The Role of Physiotherapy with Sports Injuries
Many people aren’t clear about the role of Physiotherapist in sports. There are several sports injuries known to benefit from physiotherapy from ligament sprains to muscle strains, fractures and dislocations.
The main role of a physiotherapist is not only to diagnose and treat acute injuries, but also prevent them from occurring through the process of specific screening.
The Physiotherapists three main focuses are: preventing injury, restoring optimal function, and contributing to enhancing sport performance.
- Prevention: This includes focus on risk management around potential injury. Knowing an athlete’s sport and medical history helps the therapist design strategies to reduce the risk of injury.
- Injury or Illness Recovery: This involves a clinical evaluation, diagnosis and treatment plan strategies around returning the athlete to optimal performance are coordinated with minimizing the risk of re-injury.
- Enhancing Performance: A physiotherapist can be part of the athlete’s support team in helping to develop strategies to enhance an athlete’s physical capacity.
- Advisory Capacity: Physiotherapists play an important role with individuals and organizations, supporting them in promoting safe and healthy activity.
Physiotherapists use a variety of treatment interventions:
- Cold therapy – helps to minimize pain and inflammation such using things such as ice packs and ice massage.
- Heat Therapy – helps to improve blood flow to speed healing, softens tight tissues and relieves pain using moist heat packs.
- Electrotherapy Modalities – like Therapeutic Ultrasound, TENS, IFT helps prevent muscle atrophy, assists in pain relief, reduce soreness, reduce swelling, helps in healing process.
- Range of Motion Exercises – help to increase or maintain flexibility and to reduce stiffness.
- Strengthening Exercises – are an important part of the rehabilitation process to build strength and prepare for return to previous or better performance levels.
- Soft Tissue Mobilization/Massage – help to relax tight muscles, ligaments, fascia, reduce swelling & tightness.
- Kinesiology Tapping– helps in instant pain relief, recovery from bruises/contusions, allows athletes to remain active while injured, supports injured muscles, speedier recovery of overused muscles.
- Joint Mobilisation & Glides– helps to relieve painful tension, stiffness in joints, reduce pain & improve joint range of motion.
- Stretching tips– provide tips for warm up/cool down, teaching proper stretching techniques to reduce muscle soreness, increase mental & physical relaxation, reduce muscle tension.
- Balance & Co-ordination Exercises –helps in building fitness, prevent injuries, increases core strength.
- Shockwave Therapy – helps in stimulating healing process, quicker pain relief, speedy recovery, helps in chronic pain.
With our specialized treatment programs & assessments we help you solving your musculoskeletal conditions and sports injuries, but also seeing you progress and achieve the desired results.
Make Physiotherapy as A Standard Routine in Preventing Sports Injuries from Occurring
For more information on how our physiotherapy can help you, contact us today!
Pooja Physiotherapy & Healthcare Center
Blk 77 Indus road #01-521S’160077
Call now@ 6384 5452 or Whatsapp@ 8322 3371 or
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