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Description: Athletes want to optimise their performance and prevent injuries, and they typically explore many different strategies to give them a competitive advantage in sports events. Worldwide, manual therapies and chiropractic have been increasingly utilised in sports to help elite and masters athletes with pain management, return to sports and rehabilitation after an injury, injury prevention, enhancement of performance, and to recover faster after competitions. Pre-competition chiropractic manual therapies (CMT) may be a way to identify and prevent a potential injury and to contribute to enhancing sports performance in master athletes. Although there is vast research addressing the role of the best and common practices of chiropractic in older adults, none of them, thus far, have included the ageing athletic population until now. Therefore, the aim of this project is to explore and increase the understanding of the aged 60+ athlete’s perceptions from the chiropractic encounter, the biomechanical and sports performance experiences, and its potential short-term functional impacts on plantar flexor muscle strength and accuracy motor skill performances.