Golf may seem like a low-intensity sport to the casual observer but anyone who has played it knows that it often demands high-level physical performance, especially for professionals and avid players. Moreover, golfers are not immune to getting hurt, just like any other kind of athlete. Injuries can vary from mild to severe, so golfers need to pay attention to their bodies and take steps to protect them and prevent damage.
Although there is no foolproof way to avoid injury, there are certainly ways to reduce the risk of getting injured. For golfers specifically, players can enlist TPI (Titleist Performance Institute) certified professionals to help them not only enhance their present skills but also help them maintain their physical health.
While TPI accreditation has been lauded for its ability to prevent common golfing injuries among players, its benefits are two-fold. Not only can TPI-certified professionals help their players utilize injury-preventing techniques, but they can also help their players to improve their overall game, by helping them enhance their swing biomechanics through proper posture and alignment.
In this post, we’ll discuss how working with a TPI-certified professional can help players both minimize their exposure to a multitude of common golf injuries and improve the nature of their game through proven methods.
TPI: How it Improves Your Game
Hands down, the most important weapon that a golfer yields when playing the game, is their swing. The stronger and more precise a golfer’s swing, the better chance they have at excelling in the sport. As a result, TPI concerns itself with helping golfers perfect their swings, both in matters of power and proficiency. This can be done by pinpointing certain aspects of their swing that might be preventing them from reaching their full potential, such as physical limitations and imbalances. Working with TPI-certified professionals can help golfers create harmony in their body-swing connection, in other words, strengthening the relationship between how the body moves and how the club performs.
TPI professionals assess and analyze factors such as mobility, stability, coordination, balance, and strength before subsequently drafting a personalized plan that targets the player’s specific problem areas. Suddenly, after working with a reputable TPI professional, the golfer will find that their game has drastically improved, and their exposure to injury has been seriously mitigated.
Overall, golfers who implement TPI work into their training regimen can anticipate encountering some (or all) of the following benefits in their own game.
– Improved consistency and accuracy: TPI professionals focus on helping their athletes correct posture and alignment issues. By doing so the golfer can develop a more stable and fluid swing, which regularly delivers the ball to the desired target.
– Increased distance and speed: Targeting the key joints and muscles involved in the anatomy of the swing helps the golfer generate more force and velocity with less effort and fatigue.
– Enhanced enjoyment and satisfaction: At the end of the day, sports were intended to be fun, and the more fun you have, generally speaking, the better you play. TPI professionals help instill confidence in their clients, which leads to overall better gameplay and satisfaction.
TPI’s Pivotal Role in Injury Prevention
As cliché as it may sound, in this life, we are only given one body, which is why we must take proper measures to protect it. Golf may seem deceptively low impact, but there are a lot of ways that players can cause significant damage to their bodies and set themselves up for pervasive injuries that plague the golfer’s body.
Fortunately, TPI-accredited pros, through their focus on helping players improve balance and increase mobility, have revolutionized the art of prevention. Implementing various techniques that are further personalized to account for the specific needs of the golfer in question. By utilizing these revolutionary methods, golfers can help evade the following injuries.
Back Pain: Golfers swing their bodies in a way that creates a lot of unnatural contortion and twisting. This makes the spine bend unnaturally, which can result in muscle injuries, disc damage, and even spinal breaks. Back pain over time can affect the golfers’ movement, stance, and swing, and often cause persistent pain problems like sciatica or arthritis.
Shoulder Pain: A lot of golfers experience steady shoulder pain, the result of using constant shoulder motions. Golfers can quickly get injured in the shoulder joint and the nearby muscles, ligaments, and tendons. Routine shoulder injuries for golfers include rotator cuff tears, impingement syndrome, and bursitis. These injuries cause pain, and swelling, and limit the golfer’s range of motion which will eventually affect their power and precision.
Knee Pain: Many people understand that shoulder and elbow pain is common for golfers, given the nature of the sport. However, many don’t know that knee pain is also a frequent problem for golfers. This is because golfers put a lot of pressure on their knees during the action of swinging. Moreover, if the player has bad technique or alignment the omnipresent twisting and turning of the knee can cause harm to the cartilage, meniscus, and/or ligaments. The outcome? The golfer can experience severe injuries such as meniscal tears or anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) sprains. Knee pain can also affect golfers’ stability and balance, making them vulnerable to other lower-body injuries.
Not only are the aforementioned injuries painful, but many of them are highly expensive to care for and treat, to boot. This makes TPI work all the more valuable and provides something that is ultimately priceless, the preservation of one’s health.
Get Started Today with a TPI Professional
Given its undeniable benefits, more and more medical professionals and athletic trainers are taking the necessary steps to become TPI accredited. As for you, the player? Whether you’ve been golfing since birth, or have become a recent convert to the sport, anyone and everyone who is concerned with both improving their golf game and preventing injury, should decidedly explore their options. Do yourself a favor, and for a myriad of reasons, explore the offerings provided by TPI Professionals, like those at North Carolina’s trusted chiropractic clinic, Lakeside Sports Chiropractic.
At Lakeside Sports Chiropractic and Physical Therapy, Dr. Jennifer Lidstrom and her team of experts Cornelius Chiropractors are here to help answer all your questions. Please feel free to contact us today via phone at (704)-896-8446 or visit us at our new location:
11220 Treynorth Drive, Suite A
Cornelius, NC 28031
United States
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