Sports Physio at All Care Physiotherapy
Whether you are a professional athlete or enjoysocial sport on a weeknight, the All CarePhysio Team are the premium physiotherapists in Brisbane City that you need to see for all sports-related injury treatment and injury management. Our expert sports physiotherapistswill ensure you have minimal to no down time from playing the sports you love.
Injuries that arise from playing sports are usually due to sudden, high impact loads being put onto the bones, joints, tendons, ligaments and muscles of the body. When the load becomes too much for the strength of that structure to tolerate – an injury results. This could mean a knee ligament injury or an ankle sprain, a tendonitis, a muscle tear or even a stress fracture. Sporting injuries can be from one sudden movement that is felt instantly, or they can result from a build up of repetitive load and strain that is only felt later on after the body has cooled down. Whatever the injury, it is important to get on top of it sooner rather than later by seeing a qualified sports physiotherapist.
Our sports physiotherapists here at All Care Physiotherapy have elite skills in assessing and identifying sports related injuries. We have the highest quality equipment in our treating rooms to help to manage inflammation, swelling and pain as well as superior hands-on skills and knowledge.
Some of the ways we can manage and quickly improve sports injuries includes:
- Dry Needling
- Taping
- Specific strengthening Exercises
- Joint mobilisation
- Electrotherapy such as ultrasound, muscle stimulation and interferential
- Mobilisation techniques
- Alignment techniques
- Advice on movement patterns, equipment and return to sport timeframes.
- Physio Pilates
- Shockwave Therapy
- Sports Massage
- Return to Sport Assessment and Risk Identification and Management
The benefits gained from All Care sports physiotherapy sessions don’t end when your assessment or treatment ends. You will have a rehabilitation plan with exercises to aid in the healing and recovery process to complete at home and ensure prevention of injury in the future.
As always prevention is better than cure, so if you have a small niggle during your sporting games or training, make sure you book a thorough assessment with our sports physiotherapists and ensure it does not become an injury that sidelines you for the season.
Examples of why Sports Physiotherapy is so important for you:
- An abnormal tight sensation in your achilles or calf after training could be a warning signal preluding a calf tear or worse, an achilles rupture. Two weeks of sports massage, dry needling and a specific strengthening and stretching programme is a lot easier than 6months of rehabilitation following an achilles rupture. All Care Physio’s are trained to identify these warning signals and ensure you prevent unwanted injury before it happens.
- A sharp pain in your shoulder when throwing that comes and goes could be an acute shoulder bursitis or tendonitis waiting to happen. Often a shoulder bursitis or tendonitis, once inflamed, can take weeks to months settle down on its own. By seeing a sports physiotherapist at All Care Physiotherapy early, we can assess your shoulder biomechanics and identify the causing factors early, before a true injury occurs. Then by utilising manual therapy, dry needling, taping and a strengthening programme, can ensure you avoid this unwanted bursitis or tendonitis and keep throwing all season.
- An ACL injury is one of the least-desired knee injuries in sport, usually putting you out of the game for 12months while you rehabilitate. Often players are seen re-injuring their ACL for a second time, or on the opposite knee, in the first 12 months after they return to sport. This is why it’s imperative to see a sports physiotherapist at All Care Physiotherapy prior to returning to sport. We ensure you are passing every competency test with flying colours before returning to sport and have the required strength, balance and proprioception needed to avoid reinjury.