You don’t have to be a professional athlete to benefit from the regular care of a chiropractor. But even if you are just a weekend warrior on the tennis court, softball field, or golf course, you should know that professional athletes make chiropractic treatment a regular part of their training and care. National Football league and Major league Baseball teams have long kept doctors of chiropractic on their medical staffs. And individual athletes as diverse as golfers, tennis players and rodeo riders get regular chiropractic treatment to hone their performances. The U.S. Olympic team keeps chiropractors on staff, as do top-level college teams.

The speciality of a chiropractor is treatment of dysfunction in the muscles, nerves and bones--the items that make up the body’s biomechanical and neuromusculoskeletal systems. Spinal alignment is central to the body’s ability to perform at peak level. The spinal cord runs through the spine. Nerves that control all parts of the body emanate through the vertebrae — the individual bones of the spine. If vertebrae are not lined up properly, they can impede the function of a nerve and the body part it controls.

If professional athletes recognize the advantage chiropractic gives them, think what it might do for your game, whatever it may be.

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