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The Kinesio Taping Method is applied over muscles to reduce pain and inflammation, relax overused tired muscles, and to support muscles in movement. Examples of use are:

Theoretically, KINESIO TEX (R) TAPE will lift the skin to increase the space between the skin and muscle. This reduced localized pressure helps promote circulation, lymphatic drainage, and lessens the irritation on the subcutaneous neural pain receptors. Thus, the Kinesio Taping Technique reduces pain, swelling and muscle spasm, and subsequently promotes the body's natural healing processes.Additionally, the built-in stretch of the TAPE supports fatigued, weakened and/or strained muscles.

             



      

Ease Your Pain . . . Play Your Game!

Who Can Benefit from Sports Chiropractic

Many professional athletic and sports organizations recognize the value of chiropractic care in correcting and preventing injuries. Chiropractic care can be beneficial for both amateur and professional athletes engaged in all kinds of sports activities.  Sports Chiropractors work in concert with athletic trainers and their team of sports professionals, such as podiatrists, orthopedic specialists, physical therapists, massage therapists and other health care professionals to provide the best treatment for each individual athlete.

What Your Sports Chiropractor Can Do for You and Your Team

Dr. Smykal’s extensive specialized training allows the athlete the very best in “on “ and “off” the field care utilizing natural methods of health care, without fear of drug reaction, loss of alertness, or contest disqualification.

As your Chiropractic Sports Medicine professional, he can provide:

• Pre-Participation Examination  
  
• Emergency Procedures    
  
• Exercise Prescription
  
• Injury Prevention
  
• Physical Therapy
  
• Body Mechanics
  
• Joint Supports
  
• Rehabilitation
  
• Diagnosis
  
• Nutrition
  
• Training
  
• Taping
  

No other part of the health care team offers so much to the athlete to enable him/her to achieve the highest level of competitive effort. 

Dr. Smykal is also well trained to recognize the need for referral to other health care professionals and is not hesitant to do so, when needed. Dr. Smykal knows how to get your body to function at its best, which makes him a valuable addition to any sports team!

Chiropractic is a branch of the healing arts which is based upon the understanding that good health depends, in part, upon a normally functioning nervous system (especially the spine, and the nerves extending from the spine to all parts of the body).  “Chiropractic” comes from the Greek word Chiropraktikos, meaning “effective treatment by hand.”  Chiropractic stresses the idea that the cause of many disease processes begins with the body’s inability to adapt to its environment.  It looks to address these diseases not by the use of drugs and chemicals, but by locating and adjusting a musculoskeletal area of the body which is functioning improperly.

The conditions which doctors of chiropractic address are as varied and as vast as the nervous system itself.  All chiropractors use a standard procedure of examination to diagnose a patient’s condition and arrive at a course of treatment.  Doctors of chiropractic use the same time-honored methods of consultation, case history, physical examination, laboratory analysis and x-ray examination as any other doctor.  In addition, they provide a careful chiropractic structural examination, paying particular attention to the spine.

The examination of the spine to evaluate structure and function is what makes chiropractic different from other health care procedures.  Your spinal column is a series of movable bones which begin at the base of your skull and end in the center of your hips.  Thirty-one pairs of spinal nerves extend down the spine from the brain and exit through a series of openings.  The nerves leave the spine and form a complicated network which influences every living tissue in your body.
 

Accidents, falls, stress, tension, overexertion, and countless other factors can result in a displacements or derangements of the spinal column, causing irritation to spinal nerve roots.  These irritations are often what cause malfunctions in the human body.  Chiropractic teaches that reducing or eliminating this irritation to spinal nerves can cause your body to operate more efficiently and more comfortably.

Chiropractic also places an emphasis on nutritional and exercise programs, wellness and lifestyle modifications for promoting physical and mental health.  While chiropractors make no use of drugs or surgery, Doctors of chiropractic do refer patients for medical care when those interventions are indicated.  In fact, chiropractors, medical doctors, physical therapists and other health care professionals now work as partners in occupational health, sports medicine, and a wide variety of other rehabilitation practices.