Physical Therapists: Bringing Crowning Performance to Athletes

Posted by Dr. Donna M. Copertino on December 11th, 2015

The sustaining injury is often the main reason people seek physical therapy. However, many people, particularly athletes and those into active fitness, find that physical therapy offers many great benefits to their overall health and physical performance. Whether you are into contact sports like basketball, rugby, or football, weightlifting, tennis, marathons, decathlons, or any other intense sport that requires extensive physical activity, physical therapy can benefit you by keeping you in shape, boosting your overall health, and helping you prevent future injuries, much like training does.

Just the same, sports injuries remain to be the most compelling reason athletes go into therapy. These injuries commonly affect the bones or the soft tissues (muscles, ligaments, or tendons), resulting from acute trauma and even repetitive stress due to strenuous and intense physical activity. These kinds of injuries affect athletes as well as workers in occupations requiring repetitive activity. The term "sports" is used quite loosely in this context as it encompasses any activity that involves great physical exertion. For instance, gardening activities like hoeing, raking, bending, and pulling and their resulting muscle/tissue/joint strains can interfere with a person's comfort and activity, just as an athlete's knee pain will interfere with his performance.

Physical therapy plays a key role in a sport's injury's healing process, whether it was sustained because of an actual sport or some everyday activity. The sooner you begin physical therapy, the sooner you will reap the benefits that it offers, especially when it comes to restoring your health and enhancing your performance. The sooner you can get to the bottom of the pains and aches you experience, the sooner your therapist can find the best therapies to help you regain your body's function. Evaluating your case is an important first step in discovering what needs to be done for your rehabilitation.

The ultimate goal of every physical therapy program is for the patient to be able to return to his or her activities without being restricted or limited by his or her previous injury. Traditionally, the most basic therapy for simple aches and pains involved simple resting, icing, compression, and elevation. Today, however, physical therapists encourage movement and a wide range of other techniques to help patients speed up healing and regain strength and range of movement for their problematic body parts. Physical therapy helps decrease the sufferer's pain, increase his strength, improve his range of motion, and restore, or even improve the body's function. Physical therapy courses and programs largely depend on the individual case as well as the severity of the injury.

About the Author:-

Based in Bath, Pennsylvania, Back in Action Chiropractic Rehabilitation is an athletic performance training center that works with athletes to improve their performance, prevent injury and reduce pain. We offer chiropractic and physical therapy and personal training with corrective exercise. We perform functional movement assessments, gait analysis and sport specific mechanical evaluation. We are certified ART (Active Release Technique) Providers. Evaluations to determine a drop in performance is our specialty, and our uniqueness is that we work one on one exclusively with our athlete from start to finish. Move better to Perform better is our motto.