Data-Led Injury Screening

Injury Screening is essential for any professional sports team and elite athletes and typically takes place during pre-season or when returning form injury at a sports injury clinic. It helps medical teams and coaching staff identify injuries, assess fitness levels, predict return to play times and evaluate the performance potential of a player.

A comprehensive screening protocol should be tailored to the needs of individual athletes and their sport and should include an evaluation of strength, flexibility, balance, coordination, agility and cardiovascular endurance.

Screening the Amateur Athlete

Amateur athletes can benefit from doing an Injury Screening in a variety of ways. It can help to identify any underlying physical issues that may be causing pain or reduced performance and allow an athlete to address them before they become more serious sports injuries.

Injury screening also helps to determine the athlete’s strength, flexibility and endurance levels which is important for injury prevention. Finally, it can help coaches and trainers to create individual training programs for athletes that are tailored to their specific physical abilities and needs.

What is Prehabilitation?

Prehabilitation is an important part of training as it helps to reduce the risk of injury. Prehabilitation involves activities such as strength training, flexibility exercises, and balance and coordination drills to prepare the body for rigorous physical activity.

The goal of Prehabilitation is to improve muscle recruitment patterns and correct any imbalances in order to prevent potential injury.

Prehabilitation is a proactive approach to reducing the risk of injury and should be incorporated into any sport-training protocol. We are believers in prevention of sports injuries and being proactive in our approach. Attending a sports injury clinic should not only be for those who are injured.

Injury Screening at Carter & George Sports Injury Clinic

The service has been designed by using our knowledge of how professional sports teams such as Saracens and Tottenham FC screen their athletes. The service looks at injury causation and injury prevention.

We have created a 60minute, data-led screening service to look for potential injury causation, injury prevention, return to sport suitability following injury and physical performance and athletic enhancement.

It can be useful for those who have recurrent injuries, those beginning a new training program, those who are in preseason training and those who want to maximize the efficient use of their body.

For example, if you have suffered with knee pain in the past and you are hoping to avoid reinjuring it, an Injury Screening can help identify if there are areas to strengthen; or increase mobility to avoid overloading the joint again.

It is equally useful for those who are awaiting orthopaedic surgery and want to minimize the post-operative recovery time.

As a sports injury clinic treating a variety of athletes, we offer injury screening for upper limb dominant sports and lower limb dominant sports, with both including screening of the spine and ‘core’ region.

As part of the injury screening process, we look at the following;

– Functional movement patterns

– Joint active and passive range of movement

– Muscle length

– Proprioception and control

– Muscle strength

– Muscular endurance

– Plyometric capacity

The Carter & George Physiotherapy and sports injury clinic is proud to be data-led and objective. We use technology to collect accurate metrics that can give us exact data points to look for differences between the dominant and non-dominant side, injured and uninjured side, or simply the left and right.

Based on the data, we will highlight to you any discrepancies detected and an in-depth management plan to allow you to improve those areas. This may include doing exercise at home, engaging in a Strength and Conditioning programme, beginning a physiotherapy treatment plan, sports massage or hopefully, nothing at all.

You will receive a report with all of the findings.

All Injury Screenings are with Physiotherapists registered with the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy or Sports Therapists registered with BASRAT.

We offer this service at all of our purpose built premises. If you are suffering with a sports injury, require advice from a physiotherapy professional or want to know how our services can help you, contact our sports injury clinic today.

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