Sports Injury Physiotherapy

At Agility, we have 2 APA Titled Sports and Exercise physiotherapists with many years of experience who have worked with various national teams and a wide range of sporting codes. All our physiotherapists continue to receive ongoing education and are up to date with the latest in Sports Injury management they share the same thorough approach to assessing and treating your sporting injury.

Sports injury physiotherapy treatment will consist of a thorough assessment to identify causative factors and the extent of your injury. Then a hands-on treatment and graded strengthening programme will be implemented for you.

Our goal is to use evidence-based state of the art treatment and offer a modified training programme that you can complete whilst your injury is healing. This will get you back on track and into your game quicker.

Our clinics include well equipped Pilates studios and gyms so we can offer a customised exercise program that you can start on while your injury is healing.

Acute injuries

Sports injury physiotherapy treatment will consist of

• Listening to your account of the injury to develop an understanding of causative
• factors, type and severity
• A thorough assessment of the extent of your injury.
• Hands-on acute soft injury management
• Taping and bracing if required
• Exercise management advice
• Graded strengthening programmes to progress you back to full strength and
• endurance for a return to competition.
• Liaising with your coach regarding return to sports progressions.

Sports Surgical Recovery

We can provide hands on therapy and definitive rehabilitation programmes for: –

Knees- ACL repair / reconstruction

Shoulders -Rotator Cuff Tendon repair

• Sub-Acromial Decompression
• SLAP repair
• Shoulder replacement

Ankles –Achilles repair

• Foot and ankle fracture fixation
• Ankle Stabilistation
• Ligament repair
• Tendon reconstruction

Hip – Arthroscopic surgery

• Hip replacements and resurfacing

Spinal surgeries

Clinical Pilates is an ideal way to fast track your rehabilitation with functional exercises that can be safely implemented in the early recovery phase

Chronic ongoing injuries

These usually occur because of one or more factors like technique, training schedule, and muscle imbalance, tight muscles, weak muscles or faulty biomechanics.

We endeavour to target the underlying cause of your injury rather than just patching up the pain and not really getting to the root cause of the problem. We will endeavour to identify contributing issues with a comprehensive musculoskeletal assessment and/ or review of your training schedules and devise a treatment and management plan to resolve your issues.

Injury rehabilitation

This involves far more than just getting treatment and getting over the pain. It is imperative that strength, flexibility, muscle endurance and joint/muscle proprioception is restored so you can safely return to sport. We will give you guidance as to how much training you can do as your injury improves, what strengthening and stretching exercises you should be doing on a daily basis and liaise with your coach regarding a return to sport progression.

With well equipped Clinical Pilates exercise studios and a gym at Ascot our physiotherapy staff can design client specific strengthening rehabilitation that can be safely commenced early in your rehab phase.

We help you to achieve

• Correct muscle activation and efficient movement patterns
• Core stability and strength through the shoulder girdle, trunk and pelvis
• Whole body flexibility and mobility
• Specific post injury rehabilitation and return to sport
• Sport specific training to enhance performance
• Strengthening and flexibility to manage chronic neck and back pain

 Shockwave

Chronic tendon injuries plague many athletes undertaking heavy training schedules and can put you out of sport for many months.

This new technology assists in accelerating the healing response at cell level. Once your pain is starting to dissipate from this treatment we can assist you with strengthening and advice about the probable cause of your tendinopathy and devise strategies to avoid a recurrence. Read more

 Dry needling (Western acupuncture)

Our staff are all trained in dry needling and can use this as part of your treatment.