Sports Physiotherapy in Colchester, Essex

Whether you are an elite athlete or just enjoy sport socially, you can benefit from our sports physiotherapy in Colchester, Essex and the surrounding areas. The key to delivering successful sports physiotherapy is assessing your individual needs and current level of activity, ensuring your rehabilitation is staged step by step, helping you return to your sport as soon as possible without risking further injury.

Injuries can happen in many ways, whether through direct trauma or the overloading of soft tissue. These mechanisms can cause tissue to strain, tear, become irritated or reactive.

Our Sports Physiotherapists Can Help With:

Our sports physiotherapists can diagnose these issues and curate a rehabilitation plan that optimises healing and supports your return to sport, using treatment such as:

Manual therapy, progressive strengthening, mobility exercise and biomechanical correction

Acupuncture and sports massage

Shockwave and ultrasound

Rest, ice, compression and strengthening programmes

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Sports Physio in Colchester, Essex

Our therapists not only deliver sports physio in Colchester, Essex, but they also work with athletes across the country, supporting elite and social sportspeople. Our team holds contracts with the University of Essex High Performance Unit and the Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme. They have even travelled with national teams to World Championships and Olympic events.

What to Expect From Your Sports Physiotherapy Appointment:

Initial assessment - our team will take the time to understand how your injury happened and the effect that it is having on your activity.

Physical examination - we will always complete a thorough hands-on assessment to identify the underlying cause of the problem.

Personalised treatment plan - our team will then build a tailored programme to get you back to sport as safely and quickly as possible.

Return to play testing - as you begin to make progress, we will conduct testing such as isometric force testing, dynamic movement testing, video analysis and load monitoring, ensuring we understand when your body is ready to return to full training or competition.

Conditions Sports Physiotherapy can Treat

Neck Pain

Back Pain

Shoulder Elbow Injuries

Ankle and Foot Pain

Knee Pain

FAQ's

What conditions does sports physiotherapy help?

Whatever level of sport you play, if injured sports physio can help.

There are many ways injury can occur in sport e.g. direct trauma or overloading of soft tissue. These mechanisms of injury can cause tissue to be strained, tear or just become irritated and reactive. See our recent blog series. Sports physiotherapy helps diagnose these problems and then develop a rehabilitation to optimise healing and allow continuation of sport.

What do I need to wear during my sports physiotherapy appointment?

Depending where your injury is, loose clothing is usually a good idea so that access to the area can be facilitated.

What treatments do you offer with sports physiotherapy?

Many treatments can be used to treat sports injuries and integrated into a rehabilitation plan, these treatments may include exercise prescription, manual therapy, sports massage, biomechanical correction, acupuncture, strapping, kinesio-taping and other modalities that can help with pain relief or stimulate healing like TENs or low intensity pulsed ultrasound.

Can I do sports after sports physiotherapy?

Depending on the nature of your injury or problem, sometimes sport can be continued however in other cases sometimes rest will be required. All our physiotherapists will advise you after assessing your issue what level of exercise can be performed and the amount of loading required to optimise healing.

What is the process of receiving sports physiotherapy?

Booking an appointment for sport physiotherapy is easy, you can call us on 01206 579631 and ask to see one of our physiotherapists or click one of the book links on this page.

If you have additional questions or need further information, please don't hesitate to get in touch with our team today.

"Craig is one of the most highly qualified and skilled physiotherapists in the sports and rehabilitation sectors that you will find. I highly recommend him and have enormous faith in his ability to assist healing to occur in the body. A Brilliant and caring practitioner who is enormously professional. 10/10."

Muskoka Spa - 07 November 2020

"Saw Carl today for the first time and it was obvious he had taken the time to look at my medical history which helped a lot. Nice guy who spent a lot of time not only ensuring I had the knowledge of exercises to help with the reason for my visit but also some exercises to prepare my body for some forthcoming training."

RP - October 2023

"Both Craig & Carl were fantastic whilst helping me recover from ACL reconstruction. Getting me back playing football quicker than I could have hoped. Would highly recommend to anyone for any sports related injuries or otherwise"

Matt - 17 August 2022