Playing an active sport we love is something we look forward to after a draining day at work, and if you’re an athlete, sports is your career, your passion. But all of this comes to a halt when you face an injury during the sport. The sports physiotherapist's primary role is to treat and rehab injuries, as well as to support their performance through injury prevention, maintenance, and recovery interventions.
As we love the sport, be it casual sport or a career in it, we can’t let injuries come our way. Therefore, we have Sports Injury Therapy to help you recover from such an injury and get back to playing it.
When we are engaged in active physical exertion such as playing a sport, our body has to function more than it normally does. This necessitates the body to be strong so that it can handle the extra strain put on it while playing the sport. This extra strain in turn could lead to one having an injury during the sport.
How do Sports Injuries happen?
Athletes have Prehabilitation Programs that help their bodies prepare for the sport and their diet and exercises centered around it. Even so, they are still likely to suffer an injury from overuse. This being said, people who play sports as a pastime or only on weekends have higher chances of experiencing such injuries. This is because, as a result of the person's regular, easygoing lifestyle, their body must endure extra stress to play the sport.
It doesn’t matter if you are an athlete or an active person who plays sports on weekends or as a pastime. Injuries are something that can happen anytime during the sport. These injuries are termed Sports Related Injuries as they are more commonly seen in people actively engaged in sports.
Since sports usually involve the movement of our limbs, these injuries are mainly related to our arms and legs. Muscle strain, ACL injury, MCL injury, tennis elbow, and stress fracture are among the other common sports-related injuries.
Knee injuries, sprains, neck splints, strains, swollen muscles and shoulder dislocations are among the most common sports injuries, according to the National Institutes of Health. Injuries must be treated properly to ensure the athlete's safety.
What does a Sports Physiotherapist do?
During sports, our body functions at a capacity far more than what it normally operates at. This means an equally intense strain on the most actively functioning part. But this, as we saw before, results in an injury. Since it is important to tackle the injury efficiently and quickly get back into the game, we have Sports Physiotherapy.
Physiotherapy for Sports-Related Injuries is similar to that of general physiotherapy, except that it differs slightly. Our Sports Physiotherapists, mainly focuses on the exercise, physical activities, and techniques that increases the functioning capacity of the body under stress. This requires a higher level of training, which also is very sports-specific.
A few therapies we provide under sports physiotherapy are fermentation, electrotherapy, dry needling, cupping, myofascial release massage, sports-specific training, etc. Such techniques help us to treat the injury in a comparatively shorter time, making you ready for the sport just like before.
Guidance is given about off-season training, in-season training for the particular sport, as well as training in ergonomics and functional mobility.
Since sports usually involves the movement of our limbs, these injuries are mainly related to our arms and our legs. To name a few, muscle strain, ACL injury, MCL injury, tennis elbow, stress fracture are among the other common sports-related injury.
