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Sports Physiotherapy & Sports Injury Clinic

Sports Physiotherapy for pain relief, Injury treatment & getting you back to tip-top

Sports physiotherapy in SGPainRelief.com clinics play a vital role in

1. treating injuries, relieving both acute and chronic pain and
2. equally or more importantly, to prevent future sports injuries and pain

Treatment helps athletes and active individuals to quickly get back on their feet to workout, play and perform at peak, and regular management / maintenance prevents recurring pain or injuries.

The reason why I shared earlier on multi-disciplinary team and approach is because sports injuries and pains does better with a multi-disciplinary approach to properly assess and holistically treat the sports conditions that affects athletes / active individuals of different activities and sports.

Our physio and hand therapy team will help you get back to playing without pain, maintain your active movement lifestyle by treating the sports injuries and pains first, then work on any areas of weaknesses in your body (such as muscle imbalance, insufficient high balance etc) that gets in your way of achieving and maintaining your fitness goals.

Our tried-and-tested physiotherapy, hand therapy, TCM and sports massage combination has made us a trusted physio and hand therapy clinic for many active individuals as well as athletes in Singapore.

Sports Injury Physical Therapy and activity or Sports-specific Strength Conditioning

Our experienced physios and hand therapists work closely with active individuals and athletes to design activity- and sports-specific physio, strength and conditioning programs,

1. after injuries
2. if you have recurring or chronic pain
3. pre-surgery strengthening
4. post-surgery recovery

They are personalized to you, your goals, your fitness level before, abilities and more. Treating the pain is just the tip of the iceberg (the beginning), from there we will treat the injury, then work on the deficits / weaknesses and then sports-specific training, for both performance and prevention of future (re)injuries.

Pain Relief Physiotherapy

Most active individuals and especially athletes will definitely get injured and injuries along their sporting career. Most of these injuries tend to be minor, and some more severe ones may be more stubborn, becoming chronic. 

Our team helps to treat and manage these kind of chronic sports injury pain, using a combination of manual therapy, dry needling, ultrasound therapy, shockwave therapy, deep tissue release therapy and others, depending on what the physio or hand therapist prescribe. 

You may even need a customized splint or insole.

There's other healing / treatment modalities, and we'd select the ones that will best serve your injury and pain recovery needs, of course.

Injury & Pain Prevention

Like I shared earlier, it's one thing to treat the injury and provide pain relief / management, but I want to seriously highlight the need to focus a chunk of our attention on prevention and preventative, proactive physiotherapy.

Our team of experienced physiotherapists, hand therapists, massage therapists and TCM acupuncturist will work with you, the active individual / athlete, your coach and your sports medicine or orthopedic doctor to ensure that we're all aligned to treat your injury, pains and preventing future injuries.

If you need an orthopedic doctor recommendation in Singapore, go here.

Physio & Hand Therapy for Musculoskeletal Dysfunctions

Sometimes you may need or opt for injections or surgery, and that's okay too when necessary - we will standby you and support you by 

• preparing you and your injury part (pre-surgery)
• recovery of strength, range of motion, power, stamina and back to sports AFTER the surgery or injection

Every injury is considered unique and we will take the time to deep-dive to assess, diagnose before formulating a customized treatment program that we will do with you.

Prehabilitation = prep + training in advance

There's 2 types of prehabilitation:

1) Pre-SURGERY PREHABilitation

As I shared earlier, sometimes injections or surgeries are necessary, and if you're ever in that position, you will benefit a lot from a series of pre-surgery physiotherapy to build upon your

• power / strength
• stamina
• range of motion
• balance
• etc

Research shows that pre-surgery physiotherapy or hand therapy can help patient to shorten their hospitalization stay, get more mobile faster and go back to work faster.

It usually includes general exercises for general and overall strength, stamina, and balance; as well as some pain relief techniques.

2) Pre-SPORTS/ Pre-sporting event prehabilitation

This is moreso if you're thinking of 

• picking up a new activity for hobby or sports, and either was very sedentary before, or had a series of injuries and pains and / or
• planning to sign up for a special sporting event such as marathons, triathlons, matches etc

Pre-sports prehabilitation has a mix of general strengthening, stamina building, balance and flexibility training, then progressing in stages to activity- or sports-specific training. 

That's one example of a patient who goes from sedentary to wanting to run a marathon.

Some patients may prefer badminton, or boxing, or tennis, or rock climbing, even sailing too, if that rocks your boat. And we're here to serve and keep you playing whatever sports you enjoy.

Post-surgery physiotherapy or hand therapy

Physiotherapy or hand therapy after a surgery is absolutely necessary because we help you to regain, rebuild and grow your

1. range of motion of your joints, muscles
2. strength & power
3. stamina & tolerance
4. balance
5. overall recovery

We work closely with orthopedic doctors and healthcare professionals to create the best recovery programs for your post-surgery recovery. 

Some of the treatments may include:

1. manual therapy
2. pain relief
3. clinical pilates
4. dry needling
5. acupuncture
6. balance training
7. strength training
8. ultrasound therapy
9. shockwave therapy
10. soft tissue management

and more.

Joint Replacement hand therapy or Physiotherapy

Medically termed as arthroplasty, joint replacement surgeries are fairly common surgeries actually.

In a nutshell, this surgery replaces a damaged joint with an artificial joint, and is done by joint replacement specialist orthopedic surgeons.

The most common joints that are replaced:

1. hip joint
2. knee joint
3. shoulder joint

These joints are damaged usually by:

• osteoarthritis (the most common wear-and-tear joint problem)
• fractures
• tumours
• avascular necrosis or osteonecrosis
• post-trauma/infection arthritis
• rheumatoid arthritis
• degenerative joint disease

Generally patients and people prefer to avoid arthroplasty surgery (not that it's specific to arthroplasty, but more like avoidance to surgery if they can help it), but with planned pre-surgery physiotherapy and post surgery physiotherapy, most of the surgery-related issues such as pain or stiffness can be minimized.

Physiotherapy & hand therapy Sports Clinic singapore

Here in SGPainRelief.com, we take a holistic, multi-disciplinary, experience and expertise approach to treating sports injuries and pain.

We simply subscribe to do what works, including

• manual therapy, 
• clinical pilates, 
• ultrasound therapy, 
• shockwave therapy, 
• dry needling, 
• soft tissue management 
• acupuncture and 
• conditioning

Our goals for you:

1. pain relief and inflammation management after an injury
2. restore range of motion
3. build upon strength, stamina and balance (and rebalancing imbalance)
4. work and sports-specific training
5. high performance maintenance and prevention of future injuries