Sports Physiotherapy
Experts In
Sports and Exercise Physiotherapy
Why Sports Physiotherapy?
Are you suffering from a sport injury? Or could you be suffering from a recurrent of the same niggling injury that you can’t get rid of. Are you training for an upcoming sporting competition or would love train and accomplish a once in a lifetime adventurous expedition such as trekking up Mount Everest, completing the Atacama Crossing, sea kayaking in Antarctica or cycling in the Tour De France, to check off your bucket list?
Returning to full sporting participation safely, following an injury, requires adequate and appropriate rehabilitation and management of the injury. Ensuring your musculoskeletal pain or niggling injury is managed professionally is of utmost importance so that you do not need to stop enjoying your love for physical activities and sport. Managing your injury and pain appropriately also ensures that you can train efficiently and complete your race or expedition with safety and pain-free.
Common Sports
These include and are not restricted to, running, swimming, fencing, kayak, canoeing, badminton, table tennis, combat sport, gymnastics, wushu, bowling, climbing, cycling and team sports (football, basketball, netball, water polo) etc. We are also experienced in managing injuries in musicians, dancers, and acrobats. We are skilled in providing you with a customised sport specific and athlete or patient-centred physiotherapy rehabilitation program, to help you get back to your sport and physical activities safely and in the shortest time frame possible.
We believe optimal injury rehabilitation and minimizing injury risk is crucial to optimising your musculoskeletal and mental health, sporting performance and quality of life.
Common Sports Injuries
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Sport: |
Conditions: |
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Running |
Ligament sprain or joint injury – Ankle, knee, finger, wrist, shoulder etc. |
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Throwing activities and Sport |
Muscle Strain – Hamstring, quadriceps, gastrocnemius (calf muscle strain) etc. |
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Swimming |
Tendon pain and injury – Achilles, patellar, adductor |
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Fencing |
Bone stress injuries |
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Canoeing, Kayaking, Dragon Boating, Rowing |
Acute / Traumatic Injuries – |
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Sailing |
Repetitive or overuse injuries: |
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Golf |
Spine, back, nerve injuries |
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Racket sport – Badminton, Tennis, Squash |
Foot Conditions – Overpronation, Oversupination |
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Table Tennis |
Musculoskeletal pain in Adolescent |
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Gymnastics – Artistic / rhythmic / trampoline |
Musculoskeletal pain in Master Athletes |
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Diving |
Concussion assessment and management |
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Wushu |
Ankle sprain, Hamstring strain and Knee Injury |
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Sport Climbing |
Shoulder, elbow, fingers injuries |
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Bowling, Lawn Bowl |
Shoulder tendonitis, “Bowler’s elbow,” also known as epicondylitis, fingers strain |
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Combat Sport and Martial Arts |
Fractures, groin strain, ankles, hamstrings and wrists sprains |
Choose Us For
Sports Injury Physiotherapy
Having former Team Lead Physiotherapist of Singapore Sports Institute (SSI) with more than 20 years of clinical experience as our anchor Sports Physiotherapist to manage this area of expertise with our team of physiotherapists, we are confident to help you get back into the game in the shortest time-frame possible, aiding you to safely recover, regain flexibility, strength and most importantly avoid further injury.
Our Sports Physiotherapists have the education, clinical expertise and experience to work with all types of sporting injuries at all levels, even for young athletes, including high- level performance sports in our clinics.
Sports Treatment Techniques
Manual Therapy
Manual Therapy refers to the use of skilled hand techniques to mobilize either the joints, soft tissues, muscles or fascia and skin to facilitates repair and tissue modelling. These manual techniques can stimulate the pain gates system within our neuro-musculoskeletal system; reduce nociceptive activity within the injured musculoskeletal environment or reduce intra-articular or peri-articular pressure to relief pain and improve pain-free range of motion.
Exercise Programmes For Injury Rehabilitation And Injury Risk Reduction
Our physiotherapists utilize various types of exercise prescription and techniques (including yoga, Pilates, functional movement training) or various types of exercise equipment such as resistance band, weights, straps etc, to target at improve mobility, Strength, balance or movement control to get you back to your full functional capacity.
Post-Surgical Rehabilitation For Full Return To Sport
Anyone who has undergone surgery knows that the road to recovery can be long and difficult. The good news is that physiotherapy can play a vital role in helping patients to recover from surgery and return to their previous level of activity.
Through a combination of exercises, stretching, and massage, physiotherapy can help to reduce pain, improve range of motion, and promote healing. What’s more, physiotherapy can also help to prevent the formation of scar tissue. As a result, patients who undergo physiotherapy after surgery are often able to return to their previous level of activity more quickly and with less pain.
Non-Surgical Management And Injury Rehabilitation
Injuries can occur anywhere at any time. It is important to get the right kind of rehabilitation to ensure a full and speedy recovery. Physiotherapy is a type of non-surgical management that helps patients regain movement and function following an injury. At BMJ, our physiotherapists help you to reduce pain, swelling, and inflammation while promoting recovery.
Functional & Injury-Specific Tests And Assessment
This professional assessment is purposed for determining a safe return to training, sports participation, and competitions. A sports injury assessment is a process used to determine if an athlete is physically capable of returning to their sport after sustaining an injury. This may include tests such as range of motion testing, strength testing, and flexibility testing. Only when the athlete has fully recovered from their injury and has met all medical clearance criteria should they be allowed to return to training and competition.
Sports Taping and Bracing
We are trained in various taping techniques ranging from rigid taping, kinesiology taping, and functional and dynamic taping.
Gait Analysis Or Functional Movement Assessment And Corrective Strategy
Gait analysis is the study of human movement during walking. It is also known as functional movement assessment. The main purpose of gait analysis is to identify movement abnormalities so that corrective strategies can be implemented. Gait analysis can be used to assess a person’s risk of developing injuries, and for improving rehabilitation outcomes.
Injury Prevention
Our physiotherapists also have a role in injury prevention. There are several injuries (including ankle sprains, anterior cruciate ligament tear and muscle injuries) for which the risk can be significantly reduced if a specific injury prevention program is used. These programs are typically not time intensive and can actually improve sporting performance as well.
Specific Sport Musculoskeletal Screening for sport performance enhancement
We conduct musculoskeletal screening and physical enhancement programs to prevent injuries and maximize sports performance.
A musculoskeletal screen is an assessment process aiming to identify potential problems that may predispose an individual to the risk of injury.
Our screening assessments are designed accordingly to the particular sport or individual. A customized detailed report with recommended exercises and advices will be provided after the screening has been conducted.
Dry Needling
Dry needling for sports injuries may help reduce pain and inflammation, improve blood circulation, reduce anxiety and relieve tight muscles.
Dry needling can be used for tendinopathies, muscles strains and chronic pain. Though each treatment is custom tailored to your specific needs and it may be used alongside with other treatment techniques to deliver best results.
Electrophysical Agent Therapy
Our electrotherapy in sport, are the radial Shockwave therapy (ESWT) and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS).
Real Time Ultrasound Assessment and retraining
Real time ultrasound physiotherapy utilizes an ultrasound machine to assist with the assessment and treatment of certain conditions. It provides real time imaging by transmitting sound waves through the body. These sound waves are then reflected by tissues in the body to create images on the screen for us to interpret.
The benefit of real time ultrasound physiotherapy is that it allows you to see how your muscles contract whilst performing certain exercises to give you an instant feedback on how your muscles move and can be an extremely useful tool for retraining correct motor patterns.
