Sports Injuries

With sporting injuries, it’s not just about understanding the physical injury itself, but the understanding of all the particular components that influence an injury so enabling you to guide and direct the individual back to their full competitive fitness, whether that be at a social or international level. With this, the clinician must understand the full dynamics and requirements of the particular sport or event and how the forces and dynamics of that individual’s sport influences the trauma.   To enable this, not only must the clinician understand the physical aspects of the injury but also the psychological and social impacts it will have upon that individual.
 

As you will have seen from Mitch’s sporting profile he has a wide and varied understanding of many sports including running, swimming, field hockey, cycling, kayaking, skiing and underwater hockey, varying in ranges of social, semi-competitive to international level. With this, Mitch truly understands what an athlete requires not only to resolve the injury but to get back to their particular individual competitive fitness.

Mitch has a keen interest primarily in the rehabilitation of all field based sports, water based activities such as kayaking and swimming and a particular interest in skiing injuries. He deals with injuries ranging from simple muscle and ligament sprains to major reconstructions such as ACL & PCL reconstructions and shoulder rotator cuff repairs and stabilisations.

To help him take the person from injury to full competitive recovery he has a fully equipped modern gymnasium with all standard weights and CV equipment at his disposal, plus specific rehabilitation equipment and a hydrotherapy pool which is particularly useful at the early stage of most recoveries.