Sports Injuries
Sports injuries can be tricky.
If you only get symptoms when maximally exerting the body, like at the end of a marathon, or after four sets of tennis, it can be difficult to incriminate the tissues involved in a clinical setting.
Even when the symptoms are evident during activities of daily living, the extreme demands of your chosen sport or discipline can complicate factors, as certain functional requirements and movement patterns you have learned as part of that activity may be useful while playing/performing, but less so during everyday life.
The good news is that we can often alter these factors so that they have less impact on your day-to-day life, and in most cases it will not even be necessary to stop your chosen sport or hobby. In the case of acute injury, however, a period of rest from high-level performance may be necessary, even if you can keep doing some low-level training.
Your osteopath will help you understand exactly what the issue is, what the expected resolution time-frame is, and how we can speed up (and, crucially, avoid slowing-down) the recovery process.
If you only get symptoms when maximally exerting the body, like at the end of a marathon, or after four sets of tennis, it can be difficult to incriminate the tissues involved in a clinical setting.
Even when the symptoms are evident during activities of daily living, the extreme demands of your chosen sport or discipline can complicate factors, as certain functional requirements and movement patterns you have learned as part of that activity may be useful while playing/performing, but less so during everyday life.
The good news is that we can often alter these factors so that they have less impact on your day-to-day life, and in most cases it will not even be necessary to stop your chosen sport or hobby. In the case of acute injury, however, a period of rest from high-level performance may be necessary, even if you can keep doing some low-level training.
Your osteopath will help you understand exactly what the issue is, what the expected resolution time-frame is, and how we can speed up (and, crucially, avoid slowing-down) the recovery process.
