Getting The Athletic Edge

Achieving Excellence Through Chiropractic Care

What do Barry Bonds, Tiger Woods, Andy Roddick, and Lance Armstrong have in common? They are incredibly accomplished athletes that have used chiropractic care as a key ingredient to their success. The fact is that more professional athletes use chiropractic than ever before. Even more revealing is the increased use of regular chiropractic care for entire professional teams. The magazine Chiropractic Economics reported that over 95% of teams in the NFL use chiropractors as a regular part of player care. Some professional athletes pay personal chiropractors to give treatment before, during, or after a game. Barry Bonds, one of the best all time baseball players, has a personal chiropractor who travels to games. Bonds has incorporated chiropractic into his lifestyle. He reportedly said, "I think it should be mandatory to see a chiropractor and massage therapist." Professional athletes get three main benefits with chiropractic care. They are to prevent injury, manage injury, and to enhance physical performance. Perhaps the most exciting thing about chiropractic is the performance enhancing abilities it provides athletes. A study in 1991 in the Journal of Chiropractic Research and Clinical Investigation revealed that chiropractic care can increase athletic performance by as much as 16.7%. Another study in the Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research in 1997 revealed that chiropractic care increases an athletes capillary count. This means increased blood flow and more oxygen to the body. Both professional and amateur athletes look into chiropractic and how it can help them perform to their potential.

Dr. Zach's Comments:

• Article Highlights: 1) The 1991 study showing chiropractic care increases athletic performance by as much as 16.7% and the 1997 study showing it increases capillary blood flow.


• Increasing performance by 16.7% is a huge edge for any competitive athlete at any level. Maybe that's why 95% of NFL teams use chiropractic care. If you are a competing at any level, chiropractic is a very simple and proven effective way to increase performance.


• Why? Because Chiropractic IS NOT ABOUT CORRECTION, IT'S ABOUT CONNECTION. Your body is designed to be vibrantly healthy, and it will be as long as you give it what it needs (sufficient nutrients, water, rest, and activity) and avoid the things that cause dysfunction (toxins, drugs, sedentary lifestyle, AND Interference to your nervous system). Your nervous system is what controls and coordinated every activity and function of your body. What causes interference to your nervous system? Vertebral Subluxation (spinal misalignments). Who is the only Health Professional trained to correct Vertebral Subluxation. Chiropractors. It's no wonder that so many elite athletes are putting chiropractors on their "team". Are you?