Comprehensive recovery
Physiotherapy has many benefits for individuals suffering from sports injuries who want to recover quickly and completely. However, it can be used beyond rehabilitation from sport injuries and can assist with musculoskeletal health issues, but also with neurological disorders, like: spinal cord injuries, multiple sclerosis, stoke, and cerebral palsy. Sports Physiotherapists are specialised in treating sport injuries and can help diagnose injuries and perform manual therapy, therapeutic exercise and electrotherapy.
How it works
Some basic sports physiotherapy treatments include hot and cold packs applied to injured areas which help relieve the immediate pain of an injury, whereas more involved physiotherapy methods include stretching, a range of motion exercises, and strengthening exercises that help regain strength and balance. Sports physiotherapy improves circulation to muscles, increases tissue permeability and improves its elasticity, breaks down scar tissue, reduces pain, tension and waste products in the muscle tissue that can cause pain. Finally, it has relaxing effect, which relieves tensions, both physically and psychologically.