Treatments

What is Physiotherapy?
"Physiotherapy is a health care profession concerned with human function and movement and maximising potential"

• it uses physical approaches to promote, maintain and restore physical, psychological and social well-being, taking account of variations in health status
• it is science-based, committed to extending, applying, evaluating and reviewing the evidence that underpins and informs its practice and delivery
• the exercise of clinical judgement and informed interpretation is at its core."

We perform a comprehensive variety of procedures including :-

Assessment
Through detailed questioning, skilled observation and performing diagnostic tests considering your muscles, joints, nerves and associated structures we will diagnose and explain your problem.

Re education of movement control
Rarely does an individual conform to normal. Our specialist knowledge in human movement and underpinning knowledge of anatomy and physiology of the human body will enable us prescribe exercise to correct movement faults, relieving musculoskeletal symptoms, preventing further injury and possibly enhancing performance.

Exercise functional rehabilitation
In the latter stages of rehabilitation it is necessary for exercise to be functional and specific to the intended activities to be performed. We will prescribe a suitable programme for your individual requirements.

With athlete matters you will feel that you are treated by a professional who understands the elite sportsman, who is aware of the demands of their training and who is capable of managing your return to elite competition.

Our team have been involved in sport at the highest level in athletics, triathlon and swimming. This includes the London Marathon, and European clubs Cross Country, Commonwealth Games and Grand Prix circuit, World Championships and Olympic Games as athletes. This reaffirms our insight into the levels of rehabilitation required for high performance.

Mobilisations and manipulations
These are core physiotherapy skills normally applied to joints, muscles or nerves, aimed at increasing range of motion, relieving pain and correcting alignment to improve movement patterns.

Massage

Sports Massage is increasingly being recognised as an important component of an athlete’s overall training plan. At athlete matters we see several athletes, including Great Britain International athletes on a regular basis, most monthly, some weekly, not to treat injuries, but to prevent them, we’d much prefer to treat you fit that treat you injured.

We achieve this by maintaining muscle tone and length, working to remodel scar tissue and to remove the metabolic waste resulting from hard training or competition. Sports massage is also an important component of our approach to physiotherapy rehabilitation of soft tissue injuries

Electrotherapy
Machines can be a useful adjunct to treatment, to enhance the rate of healing by increasing circulation, giving pain relief and giving feedback on muscle activity. We will use electrotherapy only when appropriate.

Prehabilitation
Prehabilitation is a service offered by Sports Specialist Physiotherapists who apply manual therapy techniques such as massage and manipulation along with prescribing exercises to treat movement dysfunction in athletes, with the aim of avoiding injury and enhancing performance, Our expertise have been required Internationally in this area, including speaking in Europe to Sports Doctors and Sports Physiotherapists on the role of core stability in prevention of injury.

Classes are run on a weekly basis, with around 12-14 participants to a class to ensure personal attention.

Including our unique, innovative and highly acclaimed athlete matters ™  athlete and triathlete Core stability classes. Our Chartered Physiotherapists properly understand the low load concepts of core stability and deliver programmes accordingly, and geared towards your sport.