From Adjustment Table to Competition, Table Tennis Players Benefit from Chiropractic
One of the world’s fastest-paced games involving a great deal of potential body trauma is the sport of table tennis. Around the world it rivals soccer as an immensely popular sport with over 40 million registered competitive players. In the United States it is considered more recreational, but up and coming with 600,000 competition players.
What makes table tennis a sport where competitors can benefit from Chiropractic is the enormous amount of body rotation and twisting involved in the game. The speed of the ball in competitive matches often nears 100 miles per hour, and it takes an enormous amount of rotation around the body core to create such velocity.
In addition, the game requires fast mental and physical reactions, speedy acceleration as well as dives and lunges to retrieve wildly spinning balls. All of this combines to put a great deal of stress on the body. Players have noted benefits from Chiropractic adjustments prior to and following intense matches.
Recently, some of the top players in the United States had an opportunity to experience the benefits of Chiropractic at the US National Championships held in Las Vegas, NV. Several chiropractors set up shop to provide assistance to players and to introduce them to the benefits Chiropractic could have on their overall performance.
Biljana “Biba” Golic, a former US Collegiate Women’s Champ, was one of the top athletes who experienced Chiropractic for the very first time. After just one adjustment she said she felt an increase in her energy level, her muscle tightness was dramatically improved and so was her overall performance. This brought her back for more adjustments during the course of the tournament.
Dr. Rae Kelly was one of the chiropractors who enjoyed working with the athletes and had this to say: “The amount of forceful body or truck twisting associated with this level of play is truly amazing. Repetitive twisting produces significant repetitive rotational injuries. Many players came back to us before their matches for repeat treatments because it helped reduce their pain, increase their range of motion and improve their overall performance.”
Teodor Gheorge is a 15-time Romanian Champ and is now the executive director of USA Table Tennis. “Players discovered that increasing the energy level and curing the pain could be accomplished within 5 to 10 minutes of Chiropractic care,” he said. “It is like magic in a real world.”