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]]>For those who like to participate in sports regularly, it is important to be aware of some of the most common sports injuries for a few reasons. It can help to know what to expect from the process of recovery, but it can be even more useful to be able to recognize the injuries and work to avoid such injuries or to at least reduce the likelihood of them occurring.
Below, you will find 4 of the most common sports injuries.
This is by far one of the most common injuries resulting from playing sports. An ankle sprain involves the foot turning, usually inward, which results in an overextension and stretching of the ligaments on the outside of the ankle.
This can be treated with specific exercises and movements your physiotherapist can give to you. For ankle sprains, it’s imperative to keep the ankle mobile and moving so there isn’t a loss of either strength or flexibility, even temporarily.
It’s easy to pull your groin trying to save a goal or extend to receive a pass. Groin strains usually occur from a side to side motion, where the muscles on your groin or on the upper quadrant of your inner thigh are literally pulled due to a sudden movement.
Since a “pull” might sound like a “sprain” to many people, it’s easy to assume that exercise would be beneficial for recovering from a groin sprain. However, initially, you should rely on cold compresses and rest to help yourself recover from pulling your groin muscle.
Shin splints are usually caused by excessive running. The repetitive nature of running, especially when combined with running on a hard surface such as a concrete roadway, can easily cause shin splints.
Similarly with groin pulls, it’s best to focus on rest when recuperating from shin splints. Halt your exercise routine temporarily and avoid any high impact workouts.
Another common sport injury is the ACL tear. This can, at times, be just a strain, but it’s possible that it can become a more serious tear.
A severe ACL injury involves the tearing of the anterior cruciate ligament, which is responsible for holding the bone of your leg to your knee. This is one of the more complex sports injuries, compared to the others listed here, and requires medical supervision during recovery.
It is possible that recovery might begin with surgery, followed by necessary rest, physiotherapy and then reintroducing exercise to strengthen and regain mobility.
It is important that those who suffer from an ACL tear treat this injury seriously and cautiously if they wish to remain physically active later on.
If you are suffering from a sports injury and are looking to undergo physiotherapy, consider Team Theraputix. Team Theraputix has been Ontario’s most advanced rehabilitation and wellness centre for more than a decade.
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]]>That is why it’s important to listen to your body and to try to stay attuned to what it is telling you. Nevertheless, there are some specific rules that one should likely try to follow in order to make the recovery process as smooth and as effective as possible.
In general, during recovery, patients need to strike a good balance between activity, such as exercise to promote strength and recovery, and rest, in order to let the body heal itself. Nevertheless, it is important to realize that almost all experts will state that it is better to be active and to exercise on your road to recovery than it is to be stagnate.
One study, conducted by Dr. Brian J. Shiple, an orthopedic surgeon from Pennsylvania, discovered that patients who were recommended to exercise during recovery, reported less pain and greater flexibility, than those who were instructed to bed rest.
Remember to take your time and move easy. Listen to your body and pay close attention to how it responds to your exercises. Introduce new movements gradually, maybe adding one new movement a day and then seeing how you feel afterward.
If anything feels like it’s causing too much discomfort, let off a little before pushing yourself again.
Do not start off with heavy impact exercises. Begin lightly, with exercises such as bike riding, walking, or stretching. Do not go directly into running or playing sports.
The goal is to regain flexibility and help overcome pain, not to injure yourself further and set your recovery back significantly.
While it may seem like you should only focus on exercises involving your back, this is not true. It is very important to have a well rounded workout regime and to focus on strengthening your core as well.
Your core is a group of muscles in centre of your body including the abdomen, back muscles and pelvic muscles. These muscles are important because they support your spine. The more support your spine has, the better it can heal and the less likely it is to feel pain due to lack of support.
If you are suffering from back pain and are looking to undergo physiotherapy, consider Team Theraputix. Team Theraputix has been Ontario’s most advanced rehabilitation and wellness centre for more than a decade.
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]]>Physiotherapists deliver treatment through the use of manual therapy, therapeutic exercise as well as electro-physical modalities.
This blog post is all about the conditions that physiotherapy can treat. The reality is that physiotherapy can treat much more than just two conditions. For the sake of this blog post, however, we have simply lumped two categories of illnesses together, as you will see below.
Physiotherapists have a lot of knowledge as to how the body works as well as practical, clinical-based skills to both diagnose and treat those symptoms.
There are also more specialized forms of physiotherapy, including neurological physiotherapy and orthopedic physiotherapy, both of which can help with numerous other conditions as well.
With this in mind, here is a look at the conditions that physiotherapy can treat:
In these cases, neurological physiotherapy is used to boost the message pathways that the brain is struggling to use; through repetitive actions and exercises, new pathways are formed. Here, physiotherapy can be used to restore a loss of balance, loss of hand, arm or foot function as well as issues with walking. It can also be used to improve pain.
Orthopedic physiotherapy is used to treat issues with the musculoskeletal system. It does so by improving the person’s strength and range of motion following an injury or illness. Orthopedic physiotherapy can treat issues such as acute sports injuries, arthritis and amputations. It can also treat the challenges that arise from sciatic pain and repetitive strain injuries. It can also help those undergoing cancer treatment (specifically lymphedema).
There is some overlap between orthopedic physiotherapy and neurological physiotherapy; by this, we mean to say that orthopedic physiotherapy can also treat some of the same conditions that neurological physiotherapy can treat. This includes, for example, stroke, Parkinson’s disease and Multiple Sclerosis.
If you are looking to undergo physiotherapy, consider Team Theraputix. Team Theraputix has been Ontario’s most advanced rehabilitation and wellness centre for more than a decade.
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]]>So, while antibiotics are often the first course of treatment for those with Lyme disease, many doctors also recommend hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) to fight off Lyme disease as well. If you’re unfamiliar with hyperbaric oxygen therapy, it is medical treatment that involves inhaling 100% oxygen in a total-body chamber where the atmospheric pressure is safely increased and controlled.
By inhaling 100% oxygen, the body’s ability to heal is improved. This process will be discussed in more detail below. HBOT is a simple, painless and non-invasive treatment.
The short answer to this question is, yes, hyperbaric oxygen therapy can treat Lyme disease. Medical studies have shown that HBOT has significantly improved Lyme disease symptoms, including mental confusion, pain, depression and fatigue. In the cited study, 70% of patients experienced lasting benefits as well.
To understand how this process works, it’s important to understand how HBOT works. Normally, your body carries oxygen via your red blood cells. However, with HBOT, oxygen enters into many different areas of your body, including the central nervous system fluids. In doing so, oxygen is able to reach damaged areas of the body more effectively and improve the healing process. In fact, HBOT delivers oxygen to the tissue up to 25 times more than normal circumstances. For instance, the increase in oxygen leads to white blood cells killing more bacteria and other healing benefits as well.
The reason why HBOT is effective in treating symptoms of Lyme disease is because the bacterium that causes Lyme disease is anaerobic, which means that it can’t survive in oxygen. So, HBOT effectively reduces the number of bacterium in those with Lyme disease (while also improving the body’s natural ability to heal itself).
If you are looking to undergo hyperbaric oxygen therapy for Lyme disease, consider Team Theraputix. Team Theraputix has been Ontario’s most advanced rehabilitation and wellness centre for more than a decade.
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]]>Under normal circumstances, oxygen is transported throughout the body only by red blood cells. With HBOT, oxygen is dissolved into all of the body’s fluids, the plasma, the central nervous system fluids, the lymph, and the bone and can be carried to areas where circulation is diminished or blocked. In this way, extra oxygen can reach all of the damaged tissues and the body can support its own healing process. The increased oxygen greatly enhances the ability of white blood cells to kill bacteria, reduces swelling and allows new blood vessels to grow more rapidly into the affected areas. It is a simple, non-invasive and painless treatment.
It has long been known that healing many areas of the body cannot take place without appropriate oxygen levels in the tissue. Most illnesses and injuries occur, and often linger, at the cellular or tissue level. In many cases, such as: circulatory problems; non-healing wounds; and strokes, adequate oxygen cannot reach the damaged area and the body’s natural healing ability is unable to function properly. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy provides this extra oxygen naturally and with minimal side effects.
When cells in the brain die, either from trauma or lack of oxygen, blood plasma leaks out into surrounding brain tissue causing swelling and reducing blood flow. These otherwise normal cells go dormant because they can’t function without the appropriate amount of oxygen. HBOT dramatically increases the oxygen carried in the blood plasma, making oxygen available to heal damaged capillary walls, preventing plasma leakage and reducing swelling. As the swelling decreases, blood flow can be restored to the dormant tissue (neovascularization) and these cells then have the potential to function again.
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]]>A sports injury can be devastating to a professional athlete’s career. Professional athletes that are forced to miss practice or competition due to injury can face being cut from their team or non-renewed contracts. Because a professional athlete’s success is largely due to their body’s ability to perform at the highest level, many are turning to HBOT for quick recovery from injuries and workouts.
The majority of sports related injuries involve strains and sprains, which cause swelling and edema (accumulation of excess fluid in connective tissue). Coupling HBOT with traditional rehabilitation methods allows healing time to be significantly reduced permitting the athlete’s to return to training and competition much faster.
If you’re an injured runner, should you breathe in pure oxygen to hasten the healing process? Several English football teams used hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO3) to treat their players this year, apparently with excellent results. In one case, an athlete with ligament damage reduced recovery time by 33 per cent with hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and a second player receiving hyperbaric oxygen therapy recovered in only four days even though doctors had predicted a three-week lay-off.
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