Injury Recovery Process
Sports injury rehab therapy helps athletes and active individuals to successfully treat their pain. The goal is to restore overall function. At True Balance Massage, we aim to help clients early on with their injuries before they get worse and worse. Along with massage, we incorporate strengthening and flexibility exercises into treatment plans to help make sure that the injury site restores it completely. Our Denver sports massage therapist provides individual care that focuses on each client and their injuries, not a cookie cutter approach to all clients.
Sports injury rehabilitation like this treats many conditions including sports injuries, sprains, strains, muscle, ligament and tendon repair, tendonitis and other dysfunction. This injury recovery process will benefit those post-surgery, with acute or chronic injuries and those suffering from exercise-induced stiffness, pain and soreness. We use a multi-disciplinary approach to evaluation and treatment injuries while also helping to prevent future ones too.
The first step toward injury recovery is getting suggestions of recovery options from our sports massage therapist. The initial goal of course is to reduce pain and promote healing. However, once the initial swelling and pain is reduced, a reconditioning treatment is conducted. The overall goal is to re-establish strength. At True Balance Massage, we are committing to providing professional care for athletes of all ages.
The first step toward injury recovery is getting suggestions of recovery options from our sports massage therapist. The initial goal of course is to reduce pain and promote healing. However, once the initial swelling and pain is reduced, a reconditioning treatment is conducted. The overall goal is to re-establish strength. At True Balance Massage, we are committing to providing professional care for athletes of all ages.
What is an Orthopedic Assessment?
During the injury recovery process, this orthopedic assessment allows our sports massage therapist to treat each patient for the right thing. It’s important to orthopedic manual therapy as it allows us to determine the underlying cause of someone’s injury. This is important in finding the most effective treatment approach for each client. The tools uses with orthopedic assessment include: active and passive range of motion as well as manual resistance. A series of orthopedic assessment tests are also used for specific conditions, so the complete testing pattern will vary client to client.
Written Restorative Exercise Plan
A written restorative exercise plan includes goals and movement assessment findings. By creating this document, the client and our sports massage therapist can work together to determine the best treatment options for their particular findings and goals for the procedures. Some common goals are to restore full range of motion and function, regain gait, muscle strength, endurance and overall skills.
After-Care Coaching
While our goal is to help our clients to recover from sports injuries, we also take great pride on building a healthy relationship with them. This means that we follow up to ensure that their goals are being met, there have been no changes in how they feel and no subsequent injuries have occurred. This after-care coaching is a valuable tool in ensuring that not only our injury recovery process works effectively, but that it benefits every client for their overall well-being.
What is Movement Assessment?
During this orthopedic assessment testing, a movement assessment is conducted. The stress and assess approach adds stress to the client’s body. If the structure is healthy, no pain will be felt. However, if it isn’t, the client will fee pain and other symptoms. This makes the procedure position, meaning that the overall structure isn’t healthy. The best assessment tests are ones that are the most specific in finding pain.
Some of the most popular orthopedic assessment tests include and are not limited to: space-occupying lesion tests (cough test, straight leg raise, slump test), tests for injured tissues (such as active and passive SLR and other specific tests). SLR, cough and slump tests are all used to assess the lumbar spine and buttocks. This looks for bulging or herniated discs and bone spurs. The active and passive SLR tests are looking for sprains and strains throughout the body.
Treatment
Ultimately, rehabilitating any type of injury can be tiresome. However, at True Balance Massage, our goal is to help our clients to find therapeutic procedures that benefit them the most. Massage helps to improve blood flow, which helps muscles to recover faster. This also allows them to become more flexible once more too. With sports injury massage, our Denver massage therapist can utilize massage types such as deep tissue massage and Swedish massage to flush lactic acid and waste from the muscles, allows them to recover quicker.