Is back discomfort hindering you from enjoying a complete round on the links? With the one sided movement in the golf swing, virtually every golfer at some period undergoes some form of injury or pain: some acute and others chronic. Doctors of Chiropractic are the ideal selection to assess, educate, care for, condition and train golfers.

Folsom, California golf player Gil VanAttenhoven tells how he injured his back while playing golf and was not able to complete the round due to difficulty walking. Although uneasy at first, a couple of his friends recommended he go to Barger Chiropractic of Folsom and after 4 chiropractic treatments, he was back on the golf course doing what he likes so much.

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The golf swing requires the torso to turn, bend laterally and extend. This needs flexibility that is specific to golf players. Doctors of Chiropractic have comprehensive education in the bio-mechanics of human movement and can help you in determining the cause of your complaint or condition, then treat it.

The doctor of chiropractor's job is not to show you the golf swing, but to identify the bio-mechanical movement responsible for a repetitive strain injury. Additional injury is avoided by isolating and re-routing a improper swing. This can initially be analyzed in the office setting for obvious issues.

Posture plays an vital part, with static posture responsible for general alignment before the swing begins. A measure of a golfer's dynamic postural fitness and strength is the ability to maintain proper posture during the golf swing.

Good golf posture requires proper positioning of both the cervical spine and low-back, with maintaining of the forward curvatures (lordosis). These forward neck and back curves provide mechanical leverage for power and facilitate your ability to turn your body. Poor golf posture reduces these curves, restricting spinal rotation. This leads to golfers to over-swing, resulting in soft tissue injuries.

With the above in mind, the primary purpose for pelvic and torso rotation in the back-swing is to acquire a body position that allows for useful club head delivery at ball impact. The 3 primary reasons for you to adopt a short back-swing that reduces spinal rotation are:

1. More mastery of the golf club and club head throughout the swing, which translates into better control of the golf ball.
2. Short back swings acquire equal club-head speed at ball impact as long back-swings, according to research by Seaman in his article “Back pain in golfers:etiology and prevention.”
3. Torsional stress in the lumbar spine is minimized with a short back-swing.

There are several ways of care that chiropractic doctors can provide golfers, including preventive swing proposals, spinal alignments, rehabilitation exercises and non-drug anti-inflammatory nutrition. Spinal alignments are effective in reducing pain and improving spinal function.

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