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Boost Your Fitness Journey With Chiropractic Care

  • By The Mladenoff Clinic of Arizona Team
  • •
  • 18 Jun, 2024

How Regular Chiropractic Care Can Improve Your Gym & Sports Performance While Preventing Injuries

Regular chiropractic care can greatly enhance your gym performance by preventing injury. Many athletes and gym enthusiasts may overlook the importance of chiropractic care. This may be to your detriment. Chiropractic is well known to provide a range of benefits that can help you reach your fitness goals.
Chiropractic care is a natural, non-invasive form of healthcare that focuses on the relationship between the spine and nervous system. By realigning the spine and joints, chiropractors can improve the body’s ability to function well. By reducing pain and inflammation and increasing mobility. This is especially important for those who engage in physical activity and for those who are taking their first fitness steps.

Chiropractic Care Can Offer a Handful of Helpful Benefits

Chiropractic care can offer a variety of helpful benefits for those looking to enhance their gym performance, including:

Balancing Body Movement: Chiropractic care can help improve symmetry in movement. Reducing the risk of uneven wear and tear on muscles and joints and promoting injury prevention by enhancing your neuromuscular engram over time.

Preventing Injury: By improving movement coordination, chiropractic care can help reduce the likelihood of injury during physical activity.

Aiding Recovery: Chiropractic adjustments can reduce inflammation and aid in recovery, allowing gym-goers to stay motivated and consistent.

Promoting Consistency: Regular chiropractic care can help the body recover quickly from physical stress, allowing gym-goers to maintain their workout schedule.

Improving Efficiency: Chiropractic care can optimise range of motion and posture, allowing for more efficient workouts. It is important for proper muscle firing patterns and less compensations in the body.

One of the most significant benefits of chiropractic care is increased flexibility and range of motion. With regular adjustments, you can experience a more supple muscular system and avoid strains and sprains. A chiropractor can also help identify areas of soreness in your body. Developing a customised exercise plan can help you improve these areas and prevent future injuries.

Ways to Improve Sports Performance With Chiropractic Care

A study in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics showed that spinal manipulation therapy, a common chiropractic treatment, reduces cytokine levels in the blood immediately after the session. Cytokines play a role in the body’s inflammatory response, and lower cytokine levels indicate lower inflammation levels. Chronic inflammation can limit the amount of time athletes can train or compete. Lowering inflammation is a significant benefit all athletes can benefit from in their sports performance.


Muscle strength is crucial for success in sports. Whether it’s the ability to withstand a tackle in football, score a goal in soccer, or finish first in a race, muscle strength is a key factor. A study published in Frontiers in Neurology found that chiropractic care may increase lower leg muscle strength by making muscle fibres more responsive. While the study focused on the use of chiropractic care for stroke patients, its findings can also be applied to sports medicine.

How The Mladenoff Clinic of Arizona Can Help

Regardless of the type of sport you engage in, whether for competition, fitness, or weight loss, chiropractic care can enhance your performance.

At the Mladenoff Clinic of Arizona, Dr. Diana focuses on the spine, muscles, and nerves to provide pain relief to help you live life to the fullest. Our aim is to effectively relieve your symptoms with minimal visits, allowing you to quickly get back to your active lifestyle.

The Mladenoff Clinic of Arizona is a wellness clinic located in the Phoenix region of Arizona. We are focused on our patient’s healthcare by providing the highest standards of Chiropractic musculo-skeletal care and more.

Chiropractic care is often thought of as a solution for injuries, but regular chiropractic visits can actually help prevent injuries. By ensuring the proper functioning of the spine and musculoskeletal system, chiropractic care can improve your performance and reduce the risk of injury in any physical activity. If you are starting to exercise, looking to be more active, or trying to reach a specific sports goal, chiropractic can benefit you. Whether it’s improving performance, avoiding injuries, treating injuries, or enhancing overall musculoskeletal health, Dr. D is here for you. 

In addition to treating back and joint pain, chiropractic care can also help relieve stress. Regular chiropractic adjustments, even when you’re not experiencing pain, can help improve your emotional well-being and reduce stress levels. 

If you have a question, feel free to email, text or call the clinic at 1 (602) 524-0222. When it comes to your spine or joints, there is no such thing as a silly question. We are here to help! Wellness awaits you. 

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