Physiotherapy is a form of treatment that uses movement routines to achieve a desired result. Whether that result is injury prevention or recovery from a sports injury, it can help you play your favourite sport pain-free. Let’s take a closer look at how sports physiotherapy can work to prevent and treat your injuries.
Decrease Swelling and Stiffness
The initial phase of healing and recovery includes the inflammatory phase of healing. This is when your tissues experience swelling, heat, and stiffness in the injured area. Working with a physiotherapist can help to reduce the stiffness of the joint and optimize your healing process. They may also provide you with a movement routine, bracing, elevation, compression, and icing/heating, which can optimize your recovery and get you back to your sport sooner.
No More Recurring Strain Injuries
Recurring strain injuries happen when smaller sports injuries become worse as you return to a more intense level of activity before you’ve recovered properly. Repetitive strain injuries can happen in pretty much any sport where the level of intensity increases but occur most often in activities with repetitive movement.
Sports physiotherapy can help re-align your muscles and connective tissues, massage out knots and pain points, and restore proper blood flow to the injured part, which can eliminate repetitive stress injuries.
Get Relief from Tendinitis
Tendinitis is a form of injury to the tendon, which is the tissue that connects your muscle to your bone. These injuries are related to repeated microtrauma with not enough recovery. Common sports activities that cause tendinitis include running, jumping, or throwing.
Physiotherapy can help you recover from these injuries more quickly and it can even help prevent tendinitis from occurring in the future.
Increase Your Range of Movement
Pain and discomfort can lead to you limiting your activities and your range of motion. That leads to loss of mobility along with discomfort and tightness. Your joints and muscles will recover as you heal, a process that can take anywhere from 2 to 12 weeks, depending on the severity of the injury.
Sports physiotherapy can help to prevent injury and improve the healing process. Therapies and workouts can improve your range of movement and alleviate pain, helping you return to normal activities more quickly.
Tips for Athletes
For athletes, here are a few words of advice if you’re considering sports physiotherapy:
- See a sports therapist as soon as you can after the injury. Taking care of it early can help reduce the severity of the injury and improve your recovery process.
- Be honest and don’t try to “tough it out”. Your sports physiotherapist needs to know the correct details about your symptoms and goals so they can put you on the correct treatment course.
- Follow your treatment instructions carefully. That will ensure you get the most out of it.
Call Us for Sports Physiotherapy
White Rock Orthopaedic & Sports Physiotherapy Clinic provides sports physiotherapy to help you recover from your injury and return to play as soon as possible. We offer strong medical support that delivers aid for sprains, joint injuries, and strains. Many of our patients are referred to us by orthopedic surgeons, general practitioners, and other healthcare providers throughout the Lower Mainland and even as far as Whistler.
If you’re suffering from a sports injury and want to get back to playing form, give us a call and book an appointment. We look forward to helping you.
