Living With A Sports Injury

If you’ve recently picked up a Sports Injury, or if you’ve been suffering with an injury for a while – it can be very tempting to pass it off as “nothing serious” and simply “put up with it” carrying on as best you can.

Or, it can be very easy to get disheartened and end up feeling “stuck”, wondering if you’ll ever be able to get back to playing sport or keeping active like you used to…

If this is happening to you, you’re not alone – we see people going through this all the time. In fact, we see a lot of patients living with an injury from sports and exercise in our physio clinic in Solihull – and the one question that comes up every time is:

It’s Been Months Now – So Why am I STILL Suffering With an Injury That’s Stopping Me From Being Active and Playing My Favourite Sport?

Most people think that when they get a Sports Injury it’ll get better with a few days rest, and that they’ll be able to return to their sport or exercise again. But then when they go back to exercise again they’re still restricted – sometimes it’s even worse than it was when it first came on. Often when you rest there is little if any pain – but as soon as you start up again, it comes back and no matter how much rest you give it – it doesn’t seem to be improving.

Does That Sound Like You?

Another scenario we see all the time in our Physio Clinic in Solihull is when people go to the Doctors, and the Doctor tells them they need to take a break, rest, wear a support and “try painkillers” – but then 4 weeks later they end up going back to the same Doctor again because the injury hasn’t got any better, only to be given MORE rest, and ANOTHER prescription of even stronger pills.

The problem is that when it comes to sports injuries – hamstrings, ankle sprains, runner’s knee etc – Complete rest is rarely the best advice.

So maybe you’re confused and frustrated because you’ve been told different things, by different people.

Sports injuries can be very confusing because more often than not, where the pain is coming from. Maybe you think you have a back problem – but it’s actually the hip where the problem came from?

This confusion over “resting” often leads people to continue to procrastinate and put off making a decision about what to do to help fix their injury and return back to exercise. Worse, many people just end up accepting ‘their days of being active are over’ – as if it’s normal, as if it ‘has’ to be that way.

Having to be careful when exercising with an injury is another bug bear. Patients worried of the injury worsening or an old injury reappearing is something we see very often. 

In reality, despite the fact that sports injuries are quite common, most kinds can be managed with effective treatment, helping you get back to doing what you love.

The good news, is we can help! 

At Urban Body Solihull, we understand sports injuries and we can help. We see a lot of patients with different injuries, some are in so much agony that they can’t even walk.  In fact, sports injuries are one the most common problems that we see in our physio clinic in Solihull.

We believe that no one should be suffering daily from a sports injury, even if it’s just the occasional niggle, you don’t need to put up with it and we know what needs to be done to help.