PHYSIOTHERAPY TREATMENT FOR Sports Injuries

Sports injuries can occur during training, competition, or recreational activity. Without proper treatment, these injuries can lead to ongoing pain, reduced mobility, and a higher risk of future injury. Often more pertinent to the athlete involved, it can lead to decreased performance, reduced training time, and missed athletic opportunities.

At Flaman Physiotherapy, we provide specialized sports injury rehabilitation designed to help athletes recover safely and return to their sport with confidence. Our therapists have decades of experience with athletes from every skill level and age category, helping them work through their injuries and return to their pre-injury performance levels.

Our physiotherapy programs focus on pain reduction, strength rebuilding, and movement optimization to support long-term athletic performance.

Common Sports Injuries We Treat

Our team has experience with a multitude of sports, and a multitude of injuries. We have helped athletes recover from shoulder injuries including separations, dislocations, and rotator cuff tears; hip pointers, bursitis, and iliotibial (IT) band injuries; achilles tendonitis, achilles ruptures, and ankle sprains of every severity; Knee sprains, MCL tears, ACL tears, and patellar injuries.

Traumatic injuries are not the only issues related to sports. We deal with overtraining injuries to all body parts and have extensive experience with athletes who have extremely high volumes of training, such as gymnastics, dance, and swimming.

We have experience with actual on-field injury assessment and management. Our team of therapists has long history of competitive athletics and personal knowledge of injury, rehabilitation, and return to sport to draw on when helping you recover.

Early physiotherapy treatment helps reduce recovery time and supports safe return to activity.

Sports Injuries by Activity

Different sports place stress on different parts of the body. Understanding the nature of the sport and the demands the specific training and competition puts on the athletes body is crucial in developing appropriate rehabilitation plans.

Football and hockey will tend towards more one time traumatic injuries, while dance, distance running and gymnastics tend towards injuries related to high repetition and high volume training. 

Understanding the cause of the injury and the demands on the injured area during their return to sport is essential in the treatment of athletic injuries.

Flaman Physiotherapy helps athletes recover safely taking both the injury and these demands into account.

How Physiotherapy Helps Sports Injuries

Manual Therapy

Our physiotherapists provide skilled hands-on biomechanical treatment, using their knowledge of anatomy to improve joint mobility and muscle extensibility. Localizing the individual joints at fault, they will manually improve the joint mobility with focused and directed pressure to the affected area.

Therapeutic Modalities

Our therapists utilize a wide variety of advanced modalities to enhance the effectiveness of their biomechanical techniques. Ultrasound and laser therapy are used for inflammation and swelling when present. TENS/EMS to desensitize an area and loosen tight muscles around the injured region. Acupuncture and Gunn IMS dry needling for pain relief and to restore normal motion to the affected area. Shockwave therapy to improve joint mobility and to reduce areas of calcified tendinosis where appropriate.

Strength and Conditioning Rehabilitation

Adapting exercises for the injured area into focused strength programs that minimize deviation from the training the athlete needs to return to their sport. At Flaman Physiotherapy, we will integrate your rehabilitation program into your training program, helping to develop ways to continue to push yourself to your goal of return to sport in a safe manner.

Sport-Specific Rehabilitation

At Flaman physiotherapy, our programs are always specific to the individual. When you arrive with an athletic injury, we discuss your goals and come up with realistic plans to help you recover in a timely fashion. We consider your injury, your sport, and that sports demands on your body so we can plan a safe and effective return to competition with you.

Injury Prevention Training

Knowing what type of injury you suffered, we will design programs and come up with plans to minimize the chance of re-injury in the future. Training, taping, bracing, and changing protective equipment will all be considered as we plan for the long term.

Benefits of Sports Injury Physiotherapy

Physiotherapy can help athletes reduce pain and inflammation, restore joint mobility, rebuild strength and stability, improve movement efficiency, reduce the risk of reinjury, and safely return to sport.

Why Choose Flaman Physiotherapy

Athletes and active individuals across central Saskatchewan choose Flaman Physiotherapy because of our individualized and evidence-based approach to rehabilitation.

Our physiotherapists have a history of working with athletes of all levels, from timbits hockey to the NCAA to the NFL, NHL, and Olympics.

Our physiotherapists focus on identifying the root cause of injury, creating personalized rehabilitation programs, improving strength and movement mechanics, and supporting safe return to sport.

Conditions & Injuries We Also Treat