, professional or amateur. Ranging from sprains and strains to serious fractures, breaks, and torn ligaments, these injuries are often painful. Unfortunately, traditional medicine tends to manage the discomfort of sports injury through opioid pain medication. Unfortunately, the use of opioids to treat sports injuries can lead to a dangerous cycle of addiction.
In fact, many individuals who become addicted to opioids started using them to manage pain after a sports injury. Opioids are highly addictive drugs that can quickly take hold of a person’s life and lead to devastating consequences. Hands for Life understands that opioid addiction is a serious problem that affects millions of people around the world.
Chiropractic care offers an alternative to treating sports injuries and managing pain without opiates. Chiropractors manipulate the spine and other mechanical disruptions to relieve pain and improve function. By addressing the sports injury, the mechanical damage itself, chiropractors can help patients heal quickly and effectively without the need for prescription pain medication.
Hands for Life offers a holistic approach that treats sports injuries directly—whether you are arriving in the office, fresh off the field or court, with a new injury; still struggling with the pain of an unresolved sports injury; or the demands of a resultant opiate addiction. Hands for Life makes treatment available to persons in the community who might not have the means or traditional insurance coverage generally necessary to access Chiropractic treatment. That is, Hands for Life’s mission is to provide treatment for injured athletes from all Walks of Life.