Sports Injury Management

Recovery, rehabilitation and prevention 

Injury from exercise

Exercise has huge benefits for physical and mental health. We strongly encourage you to stay active and keep participating whether you’re an avid walker, a recreational ‘weekend warrior’ athlete, or an elite sports professional.

Unfortunately, an increase in physical activity in training, contact or non-contact sports brings risk of injury. Even non-sporting activities like gardening, cleaning the house or walking can lead to injury.

However you’ve hurt yourself, therapists at Campbelltown Physiotherapy promptly diagnose the injury, identify the risk factors that caused the injury and rehabilitate for your return to sport or activity in a safe and timely manner.

 

Thorough assessment and diagnosis

Our physiotherapists start by making a thorough assessment and diagnosis of your sport injury. Direct contact, falls, muscle weakness and fatigue, poor technique or overtraining are common causes of injury. We frequently diagnose:

• Muscle tears and strains
• Back and neck injuries
• Fractures
• Dislocations
• Ligament and tendon injuries

With risk factors identified and a diagnosis in place, we devise a plan for your recovery and prevention of injury recurrence. Whether the injury is acute or a chronic condition, we give a time frame for your return to sport or activity.

 

 

Sports injury treatment

Treatment plans are tailored to each patient, taking into account any performance needs, lifestyle challenges or underlying health issues. We aim for a safe and timely return to sport with programs that are as effective as they are achievable on a day-to-day basis.

Physiotherapists at Campbelltown Physiotherapy are highly knowledgeable with many years’ experience successfully treating sport injuries. Our modern, fully-equipped facilities allow us to accelerate your rehabilitation and collaborate with you to provide the best treatments possible, including:

• Education about your injury, causes and prevention strategies
• Muscle strengthening
• Pain control: both acute and chronic
• Swelling control
• Neuromuscular training
• Shockwave therapy
• Bracing and strapping
• Sport specific training and technique alterations
• Support and encouragement

 

Qualified therapists supervise your exercise programs in the rehabilitation gym to ensure correct technique and monitor progress. We encourage you to ask questions about at any time, because knowledge gives confidence in your road to recovery, which leads to better health outcomes for you.

Make an appointment online, or call  our friendly team to learn more about managing your sport injury.