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Baseball has remained America’s favorite pastime, going as far back as the 19th century. Many of us spend countless hours playing softball as kids in school or with our friends.
As we get older, a few go on to play baseball in the major or minor leagues, while many others continue to play softball or baseball with our co-workers, neighbors, and friends as a way to stay both active and social. This is very beneficial to both our mental and physical health, but there are always risks, including injury.
Despite our best efforts, doing all the proper stretches, warm-ups, warm-downs, and wearing all the right equipment, we can still find ourselves with an injury. If we have past injuries, sports-related or not, they can also be aggravated. While chiropractic care is an option, what can the Graston Technique® do specifically for those suffering sports-related injuries?
What Is the Graston Technique® for Athletes?
In a way, the Graston Technique® was always for athletes, as it was developed as a result of a sports injury. The technique’s namesake, David Graston, developed the technique out of frustration with his slow recovery from a sports injury. This led to the creation of specialized tools used to perform a specific, specialized, “scraping” type movement over the affected area that improves mobility when performed by a trained practitioner.
What Does Athletic Scraping Do?
For centuries, traditional Chinese medicine incorporated techniques designed to stimulate blood flow to areas of the body that needed healing to expedite the recovery process. This varies from acupuncture, which stimulates the nerve endings.
The tools designed to perform the “scraping” movement with the Graston Technique® not only stimulate blood flow, but they break up the adhesions built up deep under your skin that affect the injured soft tissues, which could be on your muscles, tendons, and ligaments. By doing so, your mobility in the affected area will increase sooner and with less pain as the restrictive adhesions will be broken up and absorbed back into your body.
The Graston Technique® has been considered so effective by sports professionals that MLB, NBA, and NFL teams utilize it with their players to speed up and improve recovery. Baseball pitchers often use the Graston Technique® to help improve the range of motion in their shoulders.
Athletes Make an Appointment Today
The Graston Technique® can be a life-changing experience for athletes, addressing chronic pain due to overuse injuries and other adjacent sports-related injuries. That said, Graston® can help manage pain for a wide range of people regardless of their involvement in athletics.
For more than 35 years, East Bay Chiropractic Wellness P.C. has been providing a wide range of chiropractic services, including the Graston Technique®, to best fit your needs. We can work with you on pain management and restoring the range of motion through massage, stretching exercises, spinal adjustments, and more. Schedule your appointment today and let us help you find the best holistic treatment for your particular needs.
