5 Important Benefits of Sports Physiotherapy

What is sports therapy? This is sometimes known as “sports physiotherapy”, a branch of medicine that focuses mostly on avoiding injury and healing patients and athletes who engage in sports.

Various treatments such as manual therapy, heat/ice, stretching, electrotherapy, acupuncture, ultrasound and vestibular therapy, are used in sports therapy to maintain optimal function and fitness. Despite this, why should such therapies be considered beyond typical pain relief?

Here are 5 advantages that all athletes, regardless of skill level, should be aware of:

1. Improves Physical Power
   With every impact an athlete receives during their sport, their muscles, joints, bones and ligaments are strained. A sports physiotherapist will be able to boost your body's strength. You may be able to withstand a greater amount of physical stress involved in sports.

2. Helps Your Body Relax
   After intensive exercises or playing the field, it can be difficult for some individuals to rest and decompress. As an athlete, you may exceed your boundaries because you are so motivated to continue. Consider a session with a sports physiotherapist as your body's stretch assistant and healer if this is your issue. Sports therapy can help the body with regaining the energy required for the next day.

3. Enhances Muscular and Joint Flexibility
   Whichever sport you participate in will determine the amount of flexibility you must attain. You can work on your flexibility with the assistance of a sports therapist, regardless of whether your objective is to get fitter and healthier, or to prepare for elite championship competition.

4. Prevents Injuries
   When the body is strong, it is less prone to sprains, muscular strains, ligament tears and other sports-related ailments. Your physiotherapist will assist you with developing a body plan. There are a variety of exercises designed to strengthen and condition your body in preparation for your athletic activity.

5. Treats Injuries
   Even under ideal conditions, accidents and sports injuries still occur. Your sports therapist will help you heal as quickly as possible and prevent future injuries from causing additional issues.

Physiotherapists Treat Common Sports Injuries

Treatments include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Ankle sprains and ligament ruptures

• Plantar fasciitis

• Knee Sprains

• MCL, ACL and PCL ligament ruptures

• Malfunction of the anterior and posterior ligaments

• Malfunction of the medial and lateral ligaments

• Syndrome of the patellofemoral joint

• Osgood Schlatters Disease

• Meniscal/cartilage ruptures

• Capsule sprains

• Dislocation of the shoulder

• Ruptured rotator cuffs

• Tears in muscle tissue

• Disk protrusions

• Cervical and lumbar compression

• Traumatic brain injury and whiplash

• Hip compressions

• Wrist sprains

Visiting a Sports Physiotherapist

Before receiving any therapy, you will have an evaluation (consultation). This includes answering questions about your medical history, lifestyle, sports participation and other pertinent information. This will assist your physiotherapist in evaluating your condition, and you'll get better acquainted. Feel free to ask them questions.

After collecting the appropriate data, they will evaluate your injuries (if you are seeing them for the first time with an injury). This session could include functional mobility, posture and ligament stability. You will discuss a treatment plan if you see the physiotherapist for an injury. Feel free to discuss with them any questions or concerns at this time.

Langley’s best sports physiotherapists are at Fraser Life. Visit us online or call us at (778) 278-4755 today.