Sports Injuries
Sports injuries are common and often quick and simple to treat. At the Reinge clinic we are perfectly placed to deal with your sports injury, whatever level of sport you take part in.
Should you require a scan or x-ray, we are able to provide a referral directly to a private scanning company to get you the information you need quickly and efficiently.
What makes us different?
Both Gina and Ian have a degree in Sports Science, meaning we understand biomechanics and how the forces involved in sport can cause injuries.
In addition Gina and Ian are both Sports Therapists, who are trained specifically in the assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of sporting injuries.
Traumatic injuries
Most sporting injuries are traumatic in nature. If you have an acute pain following sport, have had a tackle and now can't move a joint, or have a large amount of swelling or bruising you should seek immediate help usually via A&E.
If the injury is of a more mild level, it would be better to spend a few days icing the injury before seeking physiotherapy help. This because swelling makes it very difficult to assess an area properly.
If you ice for 10 minutes an hour for a couple of days, the injury may calm down by itself, but if it doesn't, we will then be able to assess it fully, as the swelling will have subsided.
If you injured yourself and despite icing and rest, it hasn't improved after 2 weeks, you should certainly be booking in for an assessment.
Non traumatic injuries
If you have pain whilst doing sport, but have had no traumatic incident. The chances are that this is a biomechanical problem.
We are perfectly placed to look at your body and understand why your muscles may be under or over working.
We understand sport, having worked in professional sports. We understand the demand and forces that are placed on the body, and we understand how to strength train your body to limit your injury risk.
Let us assume you are a Judo player and you have weakness in your hand grip strength, so are having pain and problems when participating in your chosen sport.
As your hand / forearm muscles get tired, the muscle fibres shorten, limiting your force generation, which will feel to you, like weakness. The body will try to compensate for this, by using other muscles to help, in this case the muscles of the upper arm.
Over time these muscles will also shorten and become tight, these muscles are supported by the shoulder muscles.
So you may come in to us saying your shoulder is hurting, but in fact the lack of strength in your hands is the problem that needs to be solved, to both fix the pain and help you with your chosen sport.