Sports Physio Edmonton

Sports physiotherapy is vital to relieving pain, maintaining physical function, restoring movement, and preventing further injury. Physiotherapy is essential to successful recovery, whether you have a chronic illness, work-related injury, automobile accident, sports-related injury, or musculoskeletal disorder.

At Performance Chiropractic + Physiotherapy, we take the extra time with sport-specific problems and injuries to understand your movement patterns and to correct and recondition the basic movements in your sport in order to minimize injuries. A combination of treatments, yoga-based movements, and manual manipulation is used to meet your specific needs.

How does a Sports Physio in Edmonton Assess your Injury?

A sports physio in Edmonton will perform a full assessment of the injured area, but will also assess the entire kinetic chain involved in the sport-specific movement pattern. For instance, a soccer player is evaluated differently from a runner. This will determine why the injury occurred and implement a specific treatment program. Also, they will need information about your current exercise program, your weekly load, and the main competitions you will be doing in the near and distant future. Your treatment program will always be tailored to your individual needs and particularly with those goals in mind.

A sports physio in Edmonton also uses several tests and equipment to obtain objective data and establish a baseline for your current weaknesses and strengths. Injuries are a very exasperating experience for sportspersons. Setting goals and objectives is a great way to keep athletes engaged and motivated. This is an important skill of a sports physio in Edmonton.

A sports physiotherapist uses objective data to create an athlete’s profile. Here are some examples:

Diagnostic Ultrasound for Injury Assessment and Tracking – Ultrasound is ideal for visualizing joints, tendons, and muscles, sometimes better than MRI.

Muscle Length Test

A comprehensive study of your muscle length is performed to identify significant muscle imbalances using a variety of reliable and validated tests.

Strength Test

Using specialized devices that test your muscle strength (isometric, eccentric, and concentric) provides important information on the strength that we can compare to your other benchmark or compare you to other athletes we have dealt with. This will help identify muscle weaknesses and imbalances that need to be corrected.

Force Plate Test

This test provides instant information on neuromuscular asymmetries and performance during functional testing. It is the closest analysis available that offers information on biomechanical, mechanics, and strength asymmetries in functional tasks.

Video Analysis

It is used in particular with sprinters to evaluate their running style and discover biomechanical or technical factors to consider as part of the treatment program. This is especially important if the pain occurs only during sports or activities.

This information offers an in-depth view of an athlete’s abilities and limitations and can aid in decision-making regarding appropriate rehabilitation to return to sport and/or improve performance.

These services are available at Performance Chiropractic + Physiotherapy. If you want to discuss it in more detail, don’t hesitate to contact us.