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Sports Injury Management & Rehabilitation
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Sports Injury Management & Rehabilitation
Sports injuries are common, and depending on severity they may require a specialist review – however, your physiotherapist will make this determination after your comprehensive exam. Proper healing time is crucial to restoring a person’s health and athletic ability after experiencing an injury, and some form of therapy is often needed to achieve this result quickly and completely.
Injury management and rehabilitation must be carefully planned, to ensure that the affected areas are treated and strengthened in the safest possible way. Without trained therapists to oversee and guide the recovery process, the risk of improperly healing or re-aggravating an injury will remain high.
Sports-related injuries occur with different levels of severity. Many are muscle- or bone-related, such as sprained ankles, pulled muscles or torn ligaments, dislocated joints, elbow or knee injuries, or hip strains. More serious conditions can also occur in the sports world, such as concussions and other types of head injuries.
Injury rehabilitation is a safe way for athletes to regain their sporting proficiency, gradually and safely returning to form following an accident or a rough hit. This form of personalised rehabilitation treatment brings many added benefits, such as pain management and musculoskeletal therapy. It also allows for customisable training, mobility and strength optimisation, and guidance regarding future injury prevention.
What is involved in the process?
A clear understanding of your current physical condition is instrumental when developing your rehabilitation goals, as therapists need to understand the details of your injury before designing an ideal recovery regimen.
The first step usually involves pain management during the healing stage, just after the initial swelling subsides. This is followed by regular monitoring of your progress at specific intervals, as rehabilitation efforts get underway in earnest.
Light exercises make up the heart of the recovery process, helping the patient reach their recovery goals in the affected areas. It is important to note that although the injured part of the body receives special emphasis during rehabilitation, other areas may also require exercise to maintain good health and proper functioning.
How is sports injury management & rehabilitation useful?
Sensible exercise routines can help you regain your overall strength and musculoskeletal mobility. It can ease muscle sprains, joint injuries, and recovery from torn ligaments – and also accelerate recovery from surgery itself.
Different types of exercises will be assigned to improve your overall physical constitution. As you progress, you will benefit from additional workouts that improve your flexibility, balance, muscle strength and power, coordination, joint mobility, and physical endurance.
How does it work?
Rehabilitation is designed to get you back in shape through a range of manual therapy and controlled exercises at varying rates of intensity. Therapists will help restore your musculoskeletal abilities by means of reconditioning and training, often using time-tested workouts appropriate to your particular injury and sport.
The rehabilitation process makes excellent use of low-impact exercise equipment, including a Wunda chair, fitballs, stationary spin bike, BOSU ball, a TheraBand, dumbbells, and much more. Tape or other protective gear will also be used to keep your recovery on track.
Rehabilitation programmes help you learn to control pain, while healing quickly and regaining muscle strength. These efforts may take time to complete, though the associated exercise will also have the benefit of bringing your endurance back up to normal athletic levels.
Last but not least, you will regain your confidence and morale as you get back into shape. Even after you regain most of your strength and range of movement, further assessment and evaluation will remain necessary to prevent you from repeated injury if you plan to return to your sporting activities directly.
