Sport is a fundamental part of a healthy lifestyle, promoting good health, stress relief and fun. Whether you play locally here in Annerley or elsewhere around Brisbane, our physiotherapists take a hands-on, personalised approach to getting you back to the sport you love. Most sports injuries result from a direct blow, causing a bruise or contusion, or an indirect force like a twist, causing sprains, strains and tears, while others develop from over-use, such as tendinitis and stress fractures. Whatever the cause, our highly qualified physiotherapists provide a thorough, one-on-one assessment and a treatment plan tailored to your injury, your sport and your goals.

Common Sports Injuries

We see a wide range of sporting injuries in our Annerley practice, including:

• bruises
• ligament sprains, such as ankle sprains
• joint injuries, such as dislocations and tennis elbow
• over-use injuries, including stress-fractures and tendinitis

Before you can safely return to your sport, it's essential to regain strength, mobility, balance and coordination. Our physiotherapists provide a hands-on, personalised assessment of these areas and show you exactly how to improve them, including practical strategies to help prevent further injury.

Minimising Injury

During your treatment, our physiotherapists will give you detailed, personalised advice on the best ways to minimise further injury and prevent future injuries, including:

• correct warm up and warm down procedures
• correct footwear and sporting equipment
• exercises to encourage good muscle control and reactions
• protective strapping & bracing
• specific conditioning for your particular sport

Sports Injury Rehabilitation

Our hands-on rehabilitation techniques help reduce the time your injury is painful and movement is restricted, so you can safely return to sport faster. Treatment tailored to you by our physiotherapists supports a good quality repair of the injured area and the return of normal muscle and nerve function.

Immediately after an injury, and for 72 hours afterwards, you should:

• REST: Take it easy and only move within your limit of pain
• ICE: As soon as possible, and for 20 minutes every 2 hours, apply ice or a frozen gel pack wrapped in a damp towel to the injured area
• COMPRESSION: Firmly bandage the injury, as this will help control swelling
• ELEVATION: Elevate your injury as much as possible, higher than the level of your heart, to reduce swelling