Sports Injuries

A-LevelPhysical Education

Physiotherapy & Sports Massage

*Sports massage involves the use of massage techniques to muscles and connective tissue.

*The benefits can be increased flexibility and reduced soreness.

*It can help to prevent injury as well as recover from intense sessions and injury.

*It can relieve the body of DOMS symptoms.

Proprioceptive retraining

Proprioception

*The body’s awareness of position, posture, movement and state of balance.

*We require our body to be fully aware of each of these in order to produce fluid movements.

*Our sources of information for this are the proprioceptors in our joints, muscles and tendons, as well as from auditory and visual senses.

Basic Proprioception Training (Ankle)

Advances Proprioception Training

Train like spiderman

Hyperbaric Chambers

*Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy involves the inhalation of oxygen at a higher pressure than normal.

*It promotes white blood cell activity at the injured area which helps to manage infections.

*It also reduces blood flow by constricting blood vessels, which reduces pressure and swelling.

Oxygen Tents

…provide an oxygen rich environment for athletes in an attempt to increase VO2max or recover from injury.

*These tents can be small, localised tenets that cover the head and shoulders, or whole-body tents.

Hypoxic Tents

…provides a contrasting environment to Oxygen Tents, with reduced oxygen to simulate high altitude.

*The aim is to utilise the body’s natural adaptation to reduced oxygen – increased red blood cells and haemoglobin.

*These adaptations ensure more oxygen is available to the athlete during exercise at normal altitude.

Other uses of technology for Sports Injuries

*CAT scans

*X-rays

*MRI scans

*Ultrasound

*Acupuncture