Acute Injury Management
March 16, 2007 by John Northey · 1 Comment
Nobody wants to get injured! True. And as physiotherapists we actually don’t like seeing people get injured either. But if you do get hurt, we are there to look after things the best we can so that you, or your players, can get back on the training track and then the park as soon as possible. So, if you do get injured what should you do and who should you see? Is it really possible that there is a right and wrong way to look after your injuries? And, what can go wrong if you don’t look after an injury correctly?Let’s look first at what you should do in the first few days after an injury occurs.
Soft Tissue Injury
February 16, 2007 by John Northey · Leave a Comment
Searching for solutions to the footballers arch enemy. The dreaded “hammy”.
When I was asked to provide a football based article for this website, it didn’t take long to come up with a topic that most people in the football would have come across numerous times – hamstring strains. These injuries seem to attack an alarming number of our players, and the horror stories and magic cures find their way into the media through the course of most seasons.
