Aligned Athlete & Chiropractic Journey

 Dr. Eric Gorman is a second generation sports performance Doctor of Chiropractic. He grew up watching his father, Dr. Richard Gorman, provide performance optimizing care to Olympic and World Champion Gold medalists in Track & Field.  He currently serves as the team chiropractor for the Tampa Bay Rowdies USL professional soccer team. He has a passion for optimizing human performance in the aspiring and elite athlete.

 For many athletes, in addition to their nutritional and sports training protocols, chiropractic care has played an important role in helping them achieve peak performance levels and as a part of their lifestyle. Many of the MLS players utilize chiropractic care and many of the teams have chiropractors that they work with directly. Dr. Monte Layton, for example, has been the official chiropractor of the Real Salt Lake since its inaugural season in 2005. Dr. Layton, like many other chiropractors, takes care of top athletes in many sports including PGA tour players, Olympians and the Utah Jazz.

If you want to improve the overall strength of your core and general stability, we highly recommend testing your body. We’ve provided a guide for you to work with while testing different aspects of your body. Flexibility, endurance, and strength are three important components to staying healthy for 100 years.  

 When you put extreme demands on your body, you want and need your body to respond with precision. Athletes of all ages and ability levels utilize chiropractic care to keep them performing at peak levels mentally and physically while minimizing injuries and recovery times. Connection, Coordination, and Speed Research with athletes and Chiropractic shows that “a single adjustment has the power to improve speed and coordination throughout the entire body.”  That means the brain-body connection is working much better than before the adjustment.

 Medical politics grew tougher and in 1907, practicing medicine without a license  led to many chiropractors, including D. D. Palmer, being jailed. When asked why  he didn’t just pay the fine instead, D.D. responded, “I am not in a cell for lack of  principal but for an abundance of principle.” Palmer was practicing chiropractic,  not medicine. 

 The AMA was found guilty in United States District Court for having conspired to destroy the chiropractic profession. Evidence presented during the trial showed how the AMA and other defendants actively but covertly tried to:  · Undermine chiropractic educational institutions. · Hide evidence of the uses and benefits of chiropractic care. · Undercut insurance programs for patients of chiropractors. · Subvert government inquiries into the efficacy of chiropractic care.