High-performance sports environments continue to drive injury prevention research, with non-professional athletes benefiting from the information overflow. However, is the professional environment data applicable in non-professional cohorts? Jo Brown provides golden nuggets to bring a performance approach to athletic rehabilitation and optimal performance.
Rugby Union - Twickenham Stadium, London, Britain - England’s Will Stuart receives medical attention after sustaining an injury Action Images via Reuters/Andrew Boyers
Have sports medicine professionals looked at rehabilitation the wrong way for many years? Physiotherapists have always been hailed as fixers. Someone gets injured, and the physiotherapist swoops them up and back to health. This thinking is the backbone of the passive and reactive treatment paradigm that has formed the basis of traditionally practiced physiotherapy.
The traditional physiotherapy model has always been a reaction to an injury or pain. Someone has pain, a niggle, or injury and then seeks physiotherapy to alleviate pain and return to performance. Sometimes, the goal is merely to return to baseline rather than improve their capacity. This disease-driven global approach to health care results in spiraling costs and a fragmented health system that is both reactive and episodic. In recent decades mounting evidence has steered us away from passive treatments such as electrotherapy, traditionally associated with physiotherapy, coinciding with a growing body of evidence to support exercise modalities(1,2).
This disease-driven global approach to health care results in spiraling costs and a fragmented health system that is both reactive and episodic. In recent decades mounting evidence has steered us away from passive treatments such as electrotherapy, traditionally associated with physiotherapy, coinciding with a growing body of evidence to support exercise modalities(1,2).
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