Sports Injury

Whether you're a professional athlete or an amateur, pushing your limits and improving your performance are key motivations in sports. Training, repetition, and mental preparation are essential elements. Techniques exist that can help enhance your performance, prevent injuries, and avoid muscle contractions. Sports osteopathy is a manual therapy that considers your environment, contraints, and goals.

Preventive Osteopathic Treatment :

It's beneficial for an athlete to consult an osteopathic practitioner to prepare for an event. Through their expertise, osteopathic practitioners improve joint flexibility, muscle potential, and power. They also play a role in enhancing respiratory capacity.

Osteopathic treatment can help improve: Concentration before the event; Sports performance; Recovery after exertion, particularly by preventing muscle contractions.

Regular osteopathic follow-ups can also help athletes extend their practice longevity and reduce the need for medication. Through prevention, athletes experience fewer injuries.

Curative Osteopathic Therapy

Osteopaths can treat various pains, muscle conditions, and certain imbalances. They can initiate rehabilitation work to correct postural issues, muscle deficits, or loosen areas of stiffness.

Additionally, they can collaborate with sports physicians. With their expertise, osteopaths can relieve:

Traumas and various joint pains;

Heel pain (talalgias);

Groin pain (pubalgias);

Inflammatory joint pain (periarthritis);

Elbow pain (epicondylitis);

Sciatica, cruralgia, neck pain (cervicalgia), back pain (dorsalgia, lumbago);

Breathlessness during exertion and side stitches;

Headaches, balance disorders, and dizziness;

Poor recovery between events;

Stress, lack of concentration, and sleep disorders;

Headaches and balance issues, etc..

What Types of Athletes Do Osteopathic Practitioners Treat? As we have seen, osteopathy is a powerful tool for athletes, both preventively and curatively. This practice is suitable for all types of athletes and adapts to the needs and requirements of each patient.

High-level athletes require quality physical preparation. In high-impact sports such as rugby, basketball, or volleyball, athletes need care after repeated impacts.

Athletes preparing for competitions. For example, before running a marathon, it is recommended to see an osteopath for follow-up.

Amateur athletes can also consult an osteopath either preventively, to avoid muscle contractions or injuries, or curatively. The practitioner can also provide advice to gradually increase the patient’s performance.

Child athletes. Regular check-ups are highly recommended to monitor the child's development and help them practice their sport sustainably. Osteopaths can also correct the consequences of falls and various traumas.

Kick Pain to the Curb: Score a Win for Your Body with Osteopathic Sports Rehab!