Can chiropractic help athletes.

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If you continue to grow, improve your training, perfect your technique, replace or repair your equipment regularly, ensuring that your intensity and duration does not exceed your body's ability to adapt to the demands of training, that you may add years to your life and life to your years? Research by Schwartzbauer et al showed significant improvements in muscle strength, long jump distance, and capillary counts after 14 weeks of chiropractic care in 21 male college athletes, and research by Brennan and Kokjohn showed that chiropractic adjustments to your thoracic spine significantly increases your polymononuclear neutrophils (PMNs) and monocytes demonstrating that chiropractic adjustments affect your cells involved with immune function? Did you know that Zhang found that after one year of chiropractic care, patients showed significant improvements in your heart rate, more peace, increasing cardiac reserve, and nutrient supply to your heart muscles? Miller et al found that chiropractic adjustments to your cervical and thoracic spine demonstrated a 6.1% increase in V02 max, a 3.9% increase in overall work, and 2.6% increase in peak heart rate and peak systolic blood pressure. Research by Kessinger showed that after 2 weeks of upper cervical adjustments patients demonstrated significant improvements in pulmonary lung function (6% Forced Vital Capacity). Are you aware of the research by Goff, McConnell, & Paine that showed chiropractic adjustments facilitated a considerable decrease in your muscle tension? What separates Usain Bolt, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers, Jessie Owens, and Michael Jordan from the pack? Did you know that today, according to the Professional Football Chiropractic Society, 31 out of 32 NFL teams have at least one dedicated chiropractor for their players? Chiropractic Economics April 18, 2011 Vol 57 No 6Is faster better? Speed of thought and reaction? Do you have self control and discipline? The ability to think faster and more efficiently than your opponent, reacting decisively and logically at the proper time? Did you know that research by Kessinger and Boneva showed significant improvements in your attention/mental control, memory, reasoning/calculation, spatial processing, reaction time, information processing speed, information processing accuracy, general cognitive functioning, and general cognitive proficiency? Did you know that Dr. Carrick conducted a double blind study involving 500 subjects involved in a post doctoral neurology program demonstrating that upper cervical chiropractic adjustments activates specific neurological pathways associated with your cortical hemisphericity and may not be limited to your musculoskeletal or neuromuscular conditions? Did you know that Kessinger found that after 6 weeks of receiving upper cervical chiropractic adjustments showed significant improvements in your visual acuity demonstrating that vision changes do occur following upper cervical adjustments? Did you know that Unger showed that chiropractic SOT pelvic blocking resulted in a significant difference in your pectoralis major, clavicular anterior deltoid, latissimus dorsi, psoas, tensor fasciae latae, adductors, and gluteus medius muscles, demonstrating that chiropractic SOT pelvic blocking procedure produced a general increase in your muscle strength?