We hold any new injuries/initial appointments on a Saturday. Follow-up appointments for these complaints can then be made on either a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday.
Steven has a very specific approach - where possible, he will use more active approaches to injury management and treatment (e.g. exercise rehabilitation) to encourage patient empowerment and reducing reliance on others to improve your outcomes - this means less frequent appointments where suitable and more money in your bank account as well. But this all requires your trust in the process, which Steven will explain in the initial appointment. We believe that passive methods (e.g. soft tissue massage techniques) can provide some short-term relief of symptoms, but are not the long-term solution - to put it simply, someone rubbing a muscle would not solve the issue that led to the injury in the first place, and will usually see you booking in forever-more to manage symptoms... At times, it may be suitable to apply a short course of passive treatments to complement more active methods. All of this will be explained where necessary within your appointment. We must stress however - if you want to be prodded on a monthly basis to only feel good in the short-term but struggle again with the injury beyond that and repeat this on a monthly basis, then this is not the right place for you. There may be a requirement of this approach in certain instances to help manage symptoms or pain, but this should be discussed.
Through discussion and a series of movements, tests, strength and mobility assessments, SR Sports Therapy aims to identify factors that may have led to the injury. This is then used to decide the best treatment and exercise rehabilitation plan to get you back better than ever. Recommendations for the treatment plan will be made in your Personal Recovery Plan that you'll be given by your therapist. We then apply principles of both rehabilitation and strength & conditioning to ensure a fast return to function. These principles aim to create adaptation in the affected tissues to ensure that the structures heal optimally. This could include focusing on strengthening, joint mobility, flexibility, speed or movement quality. We can even offer on-pitch sessions (subject to pitch-booking charges) to get you back to sport with functional training exercises.
We offer a large variation of treatments, but must stress we place a large emphasis where possible on active treatment methods - this empowers you, the patient, to take control of your recovery and become less reliant on others or passive means of treatment such as sports massage. When we see it suitable, we may include a variety of techniques from joint mobilisations and soft tissue techniques, muscle stimulation (Compex), blood flow restriction training, exercise rehabilitation, field-based rehabilitation to get you back to sport, and can even source venues for hydrotherapy sessions on request (pre-payment required for hydrotherapy session bookings).
Struggling to recover between training or competition and think you need some help? Methods or techniques that can be applied are dependant on your needs, including:
This approach would suit those who are free of injury but want to maximise their recovery. A portion of the session time will be spent reviewing progress (follow-up sessions) and taking some objective measures to assess effectiveness of the treatment. If booking for recovery purposes only, patients should be free from injury and book a Sports Therapy & rehabilitation session, specifying in the notes that it is for a recovery-based session.
Sports therapists are trained to provide assessment and treatment for a variety of musculoskeletal complaints no matter their original cause - so this could include muscle strains, ligament sprains, tendon injuries, lower back pain, neck pain, and a whole host of other conditions. If you still aren't sure, why not drop us an email or telephone call to discuss your problems and we can point you in the right direction, whether that is with us or another provider.
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When possible please provide more than 24 hours notice for appointment cancellations to avoid incurring charges relating to the missed appointment.
Less than 24 hours or no notice will result in pre-payment being requested on booking of future appointment appointment and a 50% fee will be charged for to cover the missed appointment. This balance must be cleared to secure any future appointments, and the proceeding appointment will need to be paid in advance (e.g. 1 missed £55 appointment with a new appointment booked, would require you pay in advance £82.50).
If you have pre-paid for any appointments or block bookings, any cancellations with less than 24 hours or no notice will result in the loss of the appointment from the total number of sessions pre-paid for; the session will not be transferrable or re-arranged in these circumstances.
Our clinic is based inside CR Fitness, Unit 6 Vulcan Park, George Street, Lincoln LN5 8LG. When entering Vulcan Park, CR fitness is located at the opposite end of the car park to 'Axed Lincoln'. Park anywhere in the shared car park, enter CR Fitness. To get to our clinic room once inside the gym, walk toward the main gym floor space, and up the stairs on the left - as we are upstairs, please let me know in advance if this is going to be problematic.
Either wait on the chair to the right of the entrance door of the gym or if the clinic room door is open head on up as I likely am either coaching a patient downstairs or am free upstairs - if the door is shut, just wait in the waiting area downstairs next to the gym entrance.
It may not be often, but sometimes appointments may over-run for various reasons and I am sure as a patient you would appreciate that there may be times that to be thorough appointments may take a little longer than planned; if this is the case then please continue waiting downstairs, we will be with you as soon as we are finished, and appreciate your patience.
We advise patients to bring/to wear clothing that enables us to assess the area appropriately. For lower limb injuries that is generally having access to or wearing shorts, and bringing trainers with you. For upper limb and neck related injuries, females are advised to wear a strapped top to allow us to see these areas easily. For males, there may be times we need you to remove your t-shirt to allow us to see or treat the area. Where appropriate, we might use a variety of movements to assess you (where appropriate for on the injury), so wearing clothing you are happy to move around in is advised.
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