Fueling Your Body for Injury Prevention: Nutritional Tips to Keep You Going Strong
Playing sports is fun but research shows that most athletes incur one injury throughout their careers.
When injury occurs, it usually results in more than 7 days of absence from competition or training.
The most common areas injured are
- head and neck
- upper and lower limbs
The most common tissue types injured are
- superficial tissues and skin
- ligaments and joint capsules
Nutrition has significant implications for injury prevention and we usually focus on the following
- amino acid and protein intake (increasing intake to 2.3g per Kg a day is known to reduce muscle loss in states of negative energy balance)
- antioxidants - Vitamin C and e
- creatine -improves strength ,increasing lean muscle mass and helps muscles recover
- omega 3 -preventing muscle loss after 4 weeks of consumption of 3900mg fish oil daily.
Why do we focus on these?
They have great therapeutic roles in preventing muscle loss and anabolic resistance AS WELL as promoting injury healing.
If you want more information about how we can help . Please call Health Wise Chiropractic 03 9467 7889 or book online to see one of our Chiropractors in Sunbury or Melton/Strathtulloh Today!
Chiropractic has moved online. We offer our online programs -STAND CORRECTED- To help you through the day. They contain health advice for your conditions, nutritional advice and exercises for you to do at home or at the workplace to help you achieve your health goals. We understand that coming to the Chiropractic clinic maybe costly and time consuming. This way if you cant make it into the chiropractic office, you can do any of our 20+ online health programs at your leisure.
Enjoy and we hope they spark a little bit of joy and help you achieve your health goals. Each program contains - Information about the conditions - things to do and things to avoid - nutrition advice - all the stretches that are needed to help The following conditions are now available for online sessions
migraine
cervicogenic headaches
cervical facet neck pain
tension headaches
cervical radiculopathy (pins and needles in the arm originating from the neck)
shoulder impingement relief
thoracic outlet syndrome
frozen shoulder
rotator cuff
chronic lumbar (Low Back) disc pain
acute Lumbar(low back) disc pain
Lumbar facet pain
sciatica and piriformis syndrome
meniscus (knee pain)
Plantar fasciitis (Foot Pain)
Shin Splints
Tennis Elbow/Golfers elbow
Carpal tunnel Syndrome
Upper Crossed Syndrome( Poor Posture)
Lower Crossed Syndrome ( Poor Posture)
Dizziness-Vertigo
Arthritis
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TMJ (Jaw Pain)
Reference
Nutrients. 2022 Jan; 14(1): 53. Published online 2021 Dec 23. doi: 10.3390/nu14010053 PMCID: PMC8746600 PMID: 35010929