Sports injury treatment makes up a great deal of the treatment given to patients at The Physicaltherapy Centre. Many musculoskeletal complaints arise from injuries sustained in sports. Each year we see athletic performance draw closer to the limits of human potential. Understanding the biomechanical principles involved helps us to prevent injury and restore functional integrity and stability through rehabilitation.
Sports injury treatment is designed to achieve optimal results for patients with a quicker recovery time. The team at The Physicaltherapy Centre offers a wealth of experience to address your sporting injury and see you return to activity safely and as fast as possible.
The Chiropractor, Tom, combines chiropractic adjustments to realign the spine and help restore mobility. He is also fully certified in Active Release Technique [ART], Graston Technique and dry needling, all of which can be used on injured muscles, tendons and ligaments and returning them to normality. Our physiotherapy and massage therapists can also greatly assist your recovery from intense training or playing sessions.
If you have suffered from a sports injury recently, proper rehabilitation is necessary to result in a healthy return to an active lifestyle.
Goals of Treatment and Rehabilitation
- protect the injured tissues to allow healing and to control the early inflammatory phase.
- rehabilitate flexibility, strength, proprioception, and muscle
imbalance, and control physical activities with the aid of taping and
splinting. - sport-specific activities must be tested to ensure the athlete can return to sport safely.
If proper rehabilitation is not undertaken, the athlete may be competing too soon, with residual instability, proprioceptive disturbance, and muscle weakness and imbalances. Individual programs must be planned and implemented for each athlete. This would include sport-specific exercises, adaptation to new postures to correct muscle imbalances, sports taping (dynamic or rigid) as well as a home exercise program. Overtraining must be very carefully avoided in all of these phases, and training is monitored so that full activity does not occur before full recovery has taken place.
It is obvious that prevention is better than cure and your therapist will always advise you on how to prevent recurrence of the injury during your return to sport.
Helpful Tips for Athletes:
- never train hard when stiff from the previous effort.
- introduce new activities very gradually.
- allow lots of time for warming up and cooling off.
- train on different surfaces, using the right footwear.
- shower and change immediately after the cool down.
- stay away from infectious areas when training or competing very hard.
- be extremely fussy about hygiene in hot weather.
- monitor fatigue and reduce training.
Please call your therapist at The Physicaltherapy Centre on 02 9922 6116 or visit our clinic at “Walker House”, Level 3, Suite 304, 161 Walker Street in North Sydney for more information.
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