Staying active is a great way to improve your health, lose weight, and maintain our endurance. However, engaging in sports activities also presents a real risk of suffering a variety of different injuries. Among them are musculoskeletal injuries resulting from repetitive motion, trauma, poor adherence to gear requirements, and failure to stretch before engaging in athletic activity. As with any injury impacting these systems, jaw pain and TMJ complications can result. At JawMatrix, we provide comprehensive treatments for musculoskeletal injuries through a unique chiropractic approach.
How JawMatrix treats musculoskeletal sports-related injuries
Chiropractic care is essential in recovering from sports injuries that impact our musculoskeletal system. In addition to helping you recover from the injury effectively, our team’s care will get you back to your favorite activities more quickly. The first symptoms you’ll likely notice from these injuries include swelling and pain. However, if not treated effectively, you may discover that tenderness, stiffness, and weakness in the affected areas linger. When left untreated, these injuries can result in symptoms that appear while at rest or only while actively playing.
Common sports injuries include:
- Knee injuries
- Elbow injuries
- Fractures
- Dislocated Joints
- Tendonitis
- Other Connective Tissue-Related Concerns
It’s common knowledge that these injuries can impact our ability to participate in sports and limit us in other ways. Less common is the knowledge that having our spine out of alignment can aggravate temporomandibular joint disorder and jaw pain. Musculoskeletal injuries can impact these conditions by altering our posture and misaligning our spine.
When our heads are canted forward from poor posture or spinal misalignment, additional strain is placed on the neck and jaw muscles. This, in turn, can lead to muscle fatigue in these areas, popping in the jaw, and even problems with opening our mouths properly. These symptoms are generally caused by the alteration in our alignment, shifting the condyles of our jaw. At this point, our jaw fits into the joint, further into their sockets.
At JawMatrix, we can help correct these spinal misalignments. By restoring posture and stability to address musculoskeletal injuries, we can help your body recover from these injuries and shift your body back into the proper position and help alleviate any jaw pain symptoms and TMD.
We highly encourage the use of chiropractic care as it brings many benefits. These benefits include:
- Targets Joints – When the musculoskeletal injury directly impacts the joints, chiropractic adjustments are highly effective in treating the injury and its symptoms.
- Full-Body Pain Relief – Our musculoskeletal system is complex, and injuries involving it can impact our body in unexpected ways. Chiropractic care is effective at treating these concerns wherever they appear.
- Anti-inflammatory – Inflammation is a common source of pain from musculoskeletal injuries. Areas that are irritated from injury, or being misaligned, often become inflamed in response to these stressors. Relieving them reduces inflammation and the associated pain with it.
- Longlasting Benefits – Chiropractic is a treatment approach that seeks long-term relief from conditions by reversing damage and bringing the body back into alignment. As a result, the benefits last longer, especially with maintenance treatments.
Choose JawMatrix for musculoskeletal therapy and jaw pain relief
Contact us today if you’ve experienced a sports-related injury that has left you with musculoskeletal concerns. We’ll bring you in for a consultation and discuss your symptoms. Together we’ll develop a treatment plan that will effectively address your concerns and help get you back to your favorite activities quickly.