The Wake Plan 4 – Introducing Chiropractic
It can be fun watching the eye watering carnage out on the lakes, hearing the almighty ‘slap’ of a trick gone badly wrong, but not quite so funny when you’re on the receiving end of it ! Wakeboarding is high impact. At some stage or another, you’re bound to experience whiplash, front edges, back edges, hitting rails and generally beating yourself up a bit. However, all these continued muscle strains and impacts place a huge demand on your spine and that can lead to problems other than muscular discomfort.
Photo © James Mckeown
The spine is the main vehicle for the central nervous system, carrying all the brain’s messages to every part of your body. Any disruption to this nerve ‘housing’ caused by spinal misalignments from impacts, jolts or nasty twists, can pinch nerves and prevent all the nerve impulses reaching their destinations. As you can’t feel most of your internal organs (unlike a sore knee for example) a problem with impaired nerves may go unnoticed for years as the effects of reduced nerve stimulus take hold and only go noticed when adverse health problems occur.
The role of chiropractic treatment is to realign the spine, leaving the nerves free to do their work effectively and unhindered. If your wakeboarding regularly beats you up, then regular adjustments with a chiropractor are invaluable.
“Learning new tricks on a wakeboard will inevitably require more from you physically and the easiest way to keep up with your progression is to stay in shape and do what you can to prevent injuries.
Injuries can be treated if not fully prevented with regular visits to a chiropractor to improve abnormal mechanics and provide a proper exercise regime. Biomechanical alignment is essential in gaining optimal control of the board while wakeboarding.” Dr. Joe-James Tilley chiropractor Esher Chiropractic and Wakeboarder
Wakeboarding is brutal. Whilst it will give you lots of fun and pleasure, your body will ultimately pay the price for all the slams and edges. Be nice to your body and it’ll allow you to wakeboard for a lot longer. We suggest you make regular visits to a chiropractor to make sure everything is where it should be!
Esher Chiropractic is launching their ‘Monday maintenance’ clinics, designed specifically for wakeboarders at a reduced treatment price of 30% off. Held on the first Monday of every month, Joe-James Tilley can help you keep in great shape for wakeboarding. Check out the FaceBook page and website for latest updates and how to book in to the clinic.
Wake Plan: Prevention is better than cure !!
The Wake Plan Series: Prevention is better than Cure
The Wake Plan 1 – Tailor Made Wakeboarding Fitness
The Wake Plan 2 – Complimentary sports and activities
The Wake Plan 3 – Trampoline Benefits
The Wake Plan 4 – Introducing Chiropractic
The Wake Plan 5 – Diet and nutrition
The Wake Plan 6 – Warm up and stretch
Here’s more on what how Esher Chiropractic can help you, from founder Dr. Joe-James Tilley
There is no doubt about it, wakeboarding comes with a great risk of injury. Most wakeboarders are being towed by a boat or cable between 18-24 mph. Hitting the surface water at this speed can feel like colliding with concrete. ‘The stress and strain placed on the spine and related structures is tremendous in a sport like this’. A variety of injuries are witnessed during wakeboarding which can be more aggressive due to the binding of the lower limb.
Being a wakeboarder frequently exposes the spine to trauma and other abnormal stresses. If healing of the spine is prolonged or damage is repeated (which is common with the nature of wakeboarding), these changes will become significant and will result in abnormal spinal or skeletal biomechanics. Abnormal biomechanics can result in a whole range of problems from spine and disc degeneration to prolonged muscle tightness and wastage of ligaments.
Photo © James Mckeown
Chiropractic care offers the correction of abnormal spinal mechanics in order to help restore movement and prevent spinal degeneration keeping your spine supple and healthy. Learning new tricks on a wakeboard will inevitably require more from you physically and the easiest way to keep up with your progression is to stay in shape and do what you can to prevent injuries.
Injuries can be treated if not fully prevented with regular visits to a chiropractor to improve abnormal mechanics and provide a proper exercise regime. Biomechanical alignment is essential in gaining optimal control of the board while wakeboarding.
Esher Chiropractic Centre is dedicated to the restoration and prevention of biomechanical injuries in wakeboarders. Being wakeboarders ourselves we are familiar with the strain wakeboarding places on the body. Our facility hosts the latest in spinal technology from examination to treatment giving us the most accurate image of your spinal and neurological function.
We frequently work with many wakeboarders currently looking after 3 x British Cable Champion Christian Koester. Here is what he had to say “I met Joe at the Cable a year or so back. After briefly chatting and finding out he was a chiropractor I had him sign me up immediately! As wakeboarders our bodies get put through tremendous pressures, which causes a lot of aches and pains. This is something which i have learnt that stretching alone cannot fix. You need something else. After talking to Joe, i realize there is a lot more to the source of my pains and working with him seems to be fixing it! I try to see Joe once a month or so and he does wonders with me. I guarantee that working with Joe has helped me to regain my title last year at the nationals as without him it would have been too painful! Help your body cope with the strain and drop into the practice, its a very welcoming team that will be more than happy to help you.”
Due to the recognised benefits wakeboarders can achieve through chiropractic care. Esher Chiropractic Centre will be offering a discounted maintenance treatment price to all wakeboarders on the second monday of every month.
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