Sports Injuries
From weekend warriors to elite athletes, and children - here’s our key guide to sports injuries.
Sports Injuries
At Renu Physiotherapy we love to help people to stay active. All of our Physiotherapists have worked with sports teams in clinic and pitch side and are very experienced in accurate diagnosis and rehabilitation. Here’s their top recommendations.
Tips for kids playing sports
Our Top 10 Tips to Prevent Injury for Children in Sport - download our 2 page guide with 10 top tips here.
Sports injury and pain management refers to the prevention and/or treatment of pain and injuries that most commonly occur during sports or exercise.
Injuries to muscles, ligaments and tendons are commonplace, especially on the sports field. We have experience working with weekend warriors and elite, professional sportspeople. We believe good rehab starts day one, and progresses to return to sport and prevention strategies. Below is some useful information.
How to manage an acute injury
Video - https://www.physio-pedia.com/POLICE_Principle
Tendon Pain Overview
10 tips based on contemporary knowledge of how to treat lower limb tendinopathy. A video summary of Prof Jill Cook's La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre blog:
https://semrc.blogs.latrobe.edu.au/10-things-not-to-do-if-you-have-lower-limb-tendon-pain/
What not to do if you have tendon problems
Professor Jill Cook presents an animation in 3 minutes telling you what to avoid
How exercise promotes tissue health
What happens when we apply load to tissues by doing exercise written by Prof. Karim Khan.
Article - https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/43/4/247
The importance of tissue load
Sports Physiotherapist Dr Phil Glasgow discusses optimal load for injury treatment and prevention in a 22 minute podcast and reveals all
More tendon Tips
More practical podcast tips on troublesome tendons from Prof. Cook lasting 29 minutes
Hamstring Injury- Latest Programs
Soccer/Football Injury Prevention
FIFA 11+ is an effective injury prevention program developed by FIFA. Designed as a complete warm-up, it can be done in place of a regular warm-up before training/games and includes specific strengthening exercises and drills to reduce the likelihood of injuries in football players.
Our Top 10 Tips to Prevent Injury for Children in Sport - download our 2 page guide with 10 top tips here.
Running Tips
Sports Injury Management
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