Sport injuries are very common, especially in a place like Bali where both outdoor and indoor sports are available everywhere.
If you have an injury caused by sport during your stay in Bali, you are in the right place. Schedule a physiotherapy session and get yourself back on your feet as fast as possible. Don't let the injury stop your sports vacation or workout goals.
The most common injuries in sports
Whether you are doing a contact sport, a racket sport or a team sport, you are likely to get an injury at some point. All sports have a part of risk and repetitive movements, lack of conditioning and accidents can lead to you being stuck with one of these common but annoying injuries:
Muscle soreness
Joints stiffness or pain (eg. Wrist, knee, ankle or shoulder)
Pinched nerve / sprain (eg. Back pain, neck pain)
Hematomas
Bone fractures
While some of these injuries can easily be fixed by a few physiotherapy sessions, other will need more attention and potentially dedicated functional programs to go back to your peak level.
Sport specific injuries that might require physiotherapy
Some injuries we treat with physiotherapy are typical to some sports. Here are some of the ones we regularly observe.
Contact sports
Although most contact sports are a lot safer than they look, you still get injured from time to time when you regularly practice a contact sport like Kickboxing, Muay Thai, MMA or rugby. Being in a Boxing gym ourselves, we are very familiar with injuries sustained in these sorts of sports.
Whether you are having wrist pain from Boxing, sore legs from Muay Thai or shoulder issues after a rough BJJ or grappling session, with help from a few physiotherapy sessions you can recover more efficiently.
Swimming and surfing
In a place like Bali where surfing is all around the island, it is easy to overdo it and end up with shoulder injuries, sore forearms or even some painful bruises due to an unfortunate contact with the reef.
Entering passive recovery or total rest before properly restoring the wounded muscle may cause incorrect healing.
Regardless of how you sustain your injury, our physiotherapists can help you get you back in the water in no time.
Tennis and golfing
Tennis and golfing injuries are very common. These sports both have injuries sustained while rotating the upper body, shoulders, arms and mostly involving immense stress to the wrists and elbow.
Physiotherapy can be great to recover from a tennis or a golfing injury, but also to strengthen your body so that these asymmetric sports put less stress on your body.
Functional movement programs can also aid in cross-training or conditioning your weak side before an injury happens.
Running and football
Sports such as running, trekking or even football also have common injuries due to the repetitive nature of the movement involved.
Ankle soreness, knee pain or issues involving the hips are very usual in sports where running is involved. Repetitive contacts with the floor can create micro traumas to your body that can add up with time.
Physiotherapy sessions help you to recover faster from your runs and to strengthen your body so that you can practice the sport you like with the strength needed to do it safely.
perform-ance sports
performance sports
Performance sports, such as acrobatics, gymnastics, pole dancing and calisthenics, forces the performer to lift their own body weight.
These type of sports require the whole body to be engaged. In some cases, the movements demand strength of the upper body and it puts strains on the joints in the wrists, elbow and shoulders.
To facilitate motion and inhibit pain and spasm to traumatised muscles or joints a physiotherapist may apply kinesio tape after passive therapy such as electrical stimulation / infrared to encourage recovery.
body building
Body building uses resistance machines & free weights to promote muscle hypertrophy. Some individuals may get injured by miscalculating their limits or causing muscle strains, tendons or ligaments tears with bad posture.
Passive physiotherapy aids in managing the pain and stimulating the body's ability to recover until the patient can engage in active physiotherapy. Then, the physiotherapist combines stretching and mild workouts to gradually condition the affected area to restore patient's mobility and strength.
How can physiotherapy help sports injuries?
Sport injuries are somewhat predictable. Each sport has its specific risks and will bring stress to some muscle groups more than others.
Rehabilitation with a physiotherapist can not only ease the pain and soreness of an already existing injury, it can also prevent subsequent injuries. By analyzing the types of movements that are needed for your sport, your physio can help strengthen your body where it is needed to reduce future harm.
Appointment Booking
Unsure of what you need? Meet our physiotherapist for an orientating consultation.
Our Physiotherapist is equiped to perform using therapy instruments such as TENS, Ultrasound, Infrared, Kinesio Tape and Dry-Needle. A combination of care will be determined based on the patients' ailments or discomfort level on the injured limb.
After using passive techniques such as Infrared / Ultrasound treatment for managing and reducing the discomfort or pain of an injury. Active physiotherapy or functional movement aids in returning the range of motion of the affected muscles / joints or even preventing future injuries.
