Could mouthguards boost sports performance?

Can Wearing a Sports Mouthguard Improve Athletic Performance?

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Could wearing a mouthguard boost your sports performance? Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you are playing sports and failed to perform as well as you wanted?

You may be surprised to find that it was because you were playing without a mouthguard. It is important to note that you need to use a high quality mouthguard that can adequately do the job of protecting your health.

How does it work?

You may be equally surprised to learn that if you visit a Campbell dentist and get a mouthguard that is designed specifically for the purpose of playing contact sports, you can actually improve your sports performance in some cases. There are a number of reasons for this.

  • The most obvious reason is that you are able to play more aggressively when you no longer have to worry if the lack of a mouthguard will cause significant injury while you are participating in contact sports.
  • However, it does not end there. There is research that suggests that using a mouthguard can actually act as a barrier that prevents concussions and other types of head injuries. The thought process behind this is that the mouthguard absorbs much of the impact when you are hit while playing sports. As a result, the reduction in the number of concussions and other types of head or neck injuries that may be present as a result of using these mouthguards can drastically improve your sports performance later on.
  • Studies have also shown that wearing a mouthguard during exercise can help increase your endurance, and reduce muscle cramping. How ? When you wear a mouth guard, you don’t clench down on your teeth as much as you would without one. When you are not clenching your airway is more open allowing you to breath easier during a workout.

Play better, play safer

It is vitally important that you protect the health of your teeth while you are playing contact sports. It is even more important that you protect your overall physical health. The ability to protect all of these things by using a single mouthguard cannot be overstated. The fact that it may potentially boost your sports performance is just one more reason to use a high quality mouthguard. It is essentially a single tool that allows you to accomplish a large number of important goals at one time. It simply makes good sense to use a mouthguard when you are participating in contact sports. It is one more way that you have an opportunity to protect your health.

Learn more

If you would like to know more about how a sports mouthguard can improve your athletic performance and proect your health, ask me a question and I’ll reply by tomorrow.

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