How Physiotherapy Can Help You Recover After a Sports Injury

If there is one thing that aspiring and professional athletes fear most, it is sports injuries. Depending on their severity, injuries can crush an amateur’s dreams of going pro. But not all injuries are fatal or permanent. The more common variety of injuries allow most people to return to peak performance with the right treatment.

For fast healing and recovery following a sports injury, we recommend physiotherapy treatment. Depending on the type of injury and its treatment, sports therapy can relieve postoperative pain and pressure points, and in the process, restore or improve range of motion. Beyond injury rehabilitation, sports therapy supports regular conditioning for posture correction, muscle strain relief, and resistance build-up to prevent future injuries.

Did you recently suffer an injury? Don’t let it take away your love of the game or end a promising career. Whether you’re a budding athlete or a pro player, here’s how sports therapy in Thornhill can aid in your recovery and help you become the best athlete you can be:

What is sports therapy and why do athletes need it?

You don’t have to be a pro athlete to experience the sharp pain of a cramp or muscle strain and its lingering discomfort; virtually any activity that involves over-exertion or balance can strain your muscles and joints. However, for athletes, the pressure to recover is much higher: they need their bodies in peak condition to stay in the game.

This type of physiotherapy is explicitly designed for athletes who suffer from sports injuries and need to treat specific muscles and joints on which their career rests. Sports therapy involves physical exercises for retraining muscles and restoring an optimal range of motion.

While starting as a rehabilitative treatment, athletes can continue with sports therapy for conditioning and endurance building, which reduces their susceptibility to future injuries in the same area or other parts of the body.

Benefits of Injury Rehabilitation with Sports Therapy

The health and wellness benefits of sports therapy are endless. Not only does it allow athletes to recover faster, but it also builds them back up to be healthier and better through endurance training and increased flexibility:

1. Improve muscle and joint flexibility

Whether you’re a swimmer, runner, or a football or basketball player, sports therapy allows you to regain pre-injury strength and flexibility and even build up your endurance through ongoing conditioning.

Sports therapy helps athletes like you improve their range of motion, which can be severely diminished by a traumatic injury, and strengthen your muscles and joints to enhance resistance against future injuries.

Physiotherapists help athletes improve flexibility through a range of stretching and conditioning exercises. These reduce the risk of strain even from the roughest plays once they’re back on the field.

2. Accelerate recovery

Injuries cause bruising, swelling, and immense pain in muscles and joints essential to movement like running, swimming and jumping. When an athlete is injured, they can’t participate in these activities and must recover before returning to the game. That’s why severe injuries can end careers — and are feared most by athletes at peak performance.

Along with surgery, casts, and medication, sports therapy promotes muscle repair and healing so that athletes can regain pre-injury strength, flexibility, and motion range. From controlled exercises like stretching to massages and administering ice packs, sports therapy reduces swelling, increases blood flow and nutrient delivery, and provides long-term pain relief.

Sports therapy also raises endorphin levels in the brain, which helps ward off stress and block pain signals. As a result, athletes are more resilient and are less susceptible to injuries and pain.

3. Relieve sore muscles

What do you do with sore points? You rub and massage them for relief. People of all ages and fitness levels suffer from the occasional muscle strain and soreness — especially athletes who are always active and exerting their muscles.

Sports therapy treats muscle soreness caused by overtraining and stress. It’s especially helpful for those athletes just getting back on the field or starting a new exercise regimen. Sports therapy programs include conditioning exercises and massages to treat pain and inflammation. Combined with safe exercising techniques, sports therapy allows athletes to train longer and harder without experiencing discomfort or accidentally straining their muscles. You can find that many clinics that use physiotherapy marketing services often have sports therapy as a treatment option.

4. Injury prevention

Sports therapy isn’t just rehabilitative — its most significant benefit is in long-term strengthening and injury prevention. Physiotherapists can offer advice on exercising safely, avoiding injuries, training continuously, and improving endurance. Therapists can even customize workouts for strengthening and flexibility, so athletes can effectively work out weaker spots.

With regular conditioning, strengthening, and flexibility exercises, sports therapy can help them grow resilient, so they can easily exert more energy in winning plays while reducing susceptibility to future injuries. Simply, because their muscles and joints are conditioned, they’re less likely to strain or injure with regular movement and exertion.

5. Boost athletic performance

The best players are healthy players, and that’s what sports therapy guarantees. More than buzzer-beater plays and sheer strength, athletes go on to win titles because they follow proper nutrition, get enough rest, and recover from minor injuries faster.

Sports therapy boosts recovery, and in the process, helps athletes grow more robust and play better with improved movement patterns, corrected muscular imbalances, and increased mobility. Sports therapy achieves this through a combination of exercises that boost functional fitness and motor control, which makes core and back muscles stronger, joints more flexible, and reaction times shorter.

To learn more about how sports physiotherapy in Thornhill can help you recover from an injury, call PhysioActive at (905) 695‐0371 or contact us here.

Zach Apter

2024-06-05

I saw Pooria. He was great all 4 sessions and so were the rest of the staff. Got me back to normal in no time! Highly reccomend.

Leonora Buskin

2024-05-05

I highly recommend Chiropractor Zachary Starr. Highly professional and his treatment resolved my TMJ for the long-term. He also supported with supplying exercises to carry on the treatment at home in relation to treatment of TMJ and improvement of posture.

Bayla Perelman

2024-05-02

After many months of being in pain and countless of doctor’s appointments and tests, no one was able to understand my pain or help me. However, during my first appointment with Thomas he was able to locate and finally ease my pain! Thank you!

Li You

2024-04-22

After finishing treatment from Monica. I have felt that any symptoms of sourness and stiffness in me just disappeared by themselves. During the miracle treatment, I feel her kindness and passion for medical treatment methods. Beyond, those, her combined knowledge of acupuncture and massage is the fact that she is so focused on the results of the treatment that after one or two sessions, I have already gotten the best outcome that I have ever experienced. I would say that she has an angel's fingers. It is an incredible wonder. It is an ancient way that she understands and practices so well to heal your health from the physical body to the eternal soul. I highly recommend this rehabilitation center and Monica to someone who is looking for the best medical treatment from the most caring practitioner.

Inna Kakoian

2024-04-08

Highly recommend PhysioActive. Winnie (physiotherapist) helped me a lot following my knee injury (injured ACL & MCL). She is very knowledgeable and one of the areas she specializes in is nerve work all over the body. Words can’t describe how amazing Winnie is at what she does. Originally she did ultrasound massage to reduce inflamation and swelling in my knee. Then she started doing some work with her hands. At the end of each appointment she would put my legs into a magnetic wheel that works at a cellular level and actually helped reduce pain. She also assigned exercises to do at home which helped too. Later I also started seeing Mina (osteopath), and he’s also very talented, knowledgeable and gentle. My foot, even though it wasn’t injured, was having trouble adjusting after many months of inactivity and was achy, so I ordered orthotics to put inside my shoes, which made a huge difference, and this was done through their chiropodist Vincent (the pair of orthotics he ordered for me is perfect). The front desk staff is great too, especially Negin and Armine. If you’re newly injured and lost, please hang in there as it will get better, and this is one great clinic that can help.

Melanie Heilbronn

2024-03-20

Nicholas Biasini is the man with magic hands. Thanks so much for your exercises and hands on work. Really appreciate the speedy and effective resolution of my neck pain.

Melissa Custoreri

2024-03-14

I have been a client at Physioactive since 2010 and continue to have a wonderful experience. My bookings are always easy and efficient via telephone and in person, through Physioactive’s organized, knowledgeable and friendly staff members. Appointment booking emails and reminders are always provided, as well as follow-up check ins between longer visits. The clinic is clean and organized. Physiotherapists, Nick and Aparna, and Massage Therapist, Shirley, have been critical in my physical healing from injuries and and preparation and recovery postpartum. I constantly leave the clinic AMAZED by their knowledge, ultimate care, and physical relief. I would HIGHLY recommend Physioactive to all!

Sheena Weisman

2024-03-14

Amazing clinic, would highly recommend! After a very sudden onset of severe sciatica, Thomas and the physioactive team were increadible. No appointments were available for 5 days, but once Thomas realized the degree of discomfort I was in he made extra appointment time to see me that same day and the next few days. His assessment was thorough and treatment very quickly reduced my nerve pain. He explained in detail the physiology likely causing the problem, and his plan to tackle not only the acute pain but over time to eventually resolve the underlying musculoskeletal problems that were likely causing it. I am increadibly grateful to him and his team and would definitely recommend Physioactive.

Amanda Chan

2024-03-13

Since my left fibula fracture was cleared for physio, while I was in crutches I have been going to Physioactive since last November. I cannot say anymore good things about this place, each physiotherapist I had seen in the beginning were good at working together to ensure my file was consistently up to date. Fast forward March, I walk now as if I have never sustained a fracture. Highly recommend and lots of exercises that cater to each phase of healing!!