Sports Physio Explained, Brisbane
Who should see a sports physio?
First of all, you don’t have to be a professional athlete to see a sports physio.
In fact, most of our clients don’t fit that description at all (though we do treat some of the best in the business!).
Our clients range from people who play sport socially, work out alone, weekend warriors and even professionals who need their body to function well as part of their physically active day job.
Naturally, most of our clients do love sport and achieve amazing results through the way we treat their sport injury or help them to improve performance. Non-professional athletes can often think they don’t need professional advice, but small gains at this level (especially when everyone else is thinking the same thing) can lead to huge performance benefits.
And we all want to win, right?
What makes sports Physio
better for active people?
WHEN YOU SEE A SPORTS PHYSIO AT BAREFOOT PHYSIOTHERAPY, YOU SHOULD EXPECT A VERY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE THAN WHAT YOU’VE HAD AT MOST OTHER STANDARD PHYSIO PRACTICES.
The difference between physio and sports physio is that the latter has a more specific understanding of what’s required by the body to be able perform at optimal levels. Improving your performance requires a deeper understanding of your body as a working system, and it’s this understanding that moves us way beyond simply reducing pain and into the realms of holistic treatment and long term results.
We start by defining your goals and then move on to understanding your pain or limitation, treating the cause (or causes, as there’s often more than one) and crucially staying with you on the journey to ensure lasting benefits.
We might even determine at an early stage that your shoulder in jury, for example, needs investigation from another health professional before we can begin treatment. Or we might pick up in our early assessment that nerve irritation is causing muscle weakness and affecting your technique, which undetected would make a strength training program a very ineffective treatment.
Whatever the cause of your problem, our systematic and unique approach provides proven and lasting rehabilitation and improved sports performance.
Volleyball Player and Barefooter, Maggie-Laurie Watts And what’s even better is that we stay with you on the whole journey. There’s no
‘set-and-forget’ home exercises in our clinic, we’re as account able for the results of your treatment plan as you are.
Volleyball Player and Barefooter, Maggie-Laurie Watts
The Barefoot approach —
So what exactly is this systematic approach I’ve been talking about? You can read the full details here, but in a nutshell it’s a defined process that ensures we:
1. Understand your goals
2. Identify the root cause of your problem
3. Create an effective rehabilitation or training plan
4. Teach you how to maintain your performance gains and avoid re-injury
5. Communicate with other professionals involved in your performance or treatment
If you’re new to this approach, you might find it initially confronting – “I’ve got a back injury, so why are they wasting time assessing my whole body?”. Again, this comes back to finding the true cause of your pain or performance limitation, and the best way to do this is to look in the places that seem the least obvious. Only by looking at the full picture of you and your body as an interconnected system can we be confident that we’ve identified the root cause. Many things, like sleep position and posture at work can cause accumulative strain, and treating the symptom without identifying these issues is only a bandaid solution.
Only an experienced sports physio has the skills to cut through the clutter and give you lasting solutions to your pain or performance issues.
Do you need a sports injury to see us?
NO, YOU DON’T NEED TO HAVE A SPORTS INJURY TO SEE US. WHILE WE’RE ABSOLUTELY THE BEST PLACE TO BE IF YOU DO SUFFER AN INJURY, WE’RE ALSO HIGHLY SKILLED IN HELPING YOU IDENTIFY AND CORRECT ANY ISSUES THAT ARE STOPPING YOU FROM REACHING THE NEXT LEVEL OF YOUR PERFORMANCE.
The reasons for coming to see us don’t have to be injury related, but they should almost always be performance related – something that’s stopping you from being the best you can be or reaching the goals you’re aiming for.
You might present, for example, with a neck injury which is slowing your performance as a recreational rower. We’ll follow our systematic treatment approach and may find that what you thought was a neck injury is actually muscle strain caused by the flexibility in your shoulders. In this instance, it can be either the ‘injury’ or your performance deficit that led you to our door.
So a sports injury might be the reason you come to see us but the effectiveness of the treatment plan in correcting the underlying cause will likely be so effective that once you’re rehabilitated, your improved strength, flexibility and technique will lead to huge performance improvement.
Come and see us for lasting relief from pain and improved performance. You can book online or call anytime to learn more.
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CONTACT BAREFOOT TODAY TO START A MORE COMPLETE PHYSIOTHERAPY TREATMENT
Contact us for a holistic, thorough physiotherapy treatment. Our Physiotherapists can help you feel better and regain confidence in your long-term health. Call us today on 1300 842 850 to discuss booking options, or make an appointment online. Don’t just settle for discomfort, see if our treatments can offer some relief for you today.
Barefoot Physiotherapy —
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Our Barefoot dry needling Brisbane services will provide effective injury management, pain relief and muscle relaxation to get you back moving comfortably.
Here at Barefoot Physiotherapy, we regularly rely on dry needling as part of a multi-disciplinary approach to managing pain or an injury. The fine needles work to relax overactive muscles and improve the range of movement in affected areas which are often limited by tension and discomfort.