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Golf: Dealing With Swing Faults

Written by Dr. Jeff Hogan

Topic: SportsPublished May 11, 2010
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Every golfer aims to perform a perfect golf swing. This muscle-stretching sport needs chiropractic advice and assistance to avoid back-related injuries, get rid of pain due to these injuries, and play better. Many golfers have faults in their swing. Swing faults can break a golfer’s career. What are swing faults? If your swing affects the club face alignment, swing path, angle of attack, hitting the sweet spot, or club head speed, then you have swing faults. So, review yourself and correct the swing faults. First analyze your swing and identify the features which cause swing faults. A solution can be found by altering stance, swing amplitude, hip/shoulder turn ratio, grip, etc. Swing faults can be rectified by rectifying the imbalances in the musculoskeletal structures of your body. The nervous, muscular and skeletal systems combine to create the neuromechanical system which is responsible for a good swing. The neuromechanical system’s state of readiness is based on the following. 1. Muscle Balance and Flexibility rn2. Static and Dynamic Postural Stability rn3. Strength rn4. Power Analyze your performance based on your neuromechanical system and identify the reasons for a faulty swing. Ball flight is controlled by muscle balance and flexibility and static and dynamic postural stability which directly influence joint mechanics, muscle recruitment patterns, and consistency of movement. Strength and power also have a role to play in the angle of attack, club head speed, and hitting the sweet spot. What can a chiropractor do for you? A chiropractor can do the following 1. Analyze your physiquern2. Help you to improve your gamern3. Relieve you of pain. Analysis A chiropractor could run a golf body screen and golf shape Rx and assess and reveal the factors that influence your swing faults by analyzing the following. • Dynamic & static posturern• Weight distributionrn• Weight transferrn• Swing center movementrn• Center of gravity positionsrn• Rotationrn• Wrist positionrn• Head movementrn• Spine angles and more Help you to improve your game A golf body screen and golf shape Rx help a chiropractor to identify your swing faults, the physical cause, and the corrections necessary to change your game. If you follow a chiropractors’s advice, from driving to putting, you will be able to improve your ball striking, to hit the ball farther and with greater consistency, to get stronger and more flexible, and to watch yourself get over the hurdles you have faced so far in playing the game. Relief from Pain The golf shape Rx factor becomes dangerous when the swing method does not allow the golfer to keep his shoulder and pelvis parallel. Without this rigid parallelism, the rotational faulty swing will lead to back pain. To get back to the golf link at the earliest, the golfer uses some pain-killers to be relieved of pain. But it only provides a temporary relief. A good chiropractic could relieve you of this pain and help you play better. The golf swing puts an unusual demand on your body. Due to the unilateral rotation of the spine when you aim for a full swing with your club head, the stress is on your back muscles and you could injure your back, elbows, shoulders, wrists/hands, knees or hips in a swing. So, it is essential that you know yourself first, so that you can avoid being injured and enhance your playing skills with power-packed swings. A chiropractor could be of great help to analyze yourself, improve your game and also get rid of pain in case you are injured.

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Dr. Jeff Hogan has nearly 10 years of experience in chiropractic services. His expertise has helped many golfers in terms of golf fitness and swing faults, tuning them for a great career in golf. For more information, visit www.hoganchiropractic.com

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