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Sport
Sport Sport!
At Putney Chiropractic Centre we love sport and helping people be their best in their chosen sport. Your enjoyment and performance can improve massively with improved bio-mechanics and balanced spinal alignment, whether you are walking the dog or training for an Olympic gold.
At PCC we enjoy sport all year round, whether it's skiing, running, cycling, swimming, triathlon, gym workouts, football, surfing, golf, tennis, lawn bowls, you name it, we'll try it. Below are listed sports that we have a special interest in.
Cycling
Our cycling page details how some of our top local cyclists love getting their spine adjusted a the benefits they have received
Lance
Armstrong, seven times winner of Tour de France,
is a big Chiropractic fan, as are many of the professional
athletes whose main focus is on optimum performance from their
bodies.
In Lance's book 'Every Second Counts', he describes the role
Jeff Spencer - US Postal and Team Discovery Chiropractor -
played in the team:
'If you judged the most important
man on the Postal team
by the foot traffic in and out of his door, then it was Jeff.
Without him, we knew we'd never make it to Paris'
Triathlon - swimming, cycling and running - 3 x the stress
We compete regularly in triathlon and understand the unique
stresses it places on your body, swimming attacks the neck
and shoulders, cycling the low back and running the low back
and legs. Read from one of the best below…
'The equation of "skiing accident + surgery = no running" was not an acceptable outcome to me... My chiropractic doctor used muscle testing to find out which organs and glands might be stressed out and therefore affecting the workings of the muscles and bones.... I was amazed that knee pain so debilitating and painful one minute could disappear as if by magic the next.'
Stu Mittleman 1000 mile marathon runner and author of 'Slow Burn'
Rowing/Kayak/Canoe
Long hours training, not enough sleep, trying to keep up a
social life all around a full time job? We've been there done
that and own enough t-shirts that it is really quite embarrassing.
We can't make the training easier, but we can help your body
respond better and help you achieve the goals you aspire to.
Putney Chiropractic long time client Tim Brabants the Olympic Gold medallist in Beijing 2008, K1 1000m - outlines the story of his success here and brought his medals to show us in Putney.
Our new location is within 200m of the nearest Putney Embankment rowing club and we look after many of the rowers who train on the Thames. Read about how we have helped a member of Thames RCWomen's 8 come runners up in the club competition in the 2010 Women's Head.
Golf
Dr Craig has a fairly low handicap (11) and has been playing
for 12 years. Although a fair-weather golfer now he understands
the biomechanics of a golf swing and has had enough coaching
to understand why it is important to have good spinal strength
and flexibility.
Skiing
Warren Smith, Graham Bell and Konrad
Bartelski all have something to say about how chiropractic
will improve your performance on or off piste.
Football
Read a quote from the team Chiropractor (who is also the director
and head of the medical team) of AC Milan football club. He
set up a sports rehab lab that is leading the way for sporting
clubs world wide.
'When they asked me if I wanted
the job, I said, sure,
but on one condition. I really wanted to have the power
to control things. So the first thing that we did was to fire
the total medical staff. The second thing that we did was
to fire all the physiotherapists. And we started from scratch.
Basically, applying the principles of applied kinesiology
(a chiropractic technique), taking care of the structure,
the biochemical system, and the mental site.
We won the championship the first year….'
Transcribed from a presentation by Jean-Pierre
Meersseman, DC, DIBAK, in Rome, March 2004
Rugby
It probably goes without saying that we see a lot of rugby
players at the practice! Impact with both the ground and other
players can cause a serious amount of imbalance in the body.
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