What Is Sports Therapy?

Sports Therapy is an aspect of health care that is specifically concerned with the prevention of sports injury and rehabilitation of the patient back to optimum levels of functional, occupational and sports specific fitness regardless of age and ability.

It utilises the principles of sport and exercise sciences incorporating physiological and pathological processes to prepare the participant for training, competition and where applicable, work.

A Sports Therapist is a practitioner who has the knowledge and the ability to:

• Provide first aid and administer sports injury treatment in a recreational, training and competitive environment.
• Assess and diagnose sports injuries and (where appropriate) refer on for a specialist advice and intervention.
• Provide sports and remedial massage pre and post activity
• Implement appropriate rehabilitation programmes
• Utilise sports and exercise principles to optimise preparation and injury prevention programmes
• Apply electrotherapy accordingly – ultrasound, interferential, TENS.

Quoted from: the Society of Sports Therapists –www.society –of –sports –therapists.org