Exeter Osteopaths

Our Sports Clinic

Most injuries do not happen with a single traumatic event. They are overuse injuries where people are not able to balance what relatively is a sedentary background to most days with intense bursts of activity 3 evenings a week in the gym or on a sports ground at the weekend. The fact that most sports injuries are of lower limb probably reflects that most sports involve running. Running injuries are particularly common.

At Exeter osteopaths we are enable you to achieve your individual optimum level of function, regardless of age and sporting activity.

At Exeter Osteopaths not only we treat you, we give you plenty of advice of various exercises to help improve all round function of the body, movement and decreased pain. We also clearly explain to you why you get injured and how you can prevent the symptoms from returning in the future. We have access to X-Rays, MRI’s and also able to refer to consultants if necessary.

At Exeter Osteopaths we have and experience team of specialists on treating injuries from rugby, football, running, cycling, rowing and dancing to name a few, at elite level as well as amateur local level.

We recommend if you do exercise on a regular basis, especially intensive bursts of exercise to come in regularly for a maintenance treatment/check up. This will help you increase your performance as well as help preventing future injuries. You get your car service regularly so that you can go from A to B without breaking down! Why not get yourself serviced regularly. Try it, you will feel better for it.


Sports Injuries

Running Injuries:

• Lower back/buttock pain
• Thigh/ hamstring strains/tears
• Calf strains/tears
• Achilles tendonitis
• Runners knee/ tendonitis
• Shin splints
• Stress fractures
• Plantar fascitis

Throwing Injuries

• Neck and shoulder pain
• Frozen shoulder
• Tennis elbow
• Side strains
• Wrist injuries
• Whiplash

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