by Sian Phillips | Wednesday 22nd of July 2020 | Blog, Sports Rehab Blogs
Sports therapy is specifically concerned with the treatment of pain, prevention of injury, and rehabilitation of a patient back to optimum levels of functional, occupational and sports specific fitness, regardless of age and ability. Sports therapy utilizes a variety...
by Sian Phillips | Wednesday 22nd of July 2020 | Sports Rehab Blogs, Blog
The arm is attached to the rest of the body by one, relatively small joint, called the acromioclavicular (AC) joint. This joint comprises of the top and front section of your shoulder blade, which is called the acromion, and the collarbone (the clavicle). The collar...
by Sian Phillips | Wednesday 22nd of July 2020 | Blog, Sports Rehab Blogs
Massage has been used for thousands of years in the treatment of illness and injury by health care practitioners, including musculoskeletal injuries, cancer, stress, relaxation and pregnancy. The history of sports massage started back in 1924, at the Olympic Games in...
by Sian Phillips | Wednesday 22nd of July 2020 | Blog, Sports Rehab Blogs
Shoulder pain is the third most common musculoskeletal complaint after back and neck pain. Shoulder pain can be caused by a variety of conditions including frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis), shoulder impingement syndrome (damage to the tendons within the shoulder...
by Katie Lay | Saturday 11th of July 2020 | Sports Rehab Blogs
After the success of our Autumn sports massage offer, when we saw lots of new faces visiting the Faultless Fitness Sports Therapy wing for treatment, we discovered that there was a degree of confusion around the differences between sports massage therapy and sports...
by Katie Lay | Saturday 11th of July 2020 | Sports Rehab Blogs
What is it? Proprioception is the sense through which we perceive the position, movement and action of the parts of our body, including our sense of balance. It incorporates our perception of joint position, movement, muscle contraction and effort. Proprioception...
