Sports injury treatments

Sally & her associates have much experience with sports injuries of varying types. During her time in Hinchley Wood, Esher, Sally & her associates have provided podiatry services to Fulham, Chelsea and QPR Football clubs, and The All England Tennis Club during the Wimbledon Championships. Sally regularly helps marathon runners in her clinic and has volunteered her time at the London Marathon race finish tents. Sally treats people of all sporting abilities at her clinic in Surrey. She regularly treats children for differing sporting injuries, and also treats those who are representing their county in sports such as hockey, netball and rugby. 

Injury or tissue damage can affect anyone regardless of age, level of competition or the particular sport involved. The one factor that will always be present is force. High forces are what damage human tissues. Sports injuries usually occur in one of 2 ways. Either an acute injury preceded by an episode of trauma (e.g. ankle ligament damage resulting from a late challenge on the football pitch), or a more chronic injury of insidious onset with no apparent cause (e.g. a marathon runner gradually developing shin pain during training). The force responsible for damage in an acute injury is often obvious; for example someone else’s football boot colliding into the ankle, the knee twisting awkwardly in a rugby tackle or tripping over a pavement on an morning run. In the more chronic types of injury sports people can often be quite unsettled by the slow insidious onset of symptoms with no obvious reason. In these instances, it is often the forces present from performing high impact activity that are to blame. These cause micro-damage to the tissues at a level which is undetected. Pain often arises when the repetitive dosage of training/activity exceeds the healing process leading to a failure or breakdown of the tissues involved. This biomechanical overload leads to the classic over-use type injuries often seen in runners.

• Patellofemoral Syndrome 
• Hamstring strain
• Shin splints or medial Tibial Stress Syndrome (MTSS)
• Groin strain
• Achilles tendonitis
• Iliotibial Band (ITB) Syndrome
• Stress fractures
• Ankle sprains.
• Peroneal tendonitis
• Posterior Tibial tendonitis
• Patellar Tendinopathy (Jumper’s Knee)

Podiatrists deal with the conditions of the feet and lower limbs arising out of the faulty biomechanics of the feet and lower limbs. Since the feet carry the weight of the entire body and are in effect the punching bag for the forces of external resistance that come from the ground as we stand, walk or run. During the sporting process, whether it be a game of football, tennis, or 5k run, the muscles, bones, nerves, ligaments and cartilages undergo a tremendous amount of stress and fatigue. This stress can affect the biomechanics of the feet and lower limbs whereby they are no longer able to support the body weight thus giving rise to pain and discomfort. The extent of a sports injury can be magnified many times over for people who have flatter feet or feet that are rolled in too far. Those that have high arches are also prone to problems on account of poor shock absorption. By visiting a Podiatrist, an individual treatment plan can be developed to assist to help correct unhelpful movement patterns. This package might include specific exercises, orthotic therapy and or footwear change.