Physiotherapy for Sports Injuries
A sports therapist is a healthcare professional with the knowledge, skills, and ability to assess, treat and, where appropriate, refer on for specialist advice and intervention to assist patients back to full function. The main components of the consultation process can be separated into four main areas
- S – Subject assessment
- O – Objective assessment
- A – Analysis of assessment
- P – Plan
Sports injuries occur depending on sports profile. There are certain sports that require good endurance of both the cardiovascular system and the muscular system, such as badminton, squash and tennis. Sports such as baseball, softball and golf put a lot of stress on the upper limbs, elbows and hands. Soccer is prone to acute injuries. Swimming would be good on reducing the risk of muscular injury.
What are the common sports injuries and causes:
The common causes of sports injuries include failure to warm up, overtraining, genetic factors, lack of flexibility and joint laxity. Common sports injuries:
Sprain – It occurs when the ligament is injured – overstretched or broken. Ligaments are fibrous, connective tissues that connect bones and provide stability within joints. They also limit the movement of the limbs.
Strain – It involves a direct injury to a muscle or tendon. Tendons are fibrous connective tissues that connect muscles to bones, allowing force to be exerted on the bones to create movement. Tendinopathy is pain caused by overuse or repetitive motion.
Blister – When there is constant friction, burns and skin reactions, such as allergic.
Splinter – Objects that become embedded under the skin such as tiny pieces of wood or glass.
Knee Injury
As a sports person, there is a need to perform strength training exercise to help the sports person with the necessary control and power. Strength training exercises include barbell squats, single-leg squats and straight-leg raises.
Mobility exercises include neck rotation, neck side flexion and wrist rotation. Static stretches are essential aspect of injury prevention and are also helpful in recovery from injury. Some static stretches are scart stretch, upper-back stretch and cat stretch.
Plyometric exercises increase your speed, power and flexibility and are ideal for most sports. Some plyometric exercises are sideways hurdle jump, box jump up and bounding. Testing exercies are practical means of monitoring the recovery rate and overall development. They improve power, speed, reach, range of motion, balance and proprioception during rehabilitation.
To help prevent injury, we must have sufficient mobility to perform movements in your chosen activity.
Sports physiotherapists recognize the significant injuries and indicate the immediate first-aid treatment of various injuries. There would be a list of different rehabilitation exercises and if necessary, hydrotherapy or electrotherapy can be recommended.
How our Sports Physiotherapists can help
Our sports physiotherapists give treatment and rehabilitation of injuries and to provide performance support through injury prevention, maintenance and recovery interventions. We provide:
- Manual therapy that involves soft tissue work and joint mobilization.
- Provide performance support through injury prevention, maintenance and recovery interventions
- Sports rehabilitation that treats people of all ages who have musculoskeletal system pain, injury or
- Patient education that promotes adaptation, emphasis abilities, treatment as a whole person instead of particular sport injury, time to heal and people centered care.
