Benefits of a injury rehabilitation plan!
Injury rehabilitation refers to the process of restoring and individual’s physical function, strength, and mobility after an injury. It aims to facilitate healing, reduce pain, prevent further injury, and return the person to their daily activities, work, or sport safely and effectively as possible.
Key Phases of Injury Rehabilitation.
- Acute/Initial Phase:
- Focus: Reduce pain, swelling and inflammation.
- Activities: Rest, ice, compression, elevation (RICE), gentle range of movement exercises, and protection of the injured area.
- Subacute/Repair Phase
- Focus: Promote tissue healing, restore range of motion, and prevent stiffness.
- Activities: Gradually introduce mobility exercises, gentle strengthening, and controlled activities.
- Rehabilitation/Progression Phase
- Focus: Build strength, endurance and functional capacity.
- Activities: Progressive resistance exercises, balance training and functional movement patterns.
- Return to Activity/Performance Phase
- Focus: Prepare for return to sport, work or daily activities.
- Activities: Sport-specific drills, agility, plyometrics and phycological readiness assessments.
How can we help you?
By combining sports massage therapy, and utilising our fully equipped personal training studio, our fully qualified sports therapist can design and plan a course of action to help treat, strengthen and prevent further injuries. Whether you are a sports person, recovering from a specific sports injury or just a general person recovering from day to day injuries, we can tailor a mix of treatments and training to get you recovering better and faster, whilst trying to prevent any further injuries.