Body transformation
Injury Clinic
Sports therapists who treat injuries and pain
Do you have pain that needs treatment?
Sports therapists are trained in understanding the musculoskeletal system and common causes that can result in issues such as
- Back Pain
- Knee Pain
- Neck Pain
- Ankle Injury
- Hip Injury
We use massage therapy and rehabilitation exercises to identify the source of injuries and to work with you to get to the root cause of the issue and prevent them from returning.
Your first session with your sports massage therapist will be an assessment of your problem area.
We will look at your range of movement and the level of pain you are in to assess treatment options and give you the best pain management care possible.
Our treatment will include hands-on massage of the affected area and easy-to-do rehab exercises that can be done at home or in the gym.
Treatment for long-term solutions
Clients can see improvements in a few sessions of hands-on sports massage and physio focused on identifying the root cause of the problem and working to correct it.
They then see even further improvements once we add the corrective exercises like stretching and strength movements to ensure you can be as pain-free as quickly as possible.
Posture & Movement Assessment
Often when someone is feeling stiff and in pain, it is a consequence of something else going on in their body.
For example, we have spoken about how a sedentary lifestyle or strenuous exercise can lead to the feeling of high, stiff or painful muscles.
It is important to identify where these issues are originating from so that sports massage treatment can be most effective in reducing the symptoms, pain or discomfort.
For this reason we go through a full body assessment to find the cause of the problem. We check what muscles are weak or tight, as well as the range of movement of your joints.
This leads to 2 modes of treatment designed to help with long-term pain relief by identifying the underlying issue and offering advice on how to include pain-relief in your day-to-day life.
- Deep Tissue Sports massage - designed to relax the muscle and reduce pain
- Strengthening exercises - To reduce the risk of the pain returning
What is unique about Sports Massage is that it is a deep tissue massage - this means it is firmer than others.
Clients find it incredibly useful to fix injuries and chronic pain.
We find the main reasons our clients experience stiffness and pain are:
- Old injuries that were never treated properly and have become chronic
- Sitting for too long, causing muscles to become weak and tight
- Exercising strenuously, causesing muscles to be overly fatigued or injured
A sports massage therapist can work with you to address chronic injuries as well as use massage to realign muscle fibers and joints in order to correct areas of the body feeling discomfort.
How to know if you need Physiotherapy or Sports Therapy
We often have clients enquiring whether they need Physiotherapy or Sports Therapy, and which practitioner can offer the most appropriate treatment for their injury.
The short answer is that both professions are trained and insured to treat musculoskeletal disorders but there are some key differences in their training and approach.
Below we will give you an overview of the two professions, outlining their similarities and differences to help you identify the most appropriate practitioner to aid you back to optimal fitness.
Both Physiotherapists and Sports Therapists are highly educated in dealing with musculoskeletal disorders, treating pain and injury through hands-on treatment modalities, rehabilitation and patient education.
Both focus on restoring, maintaining and maximising movement, relieving pain and increasing quality of life.
Both therapists possess the skills and knowledge to:
- Assess and diagnose injuries
- Deliver a personalised treatment plan to maximise movement and physical independence
- Teach patients how to reduce pain and manage chronic injuries
- Implement rehabilitation programmes
- Teach patients how to stay fit and well
Some of the shared treatment approaches used to aid recovery include:
- Massage, bodywork and mobilisations
- Electrotherapy modalities
- Taping
- Varied stretching techniques
- Biomechanics analysis
- Acupuncture
- Patient education
- Exercise prescription
Key Differences Between Physios and Sports Therapist
The two professions share many similarities and overlap in their treatment programmes which leads to patients being unsure whether they would be best suited to physiotherapy or sports therapy. However, there are some key differences:
- Physiotherapists have a broader knowledge base and medical background, which allows them to treat illnesses, diseases, neurological and respiratory issues. This makes them ideal for treating a wide range of patients, including complex patients with multiple conditions.
- Sports therapists generally have more exposure to sporting environments at an undergraduate level making them ideal for preventing sports injuries through specific strengthening programmes.
- Physiotherapy attempts to rehabilitate patients to allow them to feel comfortable and cope in their day-to-day life, whereas Sports Therapy, on the other hand, focuses more on whether the patient has returned to or can maintain the required physical level for whatever sporting activity they would like to carry out.
- As Sports Therapists focus solely on musculoskeletal rehabilitation and have a sports-focused background, it makes them attractive to patients who are aiming to return to exercise.
