Sports injuries are common, sadly most of us don’t get paid to do our chosen sport so we have limited opportunity to train. This means that most of the time we are doing the day job, sat at a desk or on our feet all day not really using our body much – then come the weekend we go out for a cycle or run without a thought for how our body has to adapt.
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Obviously, the best thing to do is avoid getting injured in the first place, but that isn’t always easy – you don’t choose to fall off the horse or trip over running. However, there are things you can do like make sure you are equipped for your sport – if running, wear good shoes, if cycling, get the right bike for your chosen terrain and have it fitted (this link is for a DIY road and mountain bike fit, but if you want to get more serious, get the bike fitted professionally) and always wear a cycle helmet they do work!
Also warming up is useful, anyone who watches rugby will be used to the players on exercise bikes by the pitch or footballers going through a series of sprints and drills to get the body ready for sport. If your sport is at a class they will take you through a warm-up, but if it is just you exercising on your own, a warm-up is beneficial.
However, if you are unlucky enough to get injured, we can help. What we will do is look at your injury and the mechanism of how it happened – an argument with the ground off a horse or argument with a pothole in the forest, as this can help diagnose what tissue is involved.
We will then treat and advise you on how best to help yourself and get back to exercise as soon as possible – once it is safe to do so.
Our Osteopaths have extensive experience in Sports injury, Steven Orton has a Masters in sports injury and was working at London 2012 and Greg Guillon has a masters in Physical Education and was a tennis professional in his native France.