Sports Therapy

As a trained osteopath and practised massage therapist, combined with plenty of sports injury experience, I am ideally placed to help you with all your requirements from tired muscles to injury rehabilitation.

P Tired, aching muscles from an event or intense training
P Acute, chronic or repetitive soft tissue injuries (sprains, strains, tears...)
P Inflammatory conditions (tendonitis, bursitis, ...)
P Recovery from injury (assisting or undoing compensatory muscle patterns)
P Advice on injury prevention

These are very broad, catch all categories since the list would be very long but include the specific injuries like tennis elbow, knee ligament strains, plantar fasciitis, etc.   

Treatments

Sports Injury

If you have a sporting injury that you would like assessed and treated then this be considered as an osteopathic session, please read An Osteopathic Approach.  The initial consultation will last about 40 minutes and any subsequent sessions will be about 30 minutes. Each session costs £35.

Deep Tissue/Sports Massage

Have you just walked the West Highland Way or climbed Ben Nevis and need to revitalise your legs?  Possibly you are an athlete and training for an up coming event? Whatever your situation I can tailor a massage to your needs. These techniques include light effleurage, cross-fibre and longitudinal massage, inhibition and deep friction.

  £35 for 35 minutes (e.g. 1/2 body massage)

Laser Treatment

Laser treatments for injuries often require more regular applications than just once a week but they also require less time if the treatment area is relatively small.  Hence a combination of massage and Laser treatment is offered in blocks of 10 minute sessions. For more information please refer to the Photomedicine page.

  £10 for each 10 minutes required.

An Osteopathic Approach

An osteopath (with a minimum of 4 years training) has a detailed anatomical knowledge of the whole body, not just the back. We learn about the common sporting injuries and can detect how your body is adjusting to compensate for that injury.

We can assist quick healing in many different ways.

Firstly, by identifying your injury we can provide advice on how to avoid further damage and how to create the best environment for the healing to take place.

Secondly, you are likely to experience the body's normal response to injury of inflammation and over protective tightening of the local muscles and those activated to compensate for the injury. Osteopaths are able to intervene to reduce the exaggerated or prolonged inflammatory response, loosen the tight muscles and help the body cope with the compensatory body position.

Thirdly, the osteopath will try to give the affected area the best chance of quick healing by encouraging the lymphatic drainage away from the area, and ensuring unimpeded blood flow into and out of the tissues. Hence bringing the nutrients and energy required for tissue repair and removing the unwanted by-products of this repair process. Some soft tissue injuries also benefit from external influences on the alignment of the individual collagen fibres that are laid down, rather than the haphazard mesh that would normally occur - this helps to prevent future injury.

Lastly, your osteopath will try to ascertain any factors from your lifestyle, training programme, other poor functioning areas of your body etc to understand why this injury occurred and how best to avoid a future occurrence.

If you are unsure whether an osteopath can help you with your sports injury then please give me a call and we can have a chat about it.