Sports Injury

Chiropractic care goes beyond masking pain with drugs. Whether you're a weekend warrior or a competitive athlete, repetitive motion, high impact, and overtraining can lead to misalignment, soft tissue damage, and nerve compression. We focus on correcting the root cause of your injury, restoring proper alignment, and improving range of motion so you can return to peak performance and reduce the risk of re-injury.

Most of the athletes who come through our door aren't professionals. They're the guy in a rec league at the fields off Wells Branch Parkway, the runner training for the Austin half, the high schooler who plays one sport in the fall and a different one in the spring, the parent who joined a lifting class in January and has been chasing a sore shoulder ever since. What they usually have in common is that they've been training around the problem for a while. It hurts for the first ten minutes, warms up, feels fine during the game, and is worse that night. So they keep going, because it's never quite bad enough to stop.

That pattern is worth paying attention to, because warming up isn't the same as healing. Two very different things bring people in. One is the single moment: a rolled ankle, a hard landing, a twist you felt right away. The other builds quietly from doing the same motion thousands of times, which is why a runner's shin, a thrower's shoulder, and a lifter's low back each have their own well-known story. The overuse version is the one people wait longest on, and it's also the one where the sore spot often isn't the source. A knee that hurts can come from a hip that isn't doing its share of the work. An ankle that keeps rolling can come from strength and control that never fully came back after the first time.

So an exam here looks past the painful spot. We check how the joint in question moves, what's tender, how the joints above and below it are working, and where strength or control drops off. Then we tell you what we found in plain terms, including when the answer is that you'd be better served by a different kind of provider. Care typically combines adjustments where movement is restricted, hands-on soft tissue work and muscle stimulation around the area, and a specific set of exercises you do between visits, because the rebuilding part is what keeps you from ending up in the same spot next season. We'll also give you a straight answer about training. Sometimes that means resting the one movement that aggravates it and keeping everything else. Sometimes it means a real break. We'd rather say that out loud in week one than have you discover it in week six.

Bring the details of your training with you, including what you actually did in the week or two before it started, since a jump in mileage, load, or frequency is often the piece that explains the rest. We're at 3407 Wells Branch Pkwy, Suite 625, in Wells Branch, North Austin, with parking right at the door, and the Chicoine family has been caring for people here since 1989. Dr. Shelly Hogan, D.C. and Dr. Nicole Edwards, D.C. are sisters, and they see athletes of all ages from Wells Branch, Pflugerville, and the Tech Ridge area, including a lot of young athletes during the school seasons. Rosamaria on our team speaks fluent Spanish. Texas doesn't require a referral, so you can book online or call (512) 255-1777.