Sports Injuries

Specialist assessment, treatment, pain management and rehabilitation

A sports injury is immensely frustrating. To perform at your best, it is important to understand how the sport you play demands your body to work and ensure your muscles are conditioned appropriately.

The Waldegrave Clinic’s private gym and experience of working with elite and recreational sports people means we are well equipped to offer you the necessary one to one attention, to help your body perform to optimum efficiency.

The continuity of care we offer ensures there is constant communication between the practitioners managing your pain and helping you to get fitter. There is a 3 step approach we use to treat you.

• Biomechanical assessment: we assess your strength, balance and flexibility to determine any weaknesses and imbalances in your posture, gait and various muscle groups that are likely to be causing you injury. This will accurately diagnose the right pain management you need and how to prevent the injury returning.
• Address and treat your injury problem: treatment methods using chiropractic or physiotherapy, integrating with complementary therapies and the strength and conditioning team if necessary, will manage your injury.
• Training programme analysis: we look at the scientific principles around your exercise to assess whether you are using the right principles and that your training programme has been designed well for your ability.

Stretches and exercises designed for your needs carried out under our professional supervision ensure that injuries heal well and when you return to your normal levels of activity you do so stronger than you were before. 

Dietary advice is also available from our sports dietitian to ensure your diet supports your training goals

Commonly associated sports injuries and how we treat them

• Runners: Many unnecessary injuries occur through ‘weekend syndrome’ that sees over exertion at weekends when maybe your lifestyle during the week has been more sedentary. Professional assessment and management will help protect your body and keep you running.
• Racquet sports: Specialist equipment at the Waldegrave Clinic will measure the strength and range of a particular muscle in line with what your game demands. We then design a programme to appropriately train the muscles to work at the right strength and through the appropriate range, for optimum efficiency and performance.
• Contact sports: The Waldegrave Clinic sports studio hosts a range of Olympic size weights to maximise your resistance and power training, the difference being under our supervision all training is performed with absolute care management for your spine and any areas that have shown potential for weakness.
• Endurance sports: For professional athletes we fully assess and manage how your training is structured at different times of your athletic calendar, so that you are performing to your peak during competition times and maintaining your fitness off season.
• Rowers: Amongst rowers there is a high incidence of low back pain from the excessive rotation and hyperextension during the rowing technique. Other injuries may include rib injuries and muscle strains in the arm and elbow. Professional assessment and pain management at the Waldegrave Clinic will identify the cause and manage symptoms with progressive sport specific rehabilitation.

To book an appointment please telephone 020 8943 2424