Sports Medicine
Performance-focused care for athletes and active individuals dealing with pain, restricted movement, sports injuries, or the demands of returning safely to activity.
Sports medicine is not only for professional athletes. It is for anyone who wants to recover from injury, stay active, and move at a higher level.
At Columbia Basin Chiropractic Center, sports care is personalized around your injury, activity, training demands, movement limitations, and performance goals.
Helping athletes move, recover, and perform.
Sports medicine focuses on the evaluation, treatment, rehabilitation, and prevention of musculoskeletal injuries affecting athletes and active individuals.
Dr. Eric Kurtz is recognized as a Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner. Care may combine chiropractic treatment, movement assessment, rehabilitation equipment, exercise guidance, and strategies intended to support a safer return to activity.
From injury to confident movement.
A successful plan considers more than pain. It also addresses mobility, strength, control, and the demands of your sport or activity.
Identify the injured area, movement restrictions, and contributing factors.
Improve joint movement, mobility, and comfort through personalized care.
Develop strength, stability, coordination, and tolerance for activity.
Progress safely toward practice, exercise, competition, or normal activity.
Care for acute injuries and recurring problems.
Sports injuries may result from a sudden impact, repetitive use, training errors, mobility limitations, poor mechanics, or returning to activity before the body is ready.
A complete plan—not just a quick adjustment.
Your care plan is based on your examination, injury history, sport, training schedule, current limitations, and the level of activity you want to return to.
Chiropractic Care
Controlled techniques designed to improve joint movement and reduce mechanical restriction.
Mobility Work
Targeted movement strategies for areas that are stiff, restricted, or compensating.
Rehabilitation
Progressive exercise using strength, control, coordination, and sports-specific movement.
Injury Prevention
Guidance intended to reduce recurrence and support better mechanics during activity.
The treatment plan should fit the athlete—not force every athlete into the same routine.
Helping you stay active after the pain improves.
Feeling better is important, but returning to full activity may require restoring strength, control, stability, and confidence—not simply waiting for pain to disappear.
A progressive return-to-play approach.
Your progression is based on function, movement quality, tolerance, and the demands of your activity.
Sports care may also help with:
How we build your sports care plan.
Activity History
We discuss your sport, training demands, injury history, symptoms, schedule, and goals.
Movement Evaluation
Your provider evaluates joint movement, mobility, strength, control, and the motions that reproduce symptoms.
Clinical Explanation
We explain the findings and how they may be affecting pain, performance, or injury risk.
Personalized Plan
Your plan is developed around recovery, activity demands, treatment needs, and return-to-play goals.
Sports medicine FAQ.
No. Sports medicine care may be appropriate for competitive athletes, recreational athletes, active adults, weekend warriors, and people returning to exercise after injury.
Care may help identify mobility, strength, control, or movement issues that contribute to recurring strain. Prevention strategies are individualized to the athlete and activity.
Return timing depends on the injury, healing, movement quality, strength, symptom response, and the demands of your sport. Your provider can help guide a gradual progression.
Yes. The clinic may use rehabilitation equipment and guided exercise to support healing, recovery, movement, and return to activity.
Recurring problems may involve unresolved mobility, strength, control, or workload issues. An evaluation can help identify what may be contributing and whether care is appropriate.