Sport Injury Rehabilitation

Athlete participating in an any form of athletic activity, always has a risk of getting injured during sporting activities. Range of sports injuries from minor to major can keep one off the field for a certain period of time. Sport rehabilitation focuses on getting well, regaining flexibility, speed, balance, strength to get back into action and avoid further injury.

Some sporting injuries includes the following

Strains and sprains (ligament injury, tendon or muscle injuries): The rehabilitation process helps prevent additional injuries, restore function, and strengthen the injured area to prevent further injuries.

Dislocation and fractures

Athletes often time sustain this kind of injury like dislocating their ankle, wrist, shoulder, hips fracture and elbow dislocation. Rehabilitation helps injured athletes to return to their sport without risk and to increase their range of motion, strength, and function in the affected area.

Head injuries

Head injuries are very delicate that sometimes if proper care is not taken it might affect the brain. Most head injuries is a result of collision mostly in sports like football, American football, strike force, boxing e.t.c. Some traumatic head injuries, like concussions, require specialized rehabilitation programs. It is essential to take the patient’s individual mental and physical needs to help the rehabilitation process.

Spinal injury

Spinal injuries such as disc problems, stenosis, spondylolysis, and spondylolisthesis may require rehabilitation to alleviate pain, regain function, and offer strategies to avoid further pain and damage.

Players or athletes can sustain a spinal injury as a result of how the land on the floor or how their opponent hits them during a sporting activity. This injury is very delicate and so rehabilitation helps the athlete to regain proper body posture, the process hurts but he or she will eventually get back to normal after some time.

Some method used to help injured athletes get full recovery during the rehabilitation process includes the following:

• Pain management
• Physiotherapy
• Exercise therapy
• Manual therapy
• Light therapy

In summary sport injury rehabilitation helps to facilitating tissue repair by reducing scar tissue, boosting joint nourishment and lubrication for both damaged and unaffected areas, ease pain and stiffness, increasing mobility through ligament and muscle stretching.

Are you an athlete who may sustained an injury and miss playing on the field, Effective Physiotherapy and Fitness Clinic will get you back on track in no distanced time,

For quick and Effective Recovery from pains and sports injuries please contact us at EFFECTIVE PHYSIOTHERAPY & FITNESS CLINIC as soon as possible in order to have a quick intervention of a physiotherapist to attend to you.

Address: No. 2D Ajumgobia (FIA) Close, Kado Estate, Abuja.

Phone number: +234 909 860 4470 or +234 811 885 6060

Website: www.effectivephysio.com
Twitter: @effectvphysio
Facebook: EffectivePhysiotherapyClinic