Sports Rehab

If you are a high-performance athlete, specific sports rehab will be more effective for you than basic physiotherapy. This is because sports rehab focuses on rehabilitating athletes to play their specific sport. The benefits of sports-specific rehabilitation promote better recovery and Performance Chiropractic + Physiotherapy in Edmonton, Alberta is a leader in personalized care based on your sport.

What Makes Sports Rehab So Special?

For the demanding athlete, there’s simply no comparison between general rehab after injury and rehab after a sports injury – their goals are quite different. Specific sports rehab goes beyond recovery. It focuses mainly on the forces and mechanics of your sport to prepare you to play again with the same or even better performance than before. If your body is used to the rigors of exercise, basic rehabilitation is not enough. You need a qualified physiotherapist to get you in shape and get you back to the sport you love.

Why Sports Rehab?

Sports-related injuries are extremely common as more and more people seek a healthier lifestyle and encourage their children to take part in youth sports. A study found that 8.6 million Americans suffered a sports injury in one year. Many of the injuries can be treated at home, while others need hospitalization. If you’re hospitalized for a sports-related injury, you probably need physiotherapy as well.

Physiotherapy is necessary to fully recover from an exercise-related injury. Often, the injured body parts must be rested or immobilized while they heal. During the healing process, these joints and muscles come out of exercise, so to speak. As part of the rehab process, you must exercise the injured area to build strength and restore normal function. Physiotherapy shows you how to do this safely so you can avoid further injury and regain your mobility effectively.

Sports rehab for athletes is particularly important. While regular physiotherapy helps patients regain the ability to perform their daily activities, sports rehab restores the ability of the body to withstand the extreme stresses of athletics.

Sports rehab addresses the needs of your specific sport. Each sport requires different mechanisms and movements and exerts various forces on the body. Where a weightlifter places more emphasis on strength and endurance, a gait analysis will be more beneficial for a runner. A sports rehab can customize exercises to meet the specific limitations of your sport and prepare you to start over under those limitations.

Sports rehab also takes into account the unique composition of your body, which can affect your rehabilitation and athletic performance. Your physiotherapist can see how your body is working and help you correct pre-existing physiological imbalances or potentially dangerous movement patterns that make you vulnerable to further injury.

The Right Sports Rehab

If you have an exercise-related injury and are planning on getting back to your sport, partnering with a skilled sports physiotherapist like those at Performance Chiropractic + Physiotherapy should be considered. As a leading clinic in specific sports rehab, we develop individual treatment schemes for our patients that help them recover more quickly and resume their sport.