Individual injury prevention program:

Every person’s biomechanics and movement pattern are all slightly different. All sports and work require different skills and muscle activation. Every person requires slight different needs to prevent injury and assist their skill development. Based on the results we develop an individual exercise program targeting the areas of weakness and risk area. The other advantage of these specialized programs is it will assist in developing the skills and performance in the sport or work.

This is done because the screening and program is specific to the activity. This makes the body more efficient at completing the task required by the sport or work which inevitably leads to better and more consistent performance of your skills.

Prehabilitation:

This refers to the physical preparation of the body in order to reduce the chance or severity of injury. It can be applied to people who are anticipating upcoming surgery or are participating in demanding physical activity.In order for this process to be successful the physical requirements of the activity need to be clearly understood, the physiotherapist needs to assess the individual to identify deficiencies in the patient, and then an appropriate action plan devised to remedy these issues. We carefully assess for areas of poor muscle activation and movement pattern, strength deficits, poor muscular endurance and imbalances between muscle groups. Other things that need to be assessed include posture and asymmetry, balance and proprioception, core strength and pelvic stability, flexibility and joint mobility.

Once that has been done an individualized program of interventions can be created and may include aspects such as strengthening and muscle activation exercises, stretches, massage, pilates, core strengthening and balance exercises or more sports specific functional exercises.These principles can also be applied to people preparing for upcoming surgery. This can dramatically reduce post-operative complications and significantly speed up the rehabilitation process following the procedure.