What is Sports Therapy?

Sports Therapy is an aspect of healthcare that is specifically concerned with the prevention of injury and the rehabilitation of the patient back to optimum levels of functional, occupational and sports specific fitness, regardless of age and non-sports people.

Sports Therapy is, when looked at standard Physiotherapy, quite a new service in the UK. Sports Therapy is a type of Physiotherapy that is more sports specific and focussed. Professionals within Sports Therapy do a separate university degree on a slightly different vertical to Physiotherapy and look at issues within Sports, dynamic rehabilitation plans specific to getting an athlete back into that given sport.

What can Sports Therapists help with?

Injury Assessment

This is probably one of the most crucial stages in designing an effective treatment plan but more importantly actually understanding the true cause of your injury. Many therapists and companies who offer Injury Rehabilitation will focus on the “pain” and this is not always the best way to start an assessment. The pain is usually the effect of another cause. We need to understand how the injury has occurred first before we can start treating the pain.

Injury Rehabilitation

Injury Rehabilitation takes on many forms and s very much designed for the individual. No two Rehab strategies / plans are the same. This is because each and every one of us are unique. Not just in our body but also in the nature we sustained the injury in the first place.

With this in mind, Injury Rehabilitation is a unique set of exercises, stretching and muscle manipulation (through massage and other techniques) that will lead us to a common goal of recovery and return to sport / fitness. The time in which it takes an individual to recover fully varies and will be discussed within the initial injury assessment. The recovery will be monitored so we can give a good estimate on a date when returning to full activity can be given.

Strength & Conditioning

The final part of your Sports Therapy and treatment plan will be the muscles, tendons, or ligaments through a structured exercise & training plan. We do this through single plain and multi directional rehabilitation techniques.