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Sports Injury Therapy

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Sports injury therapy is a type of therapy that treats muscle, joint, ligament or tendon injuries. It utilises stretching, strengthening and mobilising the affected area as part of its treatment process. Sports injury therapy is not only available to athletes or professional sportspeople but can also be used for people that suffer injuries or trauma in their everyday lives, whether this trauma is through exercise or simple accidents. The therapy aims to first relieve pain and then to restore function to the injured area of the body and optimal function to the body as a whole.

Sports Injury Therapists

Sports injury therapists perform the following functions:

treatment and rehabilitation of injuries
increase fitness and mobility
injury preventionimprove athletic performance
draw up treatment plans appropriate to the client
use therapeutic modalities such as ice packs, heat packs, TENS machines, bandages and massage in the treatment of injuries

Sports injury professionals such as sports naturopaths can prescribe medicines and supplements that are of benefit to the patient in order to complement the treatment program and to improve recovery. Professionals may work in private practice, as part of a sporting team or club, sports medicine clinics or fitness centres such as gyms.

Conditions Treated

Professionals can treat a wide range of injuries from strains and sprains to more severe injuries such as muscle tears and torn or snapped ligaments or tendons. Basically, if you have injured yourself during exercise or injured one of the soft tissue areas of your body, a sports injury therapist is able to help you.

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References

Cryotherapy
Cryotherapy simply means the use of cold as a therapy. When a person is injured, the most common response by the body is pain or muscle spasms.
http://www.naturaltherapypages.com.au/article/cryotherapy

Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS)
Have you ever exercised and found that you have been sore for days afterwards? It’s actually not an injury but a common phenomenon known as delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS).
http://www.naturaltherapypages.com.au/article/delayed_onset_muscle_soreness

Emu Oil
Emu oil has been used by the Aborigines for thousands of years due to its healing properties
http://www.naturaltherapypages.com.au/article/Emu_Oil

Tennis Elbow
Tennis elbow is a common injury but, despite the name, it is not just caused by playing tennis. It can be caused by any repetitive action of the arm and can be defined as a form of tendonitis. However, you don’t have to rely on medications to manage the
http://www.naturaltherapypages.com.au/article/tennis_elbow

Associations

ATMS - Australian Traditional Medicine Society

Australian Association for Exercise and Sports Science (AAESS)


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