Sports Therapy

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Injury Healing

  • There is a considerable difference between an injury healing, and the individual being strong enough, both physically and mentally, to make a successful return to their chosen sport. Specific exercises in the form of rehabilitation will help bridge this gap, and therefore must be included in every treatment programme, so as to aid the patient to gain maximum recovery.

    Who should have Sports Therapy ?
  • Anyone with a sports related injury can come along for a course of treatment and or rehabilitation, which will aid in your recovery if you have:
    • Sustained a recent injury
    • Joint, ligament or soft tissue injury. E.g. sprains or pulls
    • A long term injury that will just not go away
    • Pre and post operative care requirements
    • Specific rehabilitation needs
    • Sports-specific or team requirements
    • Pre-habilitation programme

What will happen?
  • A full examination and assessment which is then followed by your own tailored rehabilitation programme, designed with the aim to return you to full fitness and your chosen sport as soon as possible.
  • Your programme will built around successful rehabilitation techniques, as used throughout the world of professional sport and your plan will be discussed and agreed with you before the treatment begins.

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 ability.
It utilises the principles of sport and exercise science incorporating physiological and pathological processes to prepare the participant for training, competition and where applicable, work.

A Sports Therapist, who is a Member of The Society of Sports Therapists is an allied health professional who has the knowledge, skills and ability to:
  • utilise sports and exercise principles to optimise performance, preparation and injury prevention programmes
  • provide the immediate care of injuries and basic life support in a recreational, training, occupational & competitive environment
  • assess, treat, rehabilitate and, where and if appropriate, refer on for specialist advice and intervention.
  • provide appropriate soft tissue interventions in a sport & exercise context
  • plan and implement appropriate rehabilitation and return to training/work programmes

Key areas of competency
  1. Prevention
  2. Recognition & Evaluation
  3. Management Treatment & Referral
  4. Rehabilitation
  5. Education & Professional Practice Issues

Within each of these areas, Society Members and specifically those at Graduate level, are trained and educated in principles that have sound practical and evidence based philosophies with solid sport and exercise science foundations.

As such, Sports Therapists who are Members of The Society of Sports Therapists are required to meet clearly defined competency levels which cover the breadth of the above areas and gives them the knowledge, skills and ability to work at all levels of the sport and exercise continuum.
We base our success on recommendation and believe that word of mouth is the best form of advertising and thus we have built up our clinics on the relationships we have formed over many years and generations of sports person, and the personal service that we provide.​

​Acute Injury​
Individuals can often be confused as to whether their injury is Acute or Chronic. It is important to understand the difference as they need to be treated in different ways. So here is an easy way to remember:

An Acute Injury is a one off injury with a distinct mechanism of trauma eg twisting your ankle.
A Chronic Injury is a longstanding problem or one subjected to repetitive injury.

Acute Injury Immediate Management​
Recovery Stages
  • Compression
  • Elevation
  • Cooling
  • Reduce activities and modify rest
  • protect the injured area
  • remember DO NO ARM

No Heat
No Alcohol
No Running
No Massage

Modified rest, in this instance, does not mean doing nothing at all. It means modifying activities to prevent further trauma or re-injury. This is important as re-injury would change the physiological responses and increase the risk of it becoming a chronic problem. Therefore, a sensible approach to reducing activities must be undertaken and the advice of gently moving the injured limb through its pain free range, as described previously, should be followed. For the remainder of the time the injured part should be elevated when and wherever possible.

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