Sports & Performance
Physiotherapists will treat your acute or chronic sports injury by providing individualized sport specific treatment and progressions designed at improving: Motion, Strength, Motor patterns, Endurance, Alignment of joints, Biomechanics.
Treatment is designed to not only treat your injury but also to improve your motor patterning or movement used in your sport, therefore enhancing your performance, and reducing your risk of future injury.
A concussion is an invisible injury that is not often seen but is felt. Any force that causes the brain to move rapidly and hit against the inside of the skull can cause a concussion. The symptoms may vary by person; some symptoms may include concentration difficulty, memory problems, decrease in balance, fatigue, blurred vision, light/sound sensitivity, difficulty sleeping, neck pain and ringing in the ears. Physiotherapists can do cognitive examinations as well as physical assessments to help treat a concussion. The Physiotherapist may implement a treatment plan to treat any neck pain, and post concussional symptoms experienced.
Physiotherapists design and teach an exercise program tailored to the client's interests, which might include upper and lower body strengthening/conditioning exercises, core stability and spinal strengthening exercises, and specific guidelines for cardiovascular fitness using a heart rate monitor. These programs can improve your fitness level and reduce your risk factors for chronic disease.
Golf Instruction can also be provided by our Physiotherapists on the correct stance, and correct swing mechanics. At the Ayr Physiotherapy Clinic, we will record your swing and assist in correcting any biomechanical issues. In addition, we will provide flexibility exercises, and core stability instruction pertinent to creating your ideal swing and golf score.
Plantar fasciitis is a painful condition of the tissue that supports the arch of the foot. Physiotherapists may provide treatment including heat or ice, stretching of tight calf and foot muscles, strengthening exercises for muscles in the foot, ankle, and leg, to improve alignment and reduce excess stress on the plantar fascia.
Unique to the Ayr Physiotherapy Clinic our Physiotherapists provide recorded analysis of your running technique and specific instructions/exercises that allow you to improve running efficiency and form, to reduce the likelihood of injury. The Physiotherapist will do an assessment including flexibility, low and high load stability exercises, foot posturing/shoe evaluation, and biomechanical analysis of running form. Whether you are someone who wants to begin running or are already a recreational or elite runner, we will create an individual program tailored to you.
Tennis elbow is a common term for a condition caused by overuse of the arm, forearm, and hand muscles that results in elbow pain. This condition is typically caused by either abrupt or subtle injury of the muscle and tendon area around the outside of the elbow. A Physiotherapist can help reduce the pain of tennis elbow by providing stretches and exercises to strengthen the muscles and tendon around the injured elbow. Overall, people with tennis elbow will improve and recover by following a treatment plan given by the Physiotherapist.