Is back pain keeping you from enjoying a complete round on the links? With the one sided movement in the golf swing, virtually every golfer at some period undergoes some form of injury or pain: some acute and others chronic. Doctors of Chiropractic are the best choice to assess, educate, treat, condition and train golfers.

Folsom, California golf player Gil VanAttenhoven tells how he hurt his back while playing golf and was unable to finish the round due to difficulty walking. Although uneasy at first, two of his friends recommended he go to Barger Chiropractic of Folsom and after four chiropractic treatments, he was back on the golf course participating in what he enjoys.

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The golf swing requires the spine to turn, bend laterally and extend. This requires flexibility that is specific to golfers. Doctors of Chiropractic have extensive training in the bio-mechanics of human movement and can assist you in identifying the cause of your complaint or problem, then treat it.

The chiropractor’s job is not to show you the golf swing, but to identify the bio-mechanical movement responsible for a repetitive strain injury. Additional injury is prevented by confining and re-routing a improper swing. This can initially be analyzed in the office setting for obvious problems.

Posture plays an vital part, with static posture responsible for overall alignment before the swing begins. A measure of a golfer’s dynamic postural fitness and strength is the ability to maintain proper posture during the golf swing.

Good golf posture requires proper positioning of both the cervical spine and lumbar spine, with maintaining of the forward curvatures (lordosis). These forward neck and back curves allow mechanical leverage for power and facilitate your ability to turn your body. Bad golf posture collapses these curves, inhibiting spinal rotation. This leads to golfers to over-swing, resulting in soft tissue injuries.

With the above in mind, the primary reason for pelvic and torso rotation in the back-swing is to acquire a body position that permits effective club head delivery at ball contact. The three main reasons for you to incorporate a short back-swing that decreases spinal rotation are:

1. More control of the golf club and club head throughout the swing, which transforms into better control of the golf ball.
2. Short back swings acquire equal club-head speed at ball impact as long back-swings, according to research by Seaman in his article “Back pain in golfers:etiology and prevention.”
3. Torsional stress in the lumbar spine is minimized with a short back-swing.

There are numerous ways of care that chiropractors can provide golfers, including preventive swing advice, spinal alignments, rehabilitation exercises and non-drug anti-inflammatory nutrition. Spinal alignments are good for reducing pain and improving spinal function.

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