Sports chiropractic & rehab

Mostly what the visit is built to do. A traditional visit finds the stiff segment and adjusts it. A sports chiropractic visit starts with how you move under load, then treats the joints, soft tissue, and strength deficits that overloaded the sore spot, and retrains the pattern before you leave. At Next Move that is one 60-minute, one-on-one appointment, and the plan is written to end when you can train without the problem coming back.

As often as the injury needs, and less as you get stronger. There is no standing schedule here. Early on, visits sit closer together while we calm the flare and start rebuilding. As you take over the rehab and your capacity climbs, they spread out, and then the plan ends. Some athletes come back for a tune-up during a heavy block or before a race. That is a choice, not a subscription.

Usually yes, and we would rather you did. Complete rest tends to leave you deconditioned with the same movement fault waiting for you when you return. Load management is a big part of the plan: we modify the exercises that provoke the injury, keep the ones that do not, and add work that builds the weak link. The exception is a fresh acute injury or anything with red flags, where the first job is ruling out damage that needs a physician.

Be careful with that promise. A 2019 systematic review found that spinal manipulation on its own does not enhance performance in healthy, pain-free adults. Where sports chiropractic earns its keep is capacity: restoring the range, strength, and pain-free training volume an injury took away, so you can do the work that actually makes you faster or stronger. If someone sells adjustments as a performance hack, ask what they are measuring.

It is a good fit, as long as the visit is more than an adjustment. Runner's knee and IT band pain are usually load and control problems: how the hip steers the knee, how the foot lands, and how fast mileage went up. Research supports hip and trunk strengthening as part of conservative care for patellofemoral pain. Our version is a running-specific assessment, hands-on work to calm the irritated tissue, and a loading plan that lets you keep running while the knee catches up.

At Next Move you can see it before you book. We are cash-pay, and the prices for the new patient exam, the 60-minute treatment visit, and the shorter 30-minute follow-up are published on this page and on the new patient page. Nothing is quoted after the fact. Once you know what a full hour with the doctor costs, you can compare it against what a shorter visit somewhere else actually includes.