Sports Injury Recovery Program in Lighthouse Point, FL — Get Back to the Game Faster

South Florida is an active place. Golf courses in Boca Raton and Deerfield Beach are full year-round. Pickleball courts across Broward County are packed every morning. The tennis community from Lighthouse Point to Coral Springs is serious. And the fishing, boating, and beach lifestyle means people are physically active in ways that put real stress on joints and soft tissue.

When those activities lead to injury — tennis elbow that won't heal, a rotator cuff that keeps flaring up, a plantar fascia that makes every step on the pickleball court painful — Dr. Carol McNamara Krauss offers the Sports Injury Recovery Program at McNamara Chiropractic Center in Lighthouse Point.

The program uses Class IV laser therapy and shockwave therapy to accelerate healing in sports-injured tissue, reduce the chronicity that sidelines active people for months, and get you back to the activities that matter.

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Why Sports Injuries Become Chronic

Acute sports injuries — a sudden twist, a fall, a collision — are not the most common presentation in this practice. More common are overuse injuries: the cumulative load on tendons, bursae, and joints from repetitive motion patterns.

Golfer's elbow, tennis elbow, rotator cuff tendinopathy, plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendinopathy — these are all tendinopathies. And the common failure mode is the same: the initial inflammatory response resolves, but the tendon never fully remodels. Chronic degenerative changes accumulate. The person keeps playing through mild pain until the condition is severe enough to actually stop them.

By the time most patients come in, the injury has been present for months or years. Standard anti-inflammatory approaches have been tried and provide only partial relief. This is exactly the presentation that laser and shockwave are built for.

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Sports Injuries We Commonly Treat

Golf injuries

• Golfer's elbow (medial epicondylitis) — the forearm flexor strain from grip and impact
• Lower back pain from rotational loading
• Wrist tendinopathy
• Hip flexor pain

Pickleball injuries (increasingly common in South FL)

• Tennis/pickleball elbow — lateral epicondylitis from the dinking motion
• Achilles tendinopathy from the court movement pattern
• Knee pain from the stop-start movement
• Rotator cuff irritation from overhead shots

Tennis injuries

• Lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow) — the most common tennis injury
• Rotator cuff impingement and degeneration
• Patellar tendinopathy

General athletic injuries

• Ankle sprains with ligament involvement
• IT band syndrome
• Hamstring tendinopathy
• Shoulder impingement
• Plantar fasciitis

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The Treatment Protocol

Class IV Laser Therapy

At therapeutic intensities, laser photobiomodulation drives collagen synthesis in damaged tendons, reduces chronic inflammation, improves local circulation, and accelerates the remodeling phase of tissue repair. For sports injuries where the healing process has stalled, laser essentially restarts the repair cascade at the cellular level.

Laser is completely painless. Sessions targeting the injury site typically run 8–12 minutes.

Shockwave Therapy

Focused acoustic shockwaves trigger a "controlled microtrauma" effect — stimulating fibroblast activity, neovascularization, and new collagen production in tissue that has stopped healing on its own. For chronic tendinopathies (the most common sports injury pattern), shockwave is the most evidence-supported non-surgical treatment available.

Shockwave can be briefly uncomfortable but is short in duration. For many chronic tendinopathy patients, the results are transformative.

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About Dr. McNamara

Dr. Carol McNamara Krauss, DC, has treated active South Floridians since 1986. Her Lighthouse Point practice sees golfers from Boca Raton country clubs, pickleball players from Pompano Beach courts, and tennis players from Fort Lauderdale and Deerfield Beach — people who need real resolution, not just management.

Florida Chiropractic Physician license CH5281, active through 2028.

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What Patients Say

"Dr. McNamara is hands-down one of the best chiropractors I've ever worked with. She listens, she cares, and her treatments are highly effective. I've referred multiple friends and family members." — Tatiana Lee-Chee

"Highly recommend — Doc and Dawn are amazing! The whole team makes you feel welcome and taken care of every single visit." — Ashlyn Merchant

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FAQs

How quickly can I expect results? Acute presentations often show improvement within 4–6 sessions. Chronic tendinopathies of 6+ months may take 8–12 sessions for full benefit.

Can I keep playing my sport during treatment? Depends on the injury and severity. Dr. McNamara will advise on activity modification during treatment. In many cases, patients can continue activity at reduced intensity.

Is this covered by insurance? Many plans cover these therapies. Call (954) 943-1100 to verify.

How do I get started? Call (954) 943-1100 or contact us online. Also see Plantar Fasciitis Treatment, Shoulder Restoration Program, and Shockwave Therapy for more detail on specific conditions.