Sports Therapy

Sports Therapy encompasses numerous different techniques which can be used dependent on the particular issues experienced and to be treated.  Each treatment is tailored to the particular requirement of each Client. 

The aim of Sports Therapy is to restore the area where an injury has occured back to its former functionality and to reduce the likelihood of the injury occurring again.

At First Degree Sports Therapy & Remedial Massage we carry out a thorough assessment of the injury including looking at the current issue together with any prevoius issues to aid us in formulating a tailored Sports Therapy Treatment Plan.  Some of the techniques that we may use in the Sports Therapy Treatment Plan are:

• Sports Massage
• Deep Tissue Massage
• Lighter Therapeutic Massage
• Neuromuscular Techniques (NMT)
• Soft Tissue Release (STR)
• Muscle Energy Techniques (MET)
• Ilio-tibial Band Release 
• Frictions
• Therapist Guided Stretching and Strengthening Exercises

as well as others which may be appropriate for assisting in the treatment of the particular injury.