Most Common Injuries
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- Hand and Wrist Injuries: Attach a long lever to a small joint and swiftly hit a ball - What could go wrong? Anything from overuse strains to stiff joints.
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- Elbow Tendonitis: Firmly gripping a racquet places stress on the bony bumps where your wrist and forearm muscles attach to your elbow. This is often a site of tendinitis within pickleball players.
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- Knee Pain: Running and pivoting places tremendous torque on your knees. This stress can damage ligaments and irritate cartilage.
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- Back Pain: Repetitive bending forward and quickly rotating can stress your spine’s soft tissue and joints. Injuries to muscles, ligaments, and discs are common.
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- Rotator Cuff Problems: Repeatedly raising your arm can pinch sensitive tendons and bursa. Unchecked, small irritations can transition to more significant tears over time.
Tips: Consider the following injury-prevention tips.
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- Stretch and get some blood flowing with brisk 10-minute walk before hitting the court.
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- Choose shoes with proper arch supports, or consider insoles or orthotics.
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- Warm-up before the match with the exercise in this flyer.
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- Make sure you are well hydrated before, during, and after your match. Replace your fluids, whether you feel thirsty or not.
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- Learn and practice proper pickleball techniques, including your grip, swing, and footwork.
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- Some mild soreness is acceptable, but don’t hesitate to stop in the middle of a match if you experience more significant or sharp pain
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LITORA PARTURIENT
Toe Walks
Towel Wrings
High Knees
Side Lunges
- Office Treatments: These are some of the treatments that we offer in our clinic, see more at durhamchiros.com
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- Chiropractic Adjustments
Spinal Adjustments (aka joint manipulations) have been shown to be a safe and effective treatment option for patients with multiple types of pain. Extremity adjustments to the arms and legs can also be beneficial in managing pain from arthritis, gait abnormalities, and joint stiffness.
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- Manual Therapy
Soft tissue manual therapies help to restore the mobility of fascia (the connective tissue around muscles), increase blood flow, and reduce pain. Manual therapy may be used in your treatment of muscle strains, ligament sprains, and adhesions of the tissue.
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- Shockwave Therapy
Shockwave (aka EPAT) uses a unique set of pressure waves focused at the injury site to stimulate the tissue metabolism, enhance blood circulation, and accelerate healing.
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- Dry Needling
Dry needling works by directly stimulating the painful tissue, reducing tension/pain by increasing blood flow to an area and stimulating the release of endorphins, which occur naturally in our body to help manage pain.
