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Need Help Recovering from a Sports Injury?

Has an injury or condition compromised your speed and agility?

Sports Therapy is the Right Choice

Sports Therapy is a specialized area of physical therapy that deals with both acute, chronic, and repetitive injuries in professional, collegiate, high school and recreational athletes. Practice includes the thorough evaluation, treatment, transition back to sport, prevention, and performance enhancement programs.

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Post-Surgical Rehabilitation

Often, sports therapists work with post-surgical athletes to help them recover their strength, range of motion, and activities of daily living. To accomplish this sports therapy specialists use techniques such as:

Manual Therapy
Specialized hands-on techniques to facilitate movement, and functional control
Modalities
Heat, ice, taping techniques, and electrical stimulation are all modalities that can be used to help reduce pain and inflammation, improve circulation, and promote healing.
Dynamic Strength & Endurance Training
Most sports require endurance, balance, and short burst of intense strength output. In the later stages of rehabilitation of athletes, sports therapists transition players to advanced conditioning programs that closely replicate their experience on the court or playing field.
Therapeutic Exercise
From active range of motion (simply working against gravity), to advanced resistance protocols, sports therapists help an athlete recover the necessary strength to compete in their given sport.
Functional Retraining
All sports require specialized balance, movement patterns, and dynamic flexibility and stability. Sports therapy includes retraining the athlete in their given area of interest or excellence. Examples include helping pitchers recover their throwing mechanics. Assisting football players in cutting, catching, throwing, and backpedaling. Helping basketball players recover the jumping, shuffling, and shooting mechanics.
Prevention
Sports therapists often provide interventions and recommendations to assist athletes with the prevention. This may include pre-participation evaluations, equipment advice, conditioning programs (e.g. ACL injury prevention) and cardiorespiratory conditioning programs that are constructed to assist athletes in a safe transition back to sport.
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Sports Performance Programs

After a thorough evaluation of an athlete’s strength, neuromuscular coordination, flexibility, and cardiorespiratory fitness, the Silver Spring and Riverdale Park sports therapist will develop a sports performance training plan to help the athlete achieve their performance goals. Programs are tailored to specific sporting demands and provided to the athlete as a training regime (plan of action); or the sports therapist may coach and guide the athlete through a performance program on a several times/week basis again, depending on the athletes goals and needs.

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If you are interested in our sports therapy program, contact Physical Therapy & Hand Rehabilitation today After an initial evaluation, one of our physical therapists will design a unique plan for you, encompassing speed, agility, footwork, strength, and injury prevention. Request an appointment today and help you achieve your full athletic potential!

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  • Request an appointment
  • Receive A Custom Treatment Plan
  • Work Hard and Progress In Your Recovery
  • Recover & Enjoy Life Pain-Free!
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