You & Olympians: Have Pain, Find Relief, Return to Exercise Year-Round
Everyone needs to exercise. Everyone needs to move. Physical activity is for all of us. Is mountain climbing or marathon running necessary? Not at all! Walking is superb. Muscle strengthening is just right. Gardening when the season is suitable is wonderful. No gyms are even required for the physical activity that will keep you feeling good. If a knee or back injury happens – and they happen to the best of us! – your Elgin chiropractor at Connected Chiropractic is ready to return you to moving with gentle, safe spinal distraction manipulation…and knee distraction for the common matter of knee pain!
EXERCISE IN ANY SEASON
A survey done in Finland in 2017 traced the physical activity participation of 18-64 year olds and 65+ year-olds. Researchers found that the 18-64 year olds achieved the recommended guidelines for physical activity – 42% of men and 39% of women – better than the 65+ year olds – 26% men and 20% women. What were the most popular activities people performed throughout that time? Cleaning/maintenance work, walking, and stair climbing. What exercises did they do most consistently all year irrespective of age/gender/season? Muscle-strengthening exercises and workout. Swimming, skiing, gardening, jogging, and stair climbing were more age/gender/season dependent. The researchers finally concluded that there are particular conditioning activities people will do. Proposals for physical activity recommendations must use those to inspire the most physical activity possible. (1) What do you like to do? Connected Chiropractic is confident our Elgin chiropractic patients and their families can find exercises to do any time of year! Heck, even in snow, a good snowball toss can inspire activity!
OLYMPIC EXERCISE
Winter and summer, Olympians move! They’re very much like us though their training may be a bit more on the intense side. Elite athletes like the Olympians cope with pain and depression and keep moving. A study of Olympians from the 1948 to 2018 games revealed that 32.4% report pain today, and 35.9% have functional limitations they connect to their Olympics’ days. Knee (20.6% lasting for a median of 120 days) and lumbar spine (13.1% continuing for 100 days) were the top two injuries Olympians experienced in their training days. Depression was reported by 6.6% of them. (2) Connected Chiropractic shares these Olympians’ stats with our Elgin chiropractic patients letting them know they’re not alone in their pain struggles.
KNEE EXERCISE and SMT WITH COX®
Connected Chiropractic is equipped to help when knee pain and back pain impact you. Gentle Cox® Technic Flexion Distraction and Spinal Manipulation and its distraction adaptation for knees are pain-relieving. Make an appointment, and find out! A few sessions and you’ll be excited to get out and move, walk, garden, build a snowman, and more!
CONTACT Connected Chiropractic
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Luigi Albano on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes how his adaptation of Cox® Technic distraction principles for treating painful knees eases knee pain.
Set up your Elgin chiropractic appointment soon. Join everyone else who comes to Connected Chiropractic with knee and back pain and walks out the door ready to start moving again, gardening again, walking again, rolling up snowballs again with a little extra spring in their step! Get out, and exercise!
