Understanding Sports Injuries

Do I need a sports physio for my injuries?

Lumbar bone stress fractures common in teenage fast bowlers, often a combination of growing, more power and intensity, with an action that fatigues the bones that can eventually break if the signals are ignored.

Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome is pain extending all up and down the inside of your shin. If the pain becomes focal, aches at night and you can’t run through it, then we need to have a scan to exclude stress fratures.

Midfoot sprain, when your foot kind of flexes too far, but the ankle is ok. Also need to watch for base of 5th metatarsal fractures on the outside of the foot.

Syndesmosis sprain is often referred to as a high ankle sprain. It’s when the tibia and fibula are stretched apart at the bottom. These take longer to recover. Common in parachuting, landing heavily on the heel which is pushed up vertically, or just from heavy ankle sprains rolling off a defenders foot in netball, or of a curb celebrating later!

What can we do about it?

Jenkins Physiotherapy uses hands on manual therapy, exercises, dry needling, advice and ongoing recommendations to help your body recover. We can also recommend the right supportive bracing, slings and crutches or moon boots when it’s needed.

We look for ways to strengthen affected muscles and tendons, and progressively restore active range of movements, balance and confidence.

We want to find exercises that you can perform to help you back to normal gradually, and help your coach with ideas to keep you involved while recovering.

We have objective measures for you to meet to ensure safe progression back to running, training, and finally competition.

How can I get started?

Simply reach out to our friendly admin team, or go to our booking page and schedule an appointment at Jenkins Physiotherapy, Madeley in the Perth northern suburbs.

Remember your health fund card, or any referral documents from your GP or specialist to present to admin on arrival.

Wear something comfortable, so that we can assess the area that is of main concern.