Active Individuals & Athletes

Holistic Approach to Sports Injuries 

Osteopathy offers comprehensive support for sports injuries, addressing not only the immediate issue but also the underlying biomechanical factors, movement patterns, and compensatory mechanisms that may have contributed to the injury or could predispose you to future problems.

Understanding Your Sport-Specific Needs

Your osteopath will conduct a thorough assessment of your sport-specific movement patterns. We'll analyse how forces travel through your body during your particular athletic activities to identify areas of dysfunction, muscle imbalances, or joint restrictions that may be affecting your performance or increasing your risk of injury.

Treating Acute Sports Injuries

For acute sports injuries, treatment involves hands-on techniques designed to reduce inflammation, restore tissue mobility, and promote healing. This includes soft tissue massage to improve circulation and reduce muscle tension, gentle joint mobilisation to restore normal range of motion, and lymphatic drainage techniques to help manage swelling and accelerate the removal of metabolic waste products from injured tissues.

Addressing Chronic & Overuse Issues

For chronic or overuse injuries, osteopathy focuses on identifying and correcting the underlying biomechanical issues that led to the problem. For example, we'll look at how poor hip stability might be affecting knee function in runners, thoracic spine restrictions limiting shoulder mobility in swimmers, or ankle stiffness contributing to calf strains in football players. Our whole-body approach recognises that sports injuries often result from kinetic chain dysfunction, where problems in one area create compensatory stress elsewhere; we address these interconnected relationships to optimise your overall athletic performance.

Rehabilitation and Performance Enhancement

Your osteopath will work with you to develop sport-specific rehabilitation programmes that progressively restore strength, flexibility, and coordination. We'll also focus on retraining proper movement patterns essential for your sport, ensuring you return to activity with improved function, not just symptom resolution.