Sports Chiropractic Care Built Around the Athlete

At Chiros in Motion, sports chiropractic care goes beyond adjustments.

CIM works with athletes to understand what is contributing to pain, injury, or limitations in performance and builds care around the demands of the athlete’s sport.

Treatment may include chiropractic care, soft-tissue treatment, movement assessment, rehabilitation, strength-based exercises, and education to help athletes better understand their bodies and what they need to move forward.

Chiros in Motion provides mobile sports chiropractic care throughout the Issaquah area at approved homes, gyms, training facilities, sports clubs, and fields.

A Sports-Focused Approach

Every sport places different demands on the body.

Running, cutting, jumping, throwing, rotating, absorbing contact, and repeatedly performing the same movement patterns all create different physical demands.

Rather than treating every athlete the same way, CIM considers:

• The athlete’s sport
• Position and training demands
• Current symptoms or injury
• Movement patterns
• Strength and mobility
• Training workload
• Previous injuries
• Goals for returning to sport or improving performance

The goal is to help athletes better understand what is contributing to the problem and create a clear plan for what comes next.

Soccer

Soccer has been a major part of Dr. Emma Scaro’s life as both an athlete and coach.

Dr. Scaro competed at the Division I level before playing professionally in Northern Ireland and Sweden. She has also coached athletes at the youth and collegiate levels.

That experience provides a unique understanding of the physical demands of soccer, including sprinting, cutting, deceleration, repeated high-intensity efforts, kicking, and the challenges involved in returning to play after injury.

CIM works with soccer players dealing with new injuries, recurring problems, movement limitations, and return-to-sport rehabilitation.

Fencing

Dr. Scaro also serves as a sports medicine provider with USA Fencing and has worked with fencing athletes at national and international competitions.

Fencing requires repeated lunging, rapid changes of direction, rotational control, mobility, balance, and the ability to tolerate large amounts of sport-specific training.

Working directly within the sport provides valuable insight into the demands placed on fencing athletes and the types of issues that can develop over the course of training and competition.

Field and Court Sports

Many field and court sports share similar physical demands.

Athletes may repeatedly sprint, jump, land, cut, accelerate, decelerate, rotate, or change direction throughout practice and competition.

CIM works with athletes across a variety of sports by evaluating the specific movements and physical demands that matter most to their activity.

This may include athletes participating in:

• Soccer
• Basketball
• Volleyball
• Football
• Baseball and softball
• Running
• Fencing
• Other competitive and recreational sports

Injury Rehabilitation

An injury can affect much more than the area that hurts.

CIM looks at the athlete as a whole to determine what may be contributing to the problem and what needs to improve before returning to sport.

Depending on the athlete, care may include:

• Chiropractic treatment
• Soft-tissue and manual therapy
• Movement assessment
• Mobility work
• Strength and rehabilitation exercises
• Sport-specific progressions
• Return-to-sport planning
• Education around training, recovery, and injury risk

The goal is not simply to reduce symptoms.

The goal is to help the athlete understand the problem, rebuild the areas that need attention, and develop a clearer path back to sport.

Injury Risk Reduction

Not every athlete who works with CIM is currently injured.

Movement limitations, strength deficits, training changes, previous injuries, and sport-specific demands can all influence how an athlete tolerates training.

CIM helps athletes identify areas that may benefit from additional attention and provides practical strategies they can incorporate into training.

This can include mobility, strength, movement control, recovery strategies, and education around the demands of their sport.

Athlete Education

Understanding why something matters can make it much easier for an athlete to actually apply it.

Education is an important part of the Chiros in Motion approach.

Rather than simply telling athletes what exercises to perform