Chiropractic Care for Athletes in West Chester, OH
Boost Performance, Speed-Up Recovery, and Prevent Injuries Naturally at Align Chiropractic.
Athletes push their bodies to the limit, demanding strength, endurance, flexibility, and rapid recovery. Whether you’re a weekend warrior, high school athlete, or professional competitor, maintaining peak performance and preventing injuries are essential.
At Align Chiropractic in West Chester, OH, we specialize in helping athletes optimize their performance, recover faster, and stay in the game longer—without relying on painkillers or invasive treatments.
Why Athletes Need Chiropractic Care
Sports place extreme stress on the body, increasing the risk of misalignments, muscular imbalances, and nerve interference. When the spine and joints are out of alignment, it can:
• Reduce mobility and flexibility
• Increase injury risk
• Slow down recovery times
• Cause chronic pain and inflammation
• Negatively impact strength and endurance
At Align Chiropractic, we focus on correcting these misalignments, enhancing your body’s ability to move efficiently, heal quickly, and perform at its peak.
Why Top Athletes Trust Chiropractic Care
Many elite athletes turn to chiropractic care to stay at the top of their game. Tom Brady, Michael Jordan, Serena Williams, Usain Bolt, and others have all credited chiropractic care as part of their performance and recovery strategies.
NFL Hall of Famer Jerry Rice once said:
“Chiropractic was key to keeping me in the game.”
Chiropractic isn’t just for professionals—it’s for every athlete who wants to
train, recover, and compete at their best.
Who Can Benefit from Chiropractic Care?
We treat athletes of all ages and skill levels, including:
• Youth athletes: Prevent injuries, improve posture, and support proper
growth
• High school & college athletes: Enhance strength, flexibility, and sports
performance
• Recreational & endurance athletes: Support joint health and mobility
for long-term activity
• Professional athletes: Improve recovery times and maintain peak
physical condition
At Align Chiropractic in West Chester, OH, we’re dedicated to helping athletes perform at their highest level. Whether you want to improve flexibility, recover from an injury, or prevent future problems, our chiropractic approach is designed to keep you strong, mobile, and pain-free.
Align is different, it is a chiropractor’s office but more than that it is a professional group who truly care about their patients. You actually feel like you are with friends, people who’s really care about your health.
– Tom Irving
How we help Athletes perform at their best:
1. Specific Chiropractic Adjustments
Chiropractic adjustments restore spinal alignment, ensuring optimal nervous system function, joint mobility, and muscle coordination. Misalignments (subluxations) disrupt communication between the brain and body, leading to delayed reaction times, decreased strength, and poor biomechanics.
By correcting these misalignments, we help you:
✔ Improve flexibility and range of motion
✔ Increase muscle activation and coordination
✔ Enhance balance and proprioception (body awareness)
Whether you’re a runner needing better hip mobility, a football player recovering from impact stress, or a weightlifter improving joint stability, regular chiropractic care keeps your body moving efficiently.
2. Injury Prevention & Rehabilitation
One of the biggest challenges for athletes is avoiding injuries that keep them on the sidelines.
Common sports-related injuries we treat include:
• Sprains and strains (shoulder, ankle, knee, hamstring)
• Shin splints and plantar fasciitis
• Tendonitis and overuse injuries
• Concussions and whiplash (especially for contact sports)
• Lower back pain and sciatica
Through spinal adjustments, muscle therapy, and corrective exercises, we help strengthen weak areas, improve joint stability, and correct improper movement patterns—reducing the risk of recurring injuries.
3. Spinal Decompression Therapy for Recovery
Repetitive impact and stress—especially in contact sports or endurance training—can lead to compressed spinal discs, nerve irritation, and chronic pain.
Spinal decompression therapy gently stretches the spine, relieving pressure on discs and nerves while promoting healing. This therapy is highly effective for:
✔ Lower back and neck pain
✔ Sciatica and nerve compression
✔ Herniated or bulging discs
By restoring proper spinal alignment and relieving pressure on the nervous system, athletes experience faster recovery times and reduced chronic
pain.
4. Soft Tissue Therapy & EPAT Shockwave Therapy
Athletes often suffer from muscle tightness, scar tissue buildup, and inflammation that limit movement and cause discomfort.
At Align Chiropractic, we use EPAT Shockwave Therapy to reduce inflammation and stimulate tissue healing.
5. Custom Strength & Mobility Training Recommendations
A key component of long-term athletic success is developing strength, stability, and proper movement mechanics. Our team at Align Chiropractic works with athletes to help them create personalized corrective exercise programs that target weak areas, improve stability, and prevent future injuries.
We focus on:
✔ Core strengthening for spinal stability
✔ Hip and shoulder mobility for full-body movement efficiency
✔ Balance and agility training for improved coordination
Whether you’re recovering from an injury or looking to improve your strength and endurance, our customized approach ensures you train smarter, not harder.
What To Expect
Our team has helped thousands of people transform their health and reach their full health potential.
We understand when you are experiencing pain, discomfort and other limitations poor health can place on your life, it can leave you feeling hopeless and frustrated, especially when your current care options just aren’t working. From the moment you arrive, you will feel heard, empowered and encouraged so you may experience true health and do what you love.
Pre Visit
Since chiropractic care involves a series of visits, with each one building on the ones before, it’s important for you to feel comfortable right from the start.
Once you book your appointment, whether online or over the phone with a team member, you’ll immediately be texted and emailed the new patient paperwork. Our doctors spend a great deal of time going through your paperwork together as a team before your visit, so we’re ready as soon as you arrive.
1st Visit
New patients often remark on how friendly the Align Chiropractic office is. Our office also employs the latest technologies: from digital X-rays to a computerized note tracking system. This is important because our goal is to offer state-of-the-art chiropractic care in a comfortable surrounding.
We Explain Everything First
The purpose of your consultation with the doctor is to discuss your health goals and see if chiropractic is likely to help you. If it looks promising, a thorough examination will help identify the cause of your problem. The examination will include orthopedic tests, Range of Motion, and a posture exam. Depending on the results of the exam X-rays will be taken to confirm your condition or diagnosis. Patients appreciate that we explain everything in advance!
2nd & 3rd Visits
After we study your health history and correlate our examination findings, we’ll make recommendations designed to help you get and keep your health. You doctor will then orally go over the findings and give you your first chiropractic adjustment. This is usually attended to on your second visit, which will be the following day.
Report of Findings
The following visit is called the Report of Findings or Doctors Report. This is where we will thoroughly educate and explain your problem and how chiropractic will help. Due to patient volume, the education part of the report is done in a group and the results and insurance financials are then gone over individually.
This is usually attended to on your third visit. This three-visit approach accomplishes several things:
- Reduces the length of your first visit
- Gives us time to correlate our findings
- Avoids overloading you with too much information
- Allows time to review any financial or care plan questions in detail
- In certain situations, and in the professional judgment of the doctors we sometimes make exceptions. It just depends on your unique situation.
Long Term
We focus on the nervous system, structural correction, and addressing the cause which allows the body to heal itself. We do believe life-time chiropractic is absolutely beneficial. The Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics reported that “patients who went to DCs (doctors of chiropractic) as their primary care providers had 43% decreases in hospital admissions, 52% reductions in pharmaceutical costs and 43% fewer outpatient surgeries and procedures.” We have hundreds of patients who chose to continue getting adjusted year after year because they experience the benefits of strong immune systems, less sickness, better sleep, more energy, reduced symptoms, and overall better health. We also have patients who get adjusted for a specific issue, experience releif, and decide not to move forward with a wellness or maintenance plan. We high five, let them know we’re thankful to be part of their health journey, and make it clear we’re available with open arms should they ever need care again. We hope you forever take care of your nervous system and overall health, but ultimately, you are in charge of making your own health decisions. We always desire to be on your team and to encourage you along the way.