Pre-Season Testing: Why You Should Consider It
Pre-Season Testing: Why You Should Consider It For athletes, the pre-season is a crucial time for building fitness, honing skills, and preparing for the demands of the upcoming season. While many focus on physical training, one often overlooked aspect is pre-season testing and injury screening. What is Pre-Season Testing? Pre-season testing with a physiotherapist involves […]
How to prevent injuries in football
How to Prevent Football Injuries: What Actually Matters? Football injuries cannot be completely prevented. It is a fast and unpredictable sport involving sprinting, acceleration, deceleration, jumping, landing, kicking, tackling, contact and rapid changes of direction. Sometimes injuries occur despite excellent preparation. But injury risk is not purely bad luck either. There are several things footballers […]
A guide to avoiding injury in Football
These blogs will discuss what sort of injuries are common in Football (soccer) and what we know about how to prevent them. The start of a Football season brings so much anticipation and excitement. Dreaming of scoring the first goal of the year, or reminiscing about last year’s goal-line save is one of the reasons […]
Football Injury Prevention
Football Injury Prevention Exercises: A 3-Level Program Footballers need more than football skills. They need enough strength, balance, jumping ability and movement capacity to tolerate sprinting, kicking, landing, tackling and changing direction repeatedly throughout training and competition. Structured exercise programs can help develop those qualities. They cannot guarantee that a player will never be injured, […]
Hamstring injury and how to prevent them.
The classic sign of a hamstring injury is that vision of an athlete in full flight wincing in pain and clutching at the back of their thigh before they fall in a heap. This is typical for an acute hamstring muscle injury. The most common muscle injury in football is that of the Hamstring. Often […]
How to be successful in your sport!
The best sporting teams have one thing in common. Low injury rates! A successful team is one that has achieved the goals it set out to achieve at the end of their ‘season.’ This might be a usual 6 month season of matches, it might be a four year cycle leading to the Olympic Games. […]
How to get better in your sport
How to get better at your sport. Injury prevention is one of the most valuable investments in yourself you can make. Read on for why… At RHP Physiotherapy, we love sports. We also love helping athletes get better at their sport. In our clinics we support young and developing athletes, mature athletes and elite athletes […]
Groin pain in Football
Groin pain in football Groin pain is an unfortunately common complaint in football players and in many instances this injury is a reason some athletes stop playing all together. Otherwise known as “Osteitis Pubis,” this is one injury you would prefer not to suffer from. This groin pain is now described in a number of […]
Do Niggles Matter?
Do niggles matter? The short answer is yes. Unfortunately niggles do matter! That tight hamstring, the pain in your knee that comes and goes, that annoying back pain that interrupts your day slightly. It might not affect your ability on the football pitch, but these niggles add up. Niggles are not formally injuries, but they […]
Football Injury Prevention
Pre-Season Football Screening: What Should You Actually Test? Pre-season football screening has changed. Traditionally, athletes were often put through a collection of strength, flexibility and movement tests with the idea that the results could identify who was likely to become injured during the season. That is not something we can do reliably. Football injuries are […]