What is Sports Therapy?
Over the years Sports Therapy has progressed from just treating 'injured athletes', to dealing with many common muscular complaints such as back pain, mobility problems, postural problems and work related conditions.
Sports Therapy is an aspect of healthcare that is specifically concerned with the Prevention of injury and the rehabilitation of the patient back to optimum levels of Function, occupational and sports specific fitness. It utilises the principles of Sport and Exercise sciences incorporating physiological and pathological processes to prepare the participant for training, competition and where applicable work.
In the sporting arena, a Sports Therapist helps injured athlete’s return to full functionality, after injury. Injuries treated vary according to the sport or activity involved. Clients include professional and amateur sportspeople, people who keep fit for fun, and accident victims. A qualified Sports Therapist advises on prevention of injuries and can examine, assess and treat those that do occur, as well as helping with the rehabilitation process.
Sports Therapy has become widely used in the corporate world, as a way for companies to assess and treat many work related problems such as back pain and what is commonly known as 'repetitive strain injury'.
At the moment in the UK, Sports Therapy is unregulated, a situation that is currently changing, with new Statutory Regulations being developed. Anyone can call themselves a Sports Therapist, or Sports Masseur, without even having a qualification. Usually these people are uninsured. Terry’s Injury Clinic is fully CRB checked and Insured to treat patients.