Discover How You Can Beat Injuries with Chester’s Best Sports Physiotherapy Clinic.
You won’t need to visit the GP!You won’t need Painkillers!You won’t be told to rest and see how it goes!
If you get injured whilst doing your favourite activity or playing your favourite sport, it can often feel like a setback. You may feel that you were approaching peak fitness, happy with your form and feeling generally positive. Then, all of a sudden it just stopped; it might have been a sprain or a twinge or a niggle, but you know you have a problem. As a result, you’re probably sore or in pain and feel that you are in for a long period away. You might even try to ignore it and hope that it will go away. But, it won’t.
There is a very simple solution. More and more people from Chester, North Wales and Cheshire are coming to Relive Physiotherapy for their sports rehabilitation and Sports Injury Physiotherapy. Our expert Sports Injury Physiotherapists will have you back out doing your favourite activity as soon as they can, so you can get back to doing the things you love and wave goodbye to the pain.
Do I need to just rest it? NO!
Will it go away by itself if I just IGNORE it? NO!
An injury of any kind has an enormous negative effect on your mental wellbeing and self-confidence as you try to avoid doing simple daily activities.
By doing nothing, you are affecting your quality of life. By doing nothing, your injury is not getting better. In fact, it might be getting worse, especially if you are still training or playing. You are beginning to compensate for your injury and this is now putting extra strain on other parts of your body.
You may not notice it, but your sports injury may even be getting worse and feeling stiffer than when the pain started in the first place. An injury that occurs when playing sport or doing something active is not always straightforward. It could be a condition that is difficult for the activity you do or sport you play.
An injury like this often spills over into your everyday non-sporting life, as the pain may be there when you are trying to do your normal activities. This has an effect on your self-confidence and wellbeing as you may try to avoid doing simple daily activities. Depending on the injury that you have sustained, it may be difficult to walk, drive, get dressed, brush your teeth, or even get out of a chair. If you have children to look after, your injury makes this a real challenge. You become OVER cautious when living your life and eventually your injury gets worse, and the area becomes weaker and even stiffer.
People who get injured doing sport often ask us:
“WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME? Or WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS LEVEL OF PAIN?
To help you navigate information about Sports Injuries, we’ve prepared a short report where you can learn about the different conditions and how to prevent them, such as Torn muscle, sprained ankle and many more and how Sports Injury Physio can help you.
You can find so much information on the internet nowadays and everybody will have an opinion on the best thing that you should do. Sadly, a lot of this information and advice is conflicting, leaving you confused and looking for answers. People who come to our Sports Injury Clinic in Chester often tell us this.
If you are a part of a club or group, you’ve probably heard all sorts of opinions on the best thing to do. ‘It’s nothing, just rest up and it’ll go’, ‘just take some painkillers for the pain now and see how you feel in a couple of days’ are examples of this. Whilst this advice is well-intentioned, it won’t actually help you at all. Days, weeks, months (and sometimes even years) can pass and NOTHING has changed. In fact, your condition may well have got worse. The painkillers took away the pain but didn’t heal the injury. Once they were finished, the pain came back. Rest can help, but it won’t address the cause of the pain.
After taking pain medication and resting, absolutely nothing will have changed. The injury will still be there. And because of this, you won’t be able to participate in the race, match or competition that you were planning.
When you have a Sports Injury, it is so important to do the right thing. And, who can tell you this? A trained expert Sports Physiotherapist from Relive Physiotherapy. Our Specialist Physiotherapists can assess your injury (and give a name to it) and then design a bespoke plan in consultation with you to get you on the road to recovery as soon as possible. The pain you are in has probably intruded into your daily life and is stopping you from doing some of the basic daily activities
‘Getting older’ does not mean bowing to the inevitable and just living with your pain.
Frustrated? Angry? Resigned?
From your internet research, you have probably got about 100 different diagnoses, but even these might be wrong! You can’t make head nor tail of what you are reading and none of it seems to make sense. It might even contradict the previous piece of information you saw.
Depending on your source, you might be in for a short pause, a long lay-off or even a career threatening injury. Hang up your boots/ shoes/ racquet/ club, you’re finished.
What do you believe? If you add the well-meaning friends/ family/ colleagues into the mix, then you are just plain confused. This leads to you doing NOTHING.
It is doubtful that any of these people are medically trained, and if they are, then they will not have had the opportunity to properly examine your injury. Your injury may not be in the place that you think it is (such as one knee injury that actually comes from the hip) and may not have been caused by the actual contact, movement or shot where you felt the injury. It may just be the EFFECT of a poor warm up/ cool down regime over time.
We hear this all the time from our Sports Physiotherapy clients. They have often been suffering in silence. When people come to get Sports Physiotherapy at our Sports Injury Clinic, they often tell us :
I thought the pain would go away by itself, but it DIDN’TI’ve been told that everyone my AGE gets this and I’ll just have to ‘Put Up With It’ I went to see my GP – they gave me painkillers and told me to rest. It felt better for a while, but as soon as I stop taking the medication, my pain was backI found some exercises on the internet, but they didn’t help, only made it worseI went to see a massage therapist. It was nice and pleasant at first, but it didn’t fix my pain long termI’ve been to see all manner of people and tried what they recommended but nothing they said or did seemed to helpIf this is you, then give us a call at the best Sports Physiotherapy Clinic in Chester, and one of our friendly and helpful Relive Physiotherapists can chat to you (for FREE) about what we can do to help you. Having tried some or all of the above is GREAT and it means that you are CLOSER to finding what works for you.
All you need to do is click on the ‘Request A Callback’ button or give us a ring to have a FREE chat with one of our Sports Injury Physiotherapists. Doing this is the first step in getting rid of your pain and getting you back to doing your sport. We’ll give you the right information to help you make an informed choice and get back to doing those activities you LOVE, SLEEPING better and back off the medication that is managing your pain, but not helping your condition.
Make a decision. TODAY. It’s the first step to getting on the road to recovery. Making that very important decision will improve your physical and mental wellbeing and you will feel a weight has been taken off your shoulders. Say goodbye to your pain, you’re back in control.
Resting is good for an injury, but there is such a thing as too much rest. Too much rest will cause your injury to get stiffer, sorer and it may even increase the pain. Doing some simple targeted exercises will help your injury if done correctly. These should be prescribed by a professional and where better to find one of those than at Relive Physiotherapy?
Exercises are so important. Your friendly Physiotherapist will be able to give you the right ones for you to do in the right order and at the right time. They will demonstrate how to do them, and then make sure that you are doing them properly with the proper technique to improve your recovery.
If you get your exercises from the internet, then you are likely to be disappointed. Around 90% of people who find their exercises on the internet do the wrong exercises or don’t do them properly and this actually does more harm than good. Not all sports injuries are the same, so the exercises for your specific injury should be given to you by a qualified professional.
If you follow the steps, then you will start to feel better. However, nothing can beat the effects of ‘hands-on’ Physiotherapy that you get from Relive Physiotherapy as standard for your Sports Injury. There has been a trend recently to consult remotely, or to prescribe exercises alone, but we feel that this does not give you the best chance of a full recovery. We believe that you DESERVE the best and this is often the quickest route to recovery. It gives lasting results which is vital for any Sports injury. If your pain is preventing you from doing everyday tasks, work or do the things you love, then please call Relive Physiotherapy TODAY and your recovery can begin.
Just a small word about expectations. A professional sportsperson would probably be treated by Physiotherapy every day to hasten their recovery. Every injury requires a certain number of sessions, and you should follow the recommendations of your Physiotherapist to ensure you receive the full benefit.
Just arrange a FREE TASTER session with Relive Physiotherapy in Chester and we can discuss how we can help you.
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There are so many things that we can do for you at Relive Physiotherapy, but here are a few:
Quickly ease the symptoms of your pain within two or three visit to our Physiotherapy Clinic in Chester. Help you enjoy a good night’s sleep and have more energy to attack your day.Answer any questions that you have. You will understand how to look after your injury and take back control from the pain.Help you get back to doing the things you love, through our expert Sports Injury treatment.Help you come off the medication that is not helping your condition.Keep you out of the GP’s surgery or make return visits for painkillers.Get back to enjoying quality time with your family and friends that pain has stolen from you.Want to know how our specialised team at the Relive Physiotherapy Clinic in Chester can help you live without pain?
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