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I'm a chiropractor up in Massachusetts and happen to meet the official team chiropractor of the New England Patriots this past spring. He's been the team chiropractor for about 20yrs but what he shared with me was nice to hear. He said that he gives chiropractic care before each game to about 45 players, several coaches, Belechick, and Kraft the owner.... I can tell ya thats alot of work! (they are also treated in his office midweek during the season). He mentioned that its very strongly encouraged by the organization (i.e. not really optional)...... Just hoping Saban has this going on for his players!?
 
The modalaties given by Chiropractors are probably given by the teams Therapists. I'm sure they have Chiropractors they use regularly for manipulations.
 
I played semi-pro for 3 years in the early 90's, and we had a chiroquackter "adjust" players before the game.......we were the only team to get beat by the Moscow Bears.:goof:
 
Well the Pat's love this guy, they pay him well...plenty of chirpractors say they would treat the players for free, but they like the work he does. Just something interesting a Fin's fan might want to know.... No, not looking for a job with them, alot of athlete's are arrogant ****y pricks anyways, NFL or semi-pro.... don't need to deal with that, I'm fine being just a fan.
 
I thought about every Athletic trainer in the world writes off chiropractic medicene. I thought that trainers pretty much all went with the muscle and soft tissue manipulation was the best way. When I was in college, pretty much all the health/physical/bio professors told me chiro's were borderline bad for you. This really suprises me.
 
If I remember right, I think Emmit Smith might have had his own personal chiropractor and I believe Tiger Wood's does as well. I know it's helped me tremendously. I heard Robert Parrish formerly of the Boston Celtics credited his chiropractor for his long career. Granted there are some chiropractors who I think are an embarrassment to the profession there are some great one's. I know an alumnus from my school was an official chiropractor for the U.S. Olympic team in the late 90's. Soft tissue manipulation is great and certainly needed, but you can only get so far with a patient unless you address joint dysfunction as well.
 
I think chiropractic is good for the kinds of bodily changes athletes sustain during practices and games, i.e., getting thrown down and landing on your pelvis. The more chronic bodily issues (scoliotic patterns, for example) are better dealt with through soft tissue manipulation.

In other words, once the dysfunctional bodily pattern has been in place a while, the soft tissue imbalances maintain it and therefore need to be addressed, whereas if you can get to the problem quickly (right after a game or practice), the bone manipulation done by chiropractors is probably all you need. One thing that would be good for pro football players is this kind of treatment:

http://www.ncrdoctors.com/

Do THAT after a concussion. Steve Young could use a few of those treatments.
 
From what I know, of the 32 NFL teams, approx. 27 have a chiropractor either in an official status or as a consult. Chiropractic care is pretty much mandated by the team which comes from Belechick. Romeo Crennel got a team chiropractor for the Brown's and informed him that he wanted him traveling with the team for road games as well. The Graston Technique has been used by Dr. Miller (team chiro) and helped get rid of Willie McGinest and Corey Dillon's chronic hamstring problems which have troubled them the past few years. I'm sure it could help Zach Thomas hamstring and groin troubles!
 
I've going to chiropractors for 22 years, all of whom had other specialties (applied kinesiology, acupuncture, etc) . In fact, I've never visited a medical doctor in my life. I've never taken an antibiotic. No prescription medications. Luckily I've never broken a bone or needed surgery on anything.

I'm not saying conventional doctors, etc. are bad or anything. Everything has its place. I just know that the holistic way of allowing the body to heal itself has worked for my family and I for over two decades.

If the Dolphins are utilizing the kinds of people I've gone to my whole life, they're better for it.
 
NLude33 said:
When I was in college, pretty much all the health/physical/bio professors told me chiro's were borderline bad for you. This really suprises me.
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Sadly, this DOESN'T suprise me. I've heard this stuff my whole life.

It's funny, a lot of this stuff (like Chiropractic) is termed "new age". Yet the Chinese have been practicing it for over 5000 years.
 
Finfan53 said:
From what I know, of the 32 NFL teams, approx. 27 have a chiropractor either in an official status or as a consult. Chiropractic care is pretty much mandated by the team which comes from Belechick. Romeo Crennel got a team chiropractor for the Brown's and informed him that he wanted him traveling with the team for road games as well. The Graston Technique has been used by Dr. Miller (team chiro) and helped get rid of Willie McGinest and Corey Dillon's chronic hamstring problems which have troubled them the past few years. I'm sure it could help Zach Thomas hamstring and groin troubles!
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Are you familiar with the notion that hamstring length is increased by increasing the length of the sub-occipitals? Are you talking about the Grostic Technique in which the atlas is adjusted?
 
Muck said:
Sadly, this DOESN'T suprise me. I've heard this stuff my whole life.

It's funny, a lot of this stuff (like Chiropractic) is termed "new age". Yet the Chinese have been practicing it for over 5000 years.
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Very true, regular doctors saw it as a threat..
 
Quality chiropractic care can be a nfl players best friend. I really hope Sabin utilizes this resource. Appied kiniseology can stream line myofascial treatments to get players back on the field.. anyway, good post.
 
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