Injury Treatments  

Injury First assessment:

Includes an initial consultation, physical assessment of the injury (allowing baseline measure to be taken to show improvements or if progress is not happening), treatment plan and tailored rehabilitation program.

This is achieved by detailed questioning, skilled observation and performing diagnostic tests considering your muscles, joints, nerves and associated structures. This will lead to a diagnosis and explanation of your problem.

Injury Follow up session:

These sessions will be for further treatments and rehabilitation progression.

Sports Massage  

After work or training do you feel tightness in your muscles?

Do you feel tired and run down?

Do you have recurrent calf strains?

Want to reduce you recovery time?

Prevention Massage

Imbalances and damage in deep tissues can be detected earlier and potentially corrected before an injury develops. It can improves Self Awareness through deep tissue massage, an athlete can learn to monitor their own condition and adjust their training accordingly

Benefits include: -

Increasing blood flow through the tissues can improve the recovery process allowing the athlete to train more effectively and safely it assists the removal of waste products and helps supply the tissues with essential nutrients to aid recovery. Increasing the knowledge of the deep tissues means advice can be given on specific stretching, training and equipment to help improve performance.

Pre Competition Massage:

Helps prevent injury and prepares the body and mind for the stresses and exertions of the forthcoming event. A pre race massage will warm muscle tissue, lubricate joints increase blood flow, increase oxygen intake.

Post Competition:

Helps return the body and mind to an enjoyable relaxed state. A post race massage will relax muscle tissue, relax muscle fibers, and remove toxins and lactic acid form muscles. It helps prevent overuse injury and following day aches.

Treatments will vary with the type and stage of injury as well as the person. 

Treatments available include 

Ultrasound and TENS - Machines can be a useful, to enhance the rate of healing by increasing circulation, giving pain relief. Electrotherapy will be used only when appropriate 

Mobilisations - These are skills normally applied to joints, muscles or nerves, aimed at increasing range of motion, relieving pain and correcting alignment to improve movement patterns. It can normalise the soft tissues and reduce muscle spasm.

Massage - I use massage techniques to treat problems related to soft tissue injury and dysfunction. Massage is a key component to the management of the client. Sports massage cab be more invasive and technical in application than Swedish massage. The massage works at a much deeper level to cause a positive reaction in the muscles, fascia and connective tissue to bring about physiological changes. It increases blood flow and drainage of waste products which can reduce muscle soreness after exercise. It increases tissue temperature and decreases swelling caused by injury and breaks down adhesions within the soft tissues leading to increased muscle flexibility. It addresses muscle imbalances via application of Soft tissue release (STR) and muscle energy techniques (MET). Frictions is the deepest of techniques used in sports massage and is targeted at soft tissue damage such as scar tissue or adhesions. Frictions are used for pain relief and to increase the inflammatory response, particularly effective in cases of tennis or golfers elbow, chronic tendonitis or ankle sprains. Soft tissue release is a combination of applying muscle pressure/lock and allowing movement of the limb to cause change. Muscle energy techniques compliment STLs greatly, it is a stretching technique which involves the subjects own muscular energy to help release holding tension. They can also be applied together.

Myofascial release - This hands-on technique seeks to free the body from the grip of tight fascia, or connective tissue, thus restoring normal alignment and function and reducing pain. Using their hands, therapists apply mild, sustained pressure to gently stretch and soften the fascia. Myofascial release is used to treat neck and back pain, headaches, and recurring/chronic sports injuries, among other conditions. It has shown great results for fibromalgia.

Exercise and Stretches - My knowledge in movement, anatomy and physiology of the human body will enable exercise prescription to correct movement faults, relieving musculoskeletal symptoms, preventing further injury and possibly enhancing performance. I focus my stretching and strengthening programs on the interrelationship of the whole body - treating the cause behind the injury and not just the injury site. Exercises can assist with self management of a complaint and can reduce the number of treatments required

In the latter stages of rehabilitation it is necessary for exercise to be functional and specific to the intended activities to be performed. I will prescribe a suitable program for your individual requirements. 

All are given with advice and evidence based research to show the treatment is correct and appropriate to the injury and client.

Prices

Sports Therapy

First Assessment (45min-1hr) £30

Sports Massage

Pre Competition (30min) £15

Relaxation Massage

Gym Sessions

To help with injury prevention, recovery and performance

Note: The client must be prepared to bring shorts and females a sports bra. If it is appropriate to the injury you may be asked to undress to your underwear to allow for a complete assessment and for treatment purposes. Proper towelling techniques will be used for modesty purposes.

Pro-Am Sports Injury Clinic has a huge benefit to you as it offers the facilities to complete your rehabilitation or prevention of injury programmes.