What is a Sports Rehabilitator and how can they help me?
Having worked as a Sports Rehabilitator for the past 14 years, I am still always asked, what do I do?
There are many disciplines within the health and fitness industry that clients are more familiar with; physiotherapy, chiropractors and osteopaths, but Sport Rehabilitator is something that commonly gets mistaken.
In a nutshell, we offer very similar services to Physiotherapists but we specialise in musculoskeletal pain or injury and support clients return to specific sport or activity, as well as, general function.
What sets us apart is our strong focus on exercise based rehabilitation and returning patients to a high level of function. This is achieved through detailed assessment and diagnosis and understanding the patient/ athletes goals. Once set, we can tailor an individualised rehabilitation programme to suit their needs right through to performance and any ongoing rehab that will be needed to stay injury free.
Here is a short list of the types we injuries we see in the clinic:
Knee injuries: These can include runner's knee, torn ligaments, meniscal tears, fractures and knee replacements.
Elbow and hand injuries: These can include tennis elbow, golfer's elbow, torn ligaments, dislocations, carpal tunnel, bicep & tricep tears.
Shoulder injuries: These can include rotator cuff injuries, impingement, labral tears and instability.
Muscle injuries lower limb: These can include hamstring, quad, groin and calf tears.
Ankle & foot injuries: These can include ankle ligament sprains, achilles tendinopathy, plantar fascia and shin splints.
Back, neck and spine pain: lower back pain, sciatica, disc problems and more…
Post Operative Rehabilitation: hip, knee, ankle, spinal, shoulder and elbow.
Concussions: These are mild brain injuries caused by a blow to the head. Symptoms include headache, dizziness, and short-term memory loss.
Trauma Injuries: including fractures, Stress fractures and dead legs.
Get in contact and find out how a Sport Rehabilitator can help you.