Sport Rehabilitation
As an overview, effective rehabilitation should always be a staged process aimed at promoting recovery, expediting return to sport, optimising performance, and preventing re-injury.
Motivation
Naturally, an athlete will always want to return to peak activity, perhaps more so at professional (paid) and elite competition levels as opposed to the amateur (unpaid) level.
A Calculated Risk
Time spent on the sidelines through injury and, or lacklustre performance at the professional level within a sport, can make or break a career.
So the incentive to compress the recovery timescales, to make the most rapid return to sport after injury always carries a level of risk that must be weighed up carefully.
At the elite sports level, the constant presence of training professionals and coaches aids in injury prevention, best practice, and optimum support conditions for a return to top performance levels in the event of injury.
In situations with less access to such a positive supportive environment, the return to top performance levels after an injury may statistically be over a more sustained period, but in both environments, there are short and long terms risks to be considered.
Is the rehabilitation objective to return to a pre-injury performance level?
From a sports medicine practitioner's perspective, and notwithstanding that the injury could have been caused through a collision or impact, the rehabilitation process seeks to attain a higher level of performance and capability than previously enjoyed……..read more
Objectives of Rehabilitation in Sport - The Fundamentals
Our evidence-based plan for rehabilitation is derived from your individual assessment initially targetting the injury and when the initial injury is overcome the emphasis is changed towards training to prevent the re-occurrence of injury leading to improvements in performance for sport and lifestyle activities.