Sports Injury and Special Condition Rehabilitation

This is training at its most sensitive. The whole process of rehabilitation is complex and highly personal, but the principles are exactly the same as most other coaching situations.For the elite sportsperson recovery from injury can be the most frustrating and debilitating time in their career. Psychologically the elite athlete is geared to optimum conditioning and performance excellence. Rehabilitation is more often about small slow incremental change.

For the Special Forces soldier the wearing of spectacles is a disability. For the paralysed person the achievement of the pinch grip is life-changing.

On a first visit to a Premier League football club we noticed a star player alone in the gym, moodily turning over the static bike in desultory fashion. No motivation, no team spirit, no group ethos there! Just a guy, highly resentful, but dutifully going through the motions of his remedial programme.

Rehabilitation is more than just prescriptive exercise. It engages the mind in a way unlike that of any other situation. It makes demands on motivation and requires a re-setting of goals and standards of progress measurement that belie most sporting achievement. Sometimes the ability to stand un-aided is a major breakthrough. In this environment the psychological is paramount.

Whether working with an elite athlete and trying to get them back to prior injury performance levels or better, or with the person who has had a spinal cord injury, a stroke or has MS and is trying to manage their condition and regain function, there is no doubting the importance of correct and appropriate rehabilitation.

We, at the Fitness Consultancy, have a special relationship with this branch of fitness training. As founders of the pioneering National Rehabilitation Centre for the Paralysed, we have had a unique case load. Indeed my Masters’ degree centred on the application of sports training as a means of regaining function and mental well-being among people with spinal cord injury.

We continue to work with people with special conditions. Whether you are a person with paraplegia aiming for functional progression, or an elite athlete returning from injury, we will design a progressive programme that accommodates your day to day needs, recognises your personal situation, aims and ambitions, as well as your longer term goals.

And as always we take a holistic approach, so not only exercise, strength and conditiong are taken into account, but we also consider lifestyle, nutrition, rest & recovery. We will always consider the best alternatives for our clients and that could mean bringing in a podiatrist, an osteopath, sports psychologist, masseur or specialist physiotherapist. We are quite literally - a safe pair of hands.