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Effective Sport Injury Rehabilitation
- Strengthen key muscles: Targeted exercises are used to return your pre-injury function.
- Improve flexibility, mobility, and performance: Specific stretches and related exercise prescription are used to effectively address your mobility restrictions.
- Avoid poor training techniques: Reduces your susceptibility as an athlete to sport related injuries.
- Prevent recurrence of injury: Physiotherapy trains your body to be better prepared to cope with stress and avoid recurring injury episodes.
- Helps achieve peak athletic performance: Coming back from an injury, achieve peak athletic performance.
Sport injury rehabilitation is a multidisciplinary approach designed to help you, the athlete, return your body to its normal, pre-injury function and get you back to playing the game you love, as soon as possible.
In sports, injury is almost inevitable. It can be a result of overuse of a group of muscles and bones, bad training and form, or just plain old bad luck.
Even if you are engaged in non-contact sports, you are still at risk of a sport related injury, although not quite as high as risks associated with contact sports.
Effective physiotherapy and rehabilitation is vital to getting you back in the game and preventing the recurrence of the same injury, not to mention lowering the possibility of a new injury.
The success of your therapy, however, depends on the adherance of you, the athlete, to any structured physiotherapy program.
Prescription exercises are performed in order to strengthen your muscles, improve flexibility and mobility. You can also expect to learn how to implement proper breathing patterns, avoid poor training techniques, fitness counseling, as well as prevention of future incidents of an old injury.
In the Epidemiology of Athletic Injuries released by the College of Human Medicine of Michigan State University stated that: “Accurate and reliable injury rate data would better indicate the types of injuries or situations where injuries occur that could be positively affected by appropriate rule changes, equipment, changes, or suggested changes in coaching technique.”
In another study, the compliance of the injured athletes in the rehabilitation process was investigated and it was revealed that practical guidelines and specific strategies, increase effective communication and active listening, encourage social support and positive outlook as well as pain management can improve the compliance to a sports injury rehabilitation program.
In a recent survey by The Football Associated in the United Kingdom, it was discovered that more than half of injuries were sustained without contact of a fellow player, but rather during activities such as landing, sprinting, and slowing down. It is important that proper form is practiced so that injury from these everyday activities does not happen. PT Health sport injury rehabilitation however, can help athletes, coaches, and trainers address the different aspects of injury when it does occur, and provide the most targeted and appropriate treatment, and prevention strategies.
Comprehensive sport injury rehabilitation involves alternative training wherein the methods used are modified so as not to stress the injury, but still progress within the rehabilitation process. A gradual return to full training can then be advised by the therapist when appropriate. This is a crucial point and there must be an open communication between athlete and coach to avoid training too hard, too soon. Once the athlete fully recovers, steps are taken to prevent repetition of your injury.
How long is sport injury rehabilitation? This depends on the extent and severity of the injury as well as the therapy method used. Compliance of the injured athlete will also affect the length and success of the program.
What are the predictors of adherence to a rehabilitation program? There are six independent variables which can help determine an athlete’s adherence to the sports injury rehabilitation: social support, self-motivation, perceived exertion, pain tolerance, scheduling, and environment.
Is sport injury rehabilitation covered by my insurance provider? Most insurance providers cover the cost of sports injury rehabilitation; however, it is still important to check with your individual health care provider for the terms and conditions of coverage.
Who are at greatest risk for sports injuries? Although, a famous athlete who sustained a minor injury can make the news, anyone who plays a sport is not immune to sports injuries. There are three groups who are especially vulnerable are children and adolescents, middle-aged athletes, and women athletes.
Also, athletes who play contact sports are at higher risk than those who engage in noncontact games.
Where do I get help? First step would be to stop whatever you are doing and apply first aid. Inform your coach. Depending on the injury, you may need to see a doctor specializing in sports medicine who can then give you diagnosis and treatment. Injury treatment may range from simple immobilizing of the affected area to sports injury rehabilitation to surgery. A PT Health free consultation can help to point you in the right direction.
Many sports injuries can be prevented if proper precautions are taken in the first place. Once injury is sustained, administration of first aid (usually R.I.C.E) is very important since it helps deal with the pain and immediate swelling.
Once you intiate a sports injury rehabilitation program, your compliance to the treatment is very important in your recovery. Follow the advice of your doctor and therapist. The key to full a recovery is gradual and progressive exercises. Do not do exercises too hard, too soon.
5 Reasons to consider PT Health Sport Injury Rehabilitation:
Strengthens the muscles: Exercises are performed to slowly bring back the pre-injury condition of the affected area. Although training is not as rigorous than before the injury, it is important that physical fitness is maintained throughout the rehabilitation, to minimize performance loss.
Improves flexibility and mobility: Stretches and other exercises are important to correct the mobility restrictions in the body. Physiotherapy is done not only to reduce pain, bring back pre-injury condition of the body but also work on areas of poor performance.
Avoid poor training techniquess: Training technique can make an impact on the susceptibility of an athlete to injuries. Poor training methods is one of the more common causes of sports injuries. During rehabilitation, exercises are performed to compensate and correct poor training techniques prior to the injury.
Prevents recurrence of injury: Sport rehabilitation injury prevention trains the body to be better prepared to cope with injury and avoid another episode. Once is enough when it comes to injuries and recurring incidents may lead to permanent disability to play your sport.
Helps achieve peak athletic performance: Coming back from an injury, you can still achieve your peak athletic performance if you have undergone sports injury rehabilitation. After a full recovery, you are able to recognize the pitfalls that can lead to another injury so that another rehab session is avoided.
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