Aches and pains can reduce your ability to participate in all sports and will impair or reduce your performance. A visit to a qualified physiotherapist can eliminate these restrictions from your chosen sport and hence improve your overall result. Prevention is better than cure – Advice will be given on both injury prevention and management.
Are you about to restart/ start/ advance your sport or activities? We can help! See us for Profile & Perform.
Sports profiling is the analysis of your body posture, movements, strength and control and is used to identify areas of reduced strength, flexibility and stability. This then allows the physiotherapist to construct a personalised exercise programme targeted to your identified needs. This can minimise risk of injury by eliminating weaknesses and restoring imbalances. Your performance can also be enhanced by excelling your movements and making them more efficient.
This can improve normal every day posture and movement, but can also be sports specific to ensure you are performing at your best. "See your profile, enhance your performance"
Pilates is an exercise method that begins movements from a central core and is designed to promote core stability, flexibility, muscular endurance, postural and body awareness and correct muscle imbalances.
Each of the 34 matwork exercises are progressed by the use of limb movements to further challenge the central core. Precision of movement, awareness of breathing and continued flow of movement restore abnormal movement patterns. Pilates is an excellent method for realigning and strengthening the body for its own purpose, or in adjunct to physiotherapy or training programmes to alleviate aches and pains and enhance your body's performance.
Exercises can also be tailored to your specific sport. As each sport has different demands on your body, the therapist will work closely with you to identify your needs and provide the exercises you specifically require to meet, and exceed these challenges.
The therapist providing pilates instruction has trained with the Australian Physiotherapy and Pilates Institute (APPI); The world leader in Pilates training and is actively involved in continued professional development with the APPI. This enhances her development of both tailored 1-2-1 programmes and group classes.
You will receive thorough assessment and treatment by a qualified physiotherapist following which a management plan will be agreed and explained to you thoroughly. An appropriate treatment will be given and we will advise you on how you can maximise this with home exercises. If we are unable to help, we will direct you towards other professionals who may be in a position to offer different advice/management.
