Sports Chiropractic in Wilsonville

Acute care is for pain that has recently developed as a result of a specific injury. Most athletes will receive acute care because they can pinpoint when the injury occurred and quickly realize something is wrong. For athletes, it’s critical for the body to be operating at top form, which makes them seek out treatment immediately before the injury affects their performance or prevents them from playing their sports. Acute care treatment almost always includes icing the area and resting it, along with chiropractic adjustments, exercises or treatments deemed necessary by the Doctor of Chiropractic.

Ongoing care is frequently seen in athletes or “weekend warriors” who are trying to maintain peak performance, but aren’t as pressed to get back into action as athletes seeking acute care. These are often maintenance plans that occur on a regular schedule. They serve to keep the body in proper alignment and ensure that the joints don’t lock up. Ongoing care treatments include adjustments, exercises and other treatments prescribed by the Chiropractor.

This is a situation where an old injury that was never treated or wasn’t treated properly flares up years, or even decades later. The Chiropractor will want a detailed history of the injury, including how it happened, care received between then and now, what (if anything) has been done to manage it and how much use the area receives now. Only after this history has been taken and an examination performed can the Chiropractor develop a treatment plan. The short-term goal in these situations is to relieve the pain as quickly as possible for the patient, but the long-term goal is to correct the problem at its root cause if that can be done. Depending on the injury and its severity, treatment will follow the same patterns as acute and ongoing care: ice, rest, adjustments, exercises, and treatments.