Sports Injuries
Have you ever wondered why you see professional sports people return to their chosen sports so quickly? Do they have super human powers of recovery?
In reality the reason athletes often seem to be able to return to action so soon after injury is that with the help of physiotherapists, they manage their injuries in the ideal way. It is part of the injured professional athletes job to get themselves better and they have a whole host medical personnel to call on if needed for advice and treatment along the way.
The truth is we all have roughly the same ability to heal at a similar rate. The bodies natural healing processes can't really be sped up, but you can maximise its potential to heal by the way you go about managing your injuries.
Early assessment and diagnosis is essential to this process. Even those niggling injuries that you think will get better on their own would benefit from being assessed and treated. For example there are occasions where the marathon runner that suffers from some "calf tightness" maybe able to run through it initially. In this case the underlying problem is likely to be biomechanical and this can potentially lead to more problems than just the calf. These problems normally build up gradually and the longer you leave them, the longer they may take to unravel. In an acute injury, the way you manage things in the first days and weeks can significantly reduce the length of time before you enter the sporting arena again.
Once you have reduced the symptoms of your injury and are looking at returning to your chosen sport you should also consider injury prevention strategies. Physiotherapy again plays a big part in this and such strategies may include things such as balance retraining, exercises to maintain flexibility, "core stability" exercises or perhaps changes to training techniques or regimes.
Whatever your injury, don't spend longer than you need to on the sidelines. Call us at Action Physiotherapy and let us help you get back into your chosen sport.
