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Sports Physiotherapy
The demands of professional sport are ever-increasing and injuries can be an inevitable reality for most sports players. Physiotherapy can be used as a healing process as well as a preventive measure and a means of conditioning. The range of sports injuries aided by physiotherapy is vast but is primarily focused on treatment of muscular pain, strains and the rehabilitation process following fractures and breaks in the bones or severe muscle or ligament tears.
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Muscular Pain
Usually aches and pains can be eased with intensive massage therapy which will reduce tension around the affected muscles, reduce stiffness and increase blood flow to warm the muscles. Most professional sports players have massages frequently; this helps to reduce tension as well as keeping the muscles in optimum condition; this will reduce the possibility of injury in the future.
Strains
Muscle Tears
Fractures and Breaks
Following a fracture or a break the area will need to heal. Once the healing process is underway, physiotherapy may be used to build up muscle strength and restore nerve activity. Exercises and stretches will gradually help to restore the affected area to normal but this process may take a long time particularly if the break was complex and affected a major bone such as the femur. Physiotherapists will gradually increase the amount of physical exercise the patient does which will build up strength and flexibility and increase the range of movement.
Repetitive Strain Injuries
Dimitris Sergakis
As a child, Dimitris was always active and participated in athletic activities such as climbing, cycling, swimming, gymnastics and team sports. However, competitive running was always his passion and by the age of 20 he was training and competing at national level in 100m and 200m sprinting events.
After graduating high school, Dimitris studied for five years Physical Education and Sports Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece where he graduated with honours (BSc(Hons)). During his educational and athletic career Dimitris gained extensive knowledge and experience in human anatomy and biomechanics as well as in injuries and musculoskeletal conditions. This drove his interest into the science of rehabilitation and therefore decided to move in Glasgow to continue his studies and pursue a career as a physiotherapist.
In 2010 Dimitris graduated from Glasgow Caledonian University with a MSc in Rehabilitation Science and got registered as a Physiotherapist with the Health Professions Council (HPC) and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP). Since then, he has been active as a sports physiotherapist in Partick Thistle Football Club as well as in the private sector where he treats patients with neuromusculoskeletal conditions or sports injuries.