Sports Injury Therapy

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Sports Injury Therapy is used specifically for the treatment of injuries to muscles, joints, ligaments or tendons. Sports Injury Therapy aims to relieve pain from the area, rehabilitate the injury and to restore optimal function to that specific area so that the body can function at its optimum level.

Sports Injury Therapists are instrumental in the treatment and rehabilitation of injuries. Their goal is to increase and return mobility to affected areas, help prevent injuries from repeating, develop treatment plans and use specific machines to help promote healing back into affected areas of the body.

Professionals can be privately contracted, are often part of sporting or club teams, operate out of sports medicine clinics or sometimes are contracted to gyms and other health centers.

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British Holistic Medical Association - BHMA

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