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Sports Injury Assessments
Exceptional injury analysis allowing reduced injury and enhanced performance.
As Injuries are complex and multifaceted, our Initial assessment, will focus on understanding the history and the mechanism of injury and how the bio-mechanical impact your sport / lifestyle places on your body. This is followed by completing a full musculoskeletal assessment, which helps identify the source of the exact issues.
Our assessments, diagnosis and treatments are completed through a combination of methods that may include: manual therapy, manipulation and dry needling; modalities such as IASMT, taping, Cupping, Ultrasound, TENS and exercise prescription. Education plays an important role, and our teams goals are to return you to your optimal function and strength, while educating you about your injury. This allows you to independently maintain a healthy body without the constant supervision of a therapist, which is key in reducing recovery times and optimising performance and movement.
An example of the typical Injuries we treat are:
• Ligament and joint Sprains and Strains
• Muscle Strains and tears
• Tennis / Golfers Elbow
• Running Injuries – Plantar Fasciitis, Shin Splints, Achilies tendinopathies, stress fractures etc.
• Bio-mechanical irregularities
• Illiotibial Band Syndrome (ITB)
• Sciatica
• Pre and Post Operative rehabilitation.
• Rotator Cuff Injuries
• Spinal Disk related Injuries.
Physiotherapy
Approved by major Insurances, our experienced MSK Physiotherapists clinical excellence, provides first class Injury Diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation plans to empower you with taking ownership of your recovery.
Sports Massage Therapy
An amazing array of treatments for any individual or athlete who is struggling with tension, spasms, postural imbalances and firing pattern issues within their muscles.
Our experts offer a bespoke service of varying skills and techniques to suit your budget and requirments, from Myofascial release, chronic tension reduction, imbalance correction, Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Manipulation (IASTM), cupping, TENS, trigger point therapy, soft tissue release, muscle firing correction and hot stone therapy.
Lets face it, we all push things too far sometimes, and at 8th Element we know a thing or two about movement. Which is where our specialist massage therapy treatments can help.
Its essential in promoting and improving muscle recovery, physical fitness and mental awareness; in turn helping to reduce rehabilitation times and alleviating physical and mental stress levels, promoting excellent performance, health and well being.
Each treatment is individually tailored, in order to help you release tension, relieve pain, improve imbalances and firing patterns through mobilising soft tissues in order to improve performance and prevent injury.
You’ll speed up your heeling process and significantly reduce any discomfort within the muscle fascia or connective tissue by mobilising, loosening, and helping eliminate cramps, spasms, tears and bruising.
Not only that, the increased blood flow and circulation allows significant toxin removal improving the supply of your wonder healing molecule ‘OXYGEN’, improving nutrient supply to the soft tissues. All in all assisting muscular Range of movement, muscle recruitment and recovery.
Shockwave Therapy (R-ESWT)
A revolutionary therapy clinically proven and highly effective for soft tissue tendon injuries and chronic pain.
High-tech, non-invasive treatment for chronic soft tissue, tendon and certain bone conditions.
Our Radial Shockwave system exerts a mechanical pressure and tension force (high energy pulses), which are applied through the applicator head-on contact to the injury site, and dependant on the site and condition you are treating, its scientifically proven to yield and speed up approx 82% in the healing process through 3-6 sessions.
This mechanical pressure causes cavitation (formation of empty space) in the tissues. As these bubbles collapse, they create smaller secondary energy waves, further assisting in the breakdown of pathological deposits within the damaged tissues. The several thousand shockwaves that are applied through injured tissue help create stimulation of fibroblasts (cells fundamental in the formation and healing of our muscle/tendon/ligament/skin tissues) and osteoblasts (cells that form new bone) enhancing the healing process and cell generation of soft tissue and bones.
Reducing Pain:
ESWT also targets pain by stimulating anaesthesia where nerves sending pain signals to the brain become over stimulated resulting in decreased activity thus diminishing or eliminating pain. After a few treatments the pain gate control mechanism alters its stimulation, and as a result, we see longer periods of decreased pain. Finally, ESWT is believed to trigger a ‘reset’ button that recalibrates pain perception centrally.
So why not target your tendon, ligament, muscle or joint pain effectively and enhance post surgical recovery, while receiving tailor rehabilitation for your lifestyle or sporting needs?
Issues Commonly Treated:
* Plantar fasciitis
* Shoulder pain, e.g. calcific lesions of the rotator cuff and bony spurs
* Lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow)
* Medial epicondylitis (golfer‘s elbow)
* Patellar tendonitis (jumper‘s knee)
* Tibial stress syndrome (shin pain)
* Achilles tendonitis
* Hip pain (bursitis)
* Heel pain, heel spurs
* Chronic neck dysfunction
* Illiotibial Band (ITB) Friction Syndrome
Mummy MOT
The specialised postnatal check every mum deserves.
Welcome to the UK’s most comprehensive postnatal assessment to ensure your body gets as much care and attention as your baby.
Within which we'll ensuring you understand how to optimally recover from birth and are able to confidently return to the activities you love.
It's the ultimate postnatal solution for both athletes and everyday mums alike!
Pilates
Pilates is a deep dive into the way your body moves, compensates and feels.
The sessions are personalised for your own goals and move at a pace suitable for you and are based on physiotherapy, biomechanical, anatomical and clinical research, with a special emphasis on pain, pathology and function.
1:1 Pilates is a fantastic way for you to become more in tune with postural and body awareness; to learn precision of movement, breath control and mindfulness, promote core stability, flexibility, endurance and strength and with our APPI instructor we are able to help you, regardless of wether you are in early stages of rehabilitation; looking to complement your training goals or enhance movement at an elite stage,
Its perfect for:
• Those with persistent or ongoing pain
• Those finding certain movements challenging or difficult
• If your goal is to increase flexibility or strength in certain areas of your body
• Looking for accountability and tailored exercises
• Recovering from an injury, illness or surgery
• Mothers and Mothers-to-be
• Those playing a sport and are looking to Pilates to complement training to help keep you at peak performance and reduce the chance of injury.
• Those wanting time for self-care and a mindful-based approach to exercise.
Virtual Injury Clinic
Our Virtual Injury Clinic allows our expert practitioners to bring their clinical expertise, physical assessments, coaching, pain relief and rehabilitation directly to you.
Helping restore movement, reducing discomfort and enhancing way of life.
During the Virtual appointments we'll coach you through postural screens, and injury tests so you'll need a little room to move around.
Once complete, we'll explain your injury, coach you through self treatment and create a bespoke rehabilitation plan for your lifestyle or sporting demands.
Our Virtual Injury Clinical appointments are just as effective, if not more so than a face to face consultation and can all be done from the comfort of your own home.
Our secure clinical Telehealth conferencing software, and payment services, ensure your information is secure and encrypted.
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Located at: To the side of:, 48 Windmill Street, Strood
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