The Big Six Sports Injuries

SPORTS INJURY CLINIC

Why put up with having an injury? Sometimes when you’re injured it’s too late! Prevention is always said to be better than the cure.

If you are considering taking up running, cycling, or swimming, why don’t you book in for a sports screening assessment to ensure you have all the advice and exercised necessary to make your chosen sport as effective and injury free as possible.

Treatments…

PHYSICAL CONDITIONING – Prepares the athlete’s body for sport and enhances performance. This includes warm up, cool down, flexibility, strength, endurance and power.

INJURIES – Identify, assess and report injuries early. This helps reduce the risk of injuries so that athletes’ performance can be maintained and improved.

If you have been injured before then you are much more likely to get hurt than an athlete who has been injury free. Regular exercises have a way of uncovering the weak areas of the body.

There are detectable and correctable differences in muscle strength and length that are fundamental to the development of almost all musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction.

Detection of these differences, and correction before the injury has occurred, should be part of any injury prevention programme.

Injury Free

To help facilitate your recovery, we work to restore normal movements and allow you to move pain free.

By recognising some of the common threads of how individuals injure themselves, we can start to incorporate our injury prevention efforts into your normal daily activities, in a pain free way. The following are the two foundations that we use to reduce the risk of injury.

Many injuries are caused by weak muscles which simply are not ready to handle the specific demands of your sport; screening for muscle imbalances is the current cutting edge of injury prevention.

Here at The Partnership we work in both these areas, to restore you to normal quality movements for any activities you want to do.

The Big Six Sports Injuries

Running

The high rate of running injuries makes focusing on prevention key. If you can prevent injuries, you’ll be able to run more consistently, reach a higher weekly mileage, do more challenging workouts – and ultimately, race a lot faster for longer.

Skiing

There’s no doubt about it, snow sports are fun. Whether you’re hurtling down the side of a mountain at 40 mph, or exploring backcountry terrain; snow sports always involve excitement, adventure and exhilaration.

Golf

Basic cardiovascular fitness is essential. Regular walking, running or cross-training on a stair machine, elliptical trainer, swimming, and cycling are all ways to improve general fitness.

Tennis

The sun is shining, the strawberries are ripening and the tennis season is upon us! The tournaments held at the Queen’s Club and The All England Club in London are just around the corner, inspiring many of you to get back out on the court.

Cycling

There are two main types of cycling injury, those caused by falling off (which we don’t discuss below) and the issues caused by overtraining, biomechanical stresses, often due to muscle imbalances, and incorrect bike set-up.

Swimming

Swimming is one of the most popular sports in the world. We swim in the sea, pools, lakes, streams, rivers and even ponds. And given that 70% of the Earth’s surface is water, we’re not short of opportunities.