Chiropractic Solutions for Common Overuse Injuries

Repetitive movements using improper form with insufficient recovery time often result in overuse injuries. Whether your injury is the result of swinging a club repeatedly at the golf course or simply lifting up your child several times a day, there are ways to ease your pain.

Our talented team, led by experienced chiropractor Andrew Dube, DC, offers help for overuse injuries causing shoulder pain, pinched nerves, and more at Apollo Chiropractic in Manhattan, New York City.

Pain in repetition

Unlike a break or sprain, repetitive stress injuries occur over time. Straining your muscles, bones, and joints may lead to limited mobility and chronic soreness. Common overuse injuries include:

• Rotator cuff tendinitis
• Tennis and pickleball elbow
• Achilles tendinitis
• Runner's knee
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Stress fractures

Dr. Dube offers a range of treatments to help you recover from these, and other, injuries.

How to treat overuse injuries

Repetitive movements, from typing to running, may cause inflammation and tiny tears in your tendons and muscles, transforming minor irritations into painful ailments.

Dr. Dube offers chiropractic care to help you heal via:

• Spinal adjustments to relieve pinched nerves
• Realignment of peripheral joints
• Soft tissue therapies, such as myofascial work
• Trigger-point release to ease muscle tension
• Customized exercises to help you strengthen muscles and improve flexibility

We also recommend ergonomic modifications and improved techniques for performing repetitive movements.

What causes repetitive stress injuries?

Poor spinal alignment and other issues contribute to these problems. We suggest you:

• Warm up before any exercise to increase blood flow
• Cool down to reduce muscle tightness
• Stretch before working out to reduce risk of injury
• Avoid overtraining
• Increase activity gradually
• Wear proper shoes
• Use an ergonomically correct chair that supports proper alignment 

We also suggest varying your sports to reduce repetitive movements.

Common symptoms

Pay attention to your body. The most obvious sign of a repetitive injury is pain. You may also experience limited range of motion and mobility, swelling, tenderness, and numbness.

Dr. Dube helps you pinpoint the precise stressors that led to these issues, while providing chiropractic treatments to reduce your discomfort and improve mobility.

While waiting for treatment

To ease pain and swelling, apply heat to relax muscles, use ice to reduce inflammation, and take time out from the activities that caused problems.

We look forward to teaching you techniques to lessen your body’s vulnerability.

Practice makes perfect

Dr. Dube adjusts your spine to keep your body in proper alignment. He also teaches you how to strengthen your muscles for better overall support. These, and other techniques, help you move better, improve coordination, reduce recovery time, and avoid overuse injuries.

Continuing to repeat the movements that caused your injury stresses other muscles and joints, which, if left unchecked, may lead to more complex problems. Allow your body time to mend.

We help you heal

Techniques such as manual adjustment relieve nerve pressure while improving function. Manual adjustment works especially well on repetitive stress injuries by providing a swift, controlled force that realigns out-of-place joints.

Dr. Dube and our expert team offer guidance plus a variety of treatments to relieve your overuse injuries and beyond. Simply call one of our Manhattan offices, serving Midtown and the Upper West Side, or use our online scheduler to make an appointment with us at Apollo Chiropractic today.