Blaine Bugg, a chiropractor, treats barrel racer Lynette Brodoway at the Calgary Stampede's rodeo medical clinic on July 4, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
"The Americans and Brazilians are astonished they have access to a high-level functioning sport medicine team that does manual treatment, that they can work on bruises, bumps, strains and sprains and have success.The 10-day rodeo starting Friday offers $1.85 million in prize money to 270 contestants in bull riding, bareback, saddle bronc, steer wrestling, tie-down roping and barrel racing.
So the job of Bugg, who is a member of the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress, and his team is to help the athletes compete safely and to the best of their ability in Calgary, but also teach them what they can do when they leave the city to manage their injuries, aches and pains, and keep riding and roping.
"How strong can I make this, but still functional? You have to protect that body part with that in mind," Fredine said. "If I tape a bull rider's elbow too tight, so I'm trying to limit extension, but if I tape it too tight, it's going to pull his head down, and he's probably going to hit head-to-head with the bull."
"This time of year guys have been probably going for 10 days in a row and then they're going up to Calgary, so they're pretty broken and bruised," said bull rider Jake Gardner of Fort St. John, B.C. Bugg's team provides medical and therapeutic services at 250 other rodeo performances during the season working out of a mobile trailer.
"The massage therapists and chiropractors are busy the entire time," Fredine said. "They have someone on their table every single second of that performance.
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