Get Back to Training, Competition, and the Activities You Enjoy
Sports injuries can happen suddenly or develop gradually from repetitive training, overuse, restricted mobility, muscle imbalance, or compensation from an older injury.
At Godo Chiropractic in Lakeview Chicago, Dr. Jason Godo evaluates the painful area along with joint movement, muscle function, neurological findings, posture, and movement patterns to determine what may be contributing to the problem.
Sports and Activities Dr. Godo Commonly Treats
You do not need to be a professional athlete to benefit from a sports injury evaluation. Many patients simply want to continue exercising, competing, training, or enjoying an activity without recurring pain.
Pickleball and Tennis Injuries
Pickleball and tennis place repeated stress on the shoulder, elbow, forearm, wrist, back, hips, and lower body. Serving, overhead shots, gripping, rotation, lunging, and rapid direction changes can all contribute to sports-related pain.
Common problems may include tennis elbow, pickleball elbow, shoulder pain, rotator cuff irritation, back strain, hip tightness, knee pain, and repetitive overuse symptoms.
Dr. Godo evaluates the painful area together with joint mobility, muscle function, movement mechanics, and compensation patterns that may be contributing to the problem.
Sports Injuries Dr. Godo Commonly Evaluates
Shoulder Injuries
Shoulder pain is common with weightlifting, CrossFit, tennis, pickleball, volleyball, baseball, hockey, and gym training. Evaluation may include shoulder motion, rotator cuff function, shoulder-blade mechanics, muscle strength, joint mobility, and movement compensation.
Elbow & Forearm Pain
Tennis elbow, golfer's elbow, pickleball elbow, lifting-related pain, and throwing-related symptoms may involve forearm muscles, tendons, gripping mechanics, wrist function, and shoulder compensation.
Back & Neck Strains
Lifting, hockey, cycling, golf, baseball, racquet sports, and repetitive athletic movement can produce strains throughout the neck, upper back, mid-back, and lower back.
Hip Pain
Hip symptoms may develop from running, lifting, cycling, skating, squatting, lunging, rotation, throwing mechanics, or compensation involving the lower back, pelvis, knee, or ankle.
Knee Pain & Runner's Knee
Knee pain may involve the knee itself as well as hip control, pelvis mechanics, foot and ankle movement, muscle strength, training volume, and lower-extremity mechanics.
Foot, Ankle & Achilles Problems
Running, pickleball, tennis, jumping, rapid direction changes, and repeated push-off can stress the foot, ankle, calf, and Achilles tendon.
Acute and Chronic Sports Injuries
Acute Sports Injuries
An acute injury may occur during a lift, fall, awkward movement, collision, swing, sprint, jump, throw, or sudden change of direction.
The first priority is determining whether conservative treatment is appropriate or whether imaging or medical evaluation should occur first.
Chronic & Overuse Injuries
Chronic problems often develop gradually from repetitive training, restricted movement, incomplete recovery, muscle imbalance, compensation, training volume, or repeated stress on the same tissues.
$29 Sports Injury Evaluation
The first step is understanding what may be contributing to the injury rather than simply treating the location where you feel pain.
Your evaluation combines Dr. Godo's clinical examination with movement testing and AI-assisted postural analysis when appropriate.
Your evaluation may include:
- Consultation with Dr. Godo
- Review of your injury and training history
- Orthopedic testing when appropriate
- Range-of-motion testing
- Neurological evaluation when indicated
- Functional movement testing
- Postural analysis
- Resisted muscle testing
- Gait evaluation when relevant
- Applied Kinesiology and manual muscle testing
- Assessment of compensation patterns
- Discussion of findings and treatment recommendations
The Painful Area May Not Be the Entire Problem
The body often compensates when a joint, muscle, tendon, or movement pattern is not functioning normally.
Dr. Godo evaluates the injured region together with relevant joints, muscles, neurological findings, movement patterns, and compensation throughout the kinetic chain.
Your Entire Treatment Is Performed by Dr. Godo
At Godo Chiropractic, your evaluation and treatment are performed directly by Dr. Jason Godo rather than being handed off between multiple providers, aides, or technicians.
Depending on your condition, treatment may incorporate:
- Chiropractic adjustments
- Joint mobilization
- Applied Kinesiology
- Manual muscle testing
- Soft-tissue and manual therapy
- Sports therapy
- Mobility work
- Stretching
- Corrective exercise
- Strength and conditioning recommendations
- Performance-focused guidance
Sports Chiropractic for Movement and Performance
You do not necessarily need to wait until pain becomes severe to have your movement evaluated.
Active patients may also seek care for:
- Restricted mobility affecting training
- Recurring tightness in the same area
- Strength differences between sides
- Movement compensation
- Difficulty maintaining lifting mechanics
- Postural changes affecting exercise or sport
- Returning to activity after an older injury
- Repeated strain during training
- Improving mobility for sport-specific movement
What Sports Injury Treatment May Include
Restore Movement
Address restricted joint and soft-tissue motion that may interfere with normal movement or athletic mechanics.
Address Muscle Dysfunction
Evaluate weakness, inhibition, imbalance, or compensation using manual muscle testing and functional assessment.
Improve Movement Patterns
Evaluate lifting, posture, gait, throwing, training, and sport-specific mechanics that may repeatedly stress the injured area.
Build Back Toward Activity
Use appropriate mobility, exercise, strengthening, conditioning, and activity progression to help you return to training or sport.
Not Every Sports Injury Should Be Treated Immediately
Certain injuries require imaging or additional medical evaluation before manual treatment is appropriate.
Imaging or referral may be recommended when there is:
- Significant trauma
- Concern for fracture or dislocation
- Suspected major ligament or tendon disruption
- Severe or rapidly increasing swelling
- Progressive neurological weakness or numbness
- Concern for a serious underlying condition
- Severe inflammatory arthritis affecting the area
- Findings that make conservative manual care inappropriate
When an injury appears outside the scope of chiropractic treatment, Dr. Godo will recommend the appropriate next step.
Why Active Patients Choose Godo Chiropractic
- More than 23 years of clinical experience
- Every evaluation performed by Dr. Jason Godo
- Every treatment performed by Dr. Jason Godo
- No handoff to therapy aides or provider assistants
- Acute and chronic sports injury care
- Applied Kinesiology and manual muscle testing
- Orthopedic and neurological evaluation when indicated
- AI-assisted posture assessment when appropriate
- Manual therapy and chiropractic care in one visit
- Corrective exercise recommendations
- Same-day treatment when clinically appropriate
- Convenient Lakeview Chicago location
Frequently Asked Questions About Sports Chiropractic
Where can I find a sports chiropractor in Lakeview Chicago?
Godo Chiropractic is located in Lakeview Chicago and provides individualized evaluation and care for sports injuries involving the shoulder, elbow, neck, back, hip, knee, foot, ankle, and other musculoskeletal complaints.
What does a sports chiropractor treat?
Sports chiropractors commonly evaluate musculoskeletal injuries involving joints, muscles, tendons, movement patterns, and mechanical dysfunction. Dr. Godo frequently evaluates shoulder, elbow, neck, back, hip, knee, and other sports-related complaints.
Do I need to be an athlete to see a sports chiropractor?
No. Many patients are recreational athletes, gym members, weekend warriors, runners, cyclists, racquet-sport players, or active adults who want to continue exercising without recurring pain.
Do you treat pickleball injuries?
Yes. Dr. Godo evaluates pickleball-related shoulder pain, elbow pain, back strain, knee pain, Achilles problems, and other musculoskeletal complaints. Learn more about pickleball injuries in Chicago .
Do you treat baseball and throwing injuries?
Yes. Evaluation may include the shoulder, elbow, rotator cuff, shoulder blade, upper back, trunk, hip rotation, and movement factors that influence throwing mechanics.
Can you evaluate a sports injury that just happened?
Yes. Dr. Godo evaluates both acute and chronic injuries. With an acute injury, the first priority is determining whether conservative care is appropriate or whether imaging or medical evaluation should occur first.
Can chiropractic care help shoulder pain from weightlifting?
Some lifting-related shoulder complaints involve joint mobility, rotator cuff function, shoulder-blade mechanics, muscle imbalance, or movement compensation. An examination determines whether chiropractic and manual treatment may be appropriate.
Do you treat tennis elbow or golfer's elbow?
Dr. Godo evaluates elbow pain together with forearm muscle function, wrist mechanics, gripping activity, shoulder function, and other factors that may contribute to repetitive strain.
Do you treat runner's knee?
Evaluation may include the knee, hip, pelvis, ankle, foot, gait, muscle strength, movement mechanics, and training factors that may contribute to symptoms.
Does the $29 evaluation include treatment?
The $29 evaluation includes consultation, examination, movement evaluation, appropriate assessment procedures, and discussion of findings and recommendations. Treatment is separate unless specifically stated.
Can treatment begin during my first visit?
Treatment may begin during the first appointment when Dr. Godo's examination indicates that conservative chiropractic care is safe and appropriate.
Are same-day appointments available?
Same-day appointments may be available depending on the office schedule. Call (773) 525-0007 for current availability.
Sports Chiropractor Near You in Chicago
Godo Chiropractic is located at 3118 N. Sheffield Avenue, Unit 1S, Chicago, Illinois 60657.
We provide sports chiropractic and sports injury care for patients from:
- Lakeview
- Lincoln Park
- Wrigleyville
- Northalsted
- Roscoe Village
- Uptown
- River North
- Other Chicago neighborhoods
Schedule Your $29 Sports Injury Evaluation
Whether your injury happened recently or has been interfering with training for months, start by determining what may actually be contributing to the problem.
Schedule online or call Godo Chiropractic with questions.
3118 N. Sheffield Avenue, Unit 1S
Chicago, IL 60657
Individual results vary. Information on this page is educational and is not a substitute for individualized medical evaluation, diagnosis, or emergency care.
