31 Mar Physical Therapy Will Help Improve Your Golf Game

Physical Therapy Will Help Improve Your Golf Game

Do you love to play golf, but find yourself in pain? There is now a solution. Physical therapy will help you perform better on the golf course as well as feel pain-free. With physical therapy, you will begin to notice a great deal of improvement in your golf game and overall health.

There are many factors that lead to golf players feeling aches and pains in their bodies. For many golfers, their injuries stem from their mechanics. A golf related injury may be a pre-existing neck, back, wrist, hand shoulder or elbow injury. However, it may also be due to poor body mechanics, muscle tightness, or joint restriction.

How can physical therapy help? Physical therapists can help the golfer learn proper biomechanics and body movement. The exercises that you will conduct will help you achieve consistency with your golf swing, and eliminate pain from an existing injury.

Physical therapists will attempt to improve your flexibility, especially in your hips and shoulders because those two parts of the body are used the most during your follow through and backswing. Physical therapists will also improve your strength of your core and limb and work with you to increase your mobility. Increasing your mobility of your joints such as your shoulders, neck, back, and elbow helps prevent limitations on your swing. Physical therapy will greatly improve your balance in order to ensure a great follow through. A clean, balanced swing will help you avoid injuries to your hip, abdominal and hip musculature. These will all improve with simple stretches and exercises that your therapist will teach you. Once you learn the proper forms, you will be able to practice them with or without your physical therapists.

By working with a physical therapists, you will notice improvements quickly, and will begin to play golf with proper technique without thinking about it. Your perfect swing and follow through will become natural and a lot more safe. After all, although it is not a contact-sport, it is still a sport where you are putting your body at risk. Anytime you are moving your body unnaturally, you are susceptible to injury. But, with a little help from physical therapy, your health will go a long way.

Zoe Fackelman, a physical therapist with Lake Country Physical Therapy and Sportscare, has been an avid golfer since the age of 14. She has long known the aches and pains that accompany the sport. If you want to learn how to prepare your body to increase distance on your shots and drop shots and decrease your chance of injury call Lake Country Physical Therapy & Sportscare today!

Lake Country Physical Therapy & Sportscare PC offers the very best physical therapy in Ontario County. We treat all your wants and needs with our trusted and experienced Physical Therapists and staff. To begin to feel pain and stress free, start your Physical Therapy journey today and schedule your evaluation by calling (585) 396-1400.