SPS Clinics have many years experience in assessing and treating sports injuries.
The term sports injury, in the broadest sense, refers to the kinds of injuries that most commonly occur during sports or exercise.
Some sports injuries result from accidents; others are due to poor training practices, improper equipment, lack of conditioning, or insufficient warm-up and stretching.
Although virtually any part of your body can be injured during sports or exercise, the term is usually reserved for injuries that involve the musculoskeletal system, which includes the muscles, bones, and associated tissues like cartilage, ligaments or tendons.
Sports injuries are often caused from overuse and over training, such as runner’s knee or tennis elbow where the player pushes there body to the limit.
Sports physiotherapy is a specific field of physiotherapy. A Sports physiotherapist can manage a wide variety of sporting injuries sustained by the elite to everyday athlete.
SPS Sports Injury Clinic involves the disciplines of sports medicine, sports physiotherapy, sports massage and sports rehabilitation to allow us to treat the sport related injury or dysfunction holistically.
Sports medicine covers the diagnostic and intervention aspects of the injured athlete via Biomechanical Analysis and assessment.
Sports physiotherapy looks after the rehabilitation and return to sport post injury.
Sports massage involves the conditioning of soft tissue injury to its original state.
Treatment of sports injuries are best treated by a physiotherapist who is either a sports physio or a physiotherapist with a keen interest sports injuries, usually with a background in sports coverage and works closely with sporting teams. Ray Bramford has a long history of treating and rehabilitating both elite and amateur athletes.
To book an appointment, call SPS Clinics on 01704 500 635 or 01772 816 816.
