Cascade Chiropractic Center

The benefit of sports chiropractic care for sports injuries and increased performance is well documented. It is estimated that 90% of all world-class athletes utilize chiropractic care to help improve their physical performance and/or to recover more rapidly and completely from injuries. All of the National Football League (NFL) teams have a team chiropractor. Most of the Major League Baseball teams utilize chiropractic care and chiropractors are on staff to treat athletes at the Olympics. A Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician  (CCSP) is a specialty within the chiropractic profession that requires a minimum of 100 hours of postgraduate education. To obtain the CCSP specialty degree a five-hour sports medicine exam administered by the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians must also be taken and passed. Annual continuing education hours in sports medicine must also be completed to maintain a CCSP specialty degree. Hopefully, this helps make obvious the importance of

Spinal discs are the cushions or “shock absorbers” between the spinal bones or vertebrae which if damaged can cause a herniated disc. The discs also allow for motion in the spine. The disc is made of a tough outer border and a softer gelatinous center kind of like a jelly donut. When the tough outer border becomes torn or cracked some of the softer center called the nucleus can be pushed out causing a bulge or herniation. This is what is typically referred to as a herniated disc. Other terms that are sometimes used include a pinched nerve in the neck or back, a trapped nerve or a disc rupture to spinal decompression. Symptoms of a herniated disc The symptoms associated with a herniated disc depend on what direction the disc herniates and what other tissue the herniated disc places pressure on. In some cases a herniated disc will create little or no pain at all. The various symptoms of a herniated disc depend on which pain sensitive tissue the disc puts pressure on and include th