ONLINE REHABILITATION PROGRAM

Sports Physiotherapists are specialists in sports injury management. This includes the diagnosis of the injury and the best management and rehabilitation plan to get you back to doing what you love.

Sports Physiotherapists do everything from hands-on on treatment (massage, joint mobilisations & dry needling) to gym and field based exercise programming and coaching. The team of sports physiotherapists are specialists in sport injury management and rehabilitation and we are designed to provide you with everything you need to recover from your sports injury with the best possible outcome.

We believe that no one treatment is on its own able to ‘fix’ an injury. It is the combination of many different treatments and managements, prescribed optimally and executed consistently that create the best outcomes. ‘Treatment’ at Rehab Advantage could include any or all of the following:

• Advice & Education

• Manual therapy or joint mobilisations

• Joint Manipulations

• Soft Tissue release - massage and trigger point therapy

• Mobility & Stretching

• Dry Needling

• Muscle Stimulation

• Blood Flow Restriction (BFR)

• Exercises - everything from light rehabilitation exercises to full gym based strength & conditioning programs

• Coached gym and field training

• Cryotherapy & Thermotherapy - cold and heat based treatment utilising a GameReady Med4 Elite Machine.

There are a range of different machines that can be used to assist in sports injury healing and recovery. We believe that the most beneficial ones are temperature (cryotherapy (cold) or thermotherapy (heat)) and pressure based.

Depending on your condition, we would provide advice on the best option to assist in your healing and recovery. We have a GameReady Med4 Elite machine which gives all of the options of hot, cold and contrast at different levels of compression.

Additionally, we have blood flow restriction (BFR), Compex and recovery boots accessible and utilised to assist in your injury management and rehabilitation.

Sports injury rehabilitation can be broken down into 6 key steps or stages.

1. Tissue Repair - This is when we need to protect the injured tissue and make sure it heals optimally.

2. Reloading - returning to normal functional movement patterns with the restoration of full range of motion and function.

3. Rebuilding - in this step we look to build the injured area back up in strength & power . Returning to Run

4. Return to Training - guided staged return to training or sport and fitness activities starting with controlled skills, progressing to full sports training.

5. Return to Sport - Full functional recovery, returning fully to participate in sport or unrestricted fitness activities.

6. Resilience & Injury Prevention - the ongoing injury prevention training to make sure you maintain your strength and continue to be resilient to sporting injury.