Osteopathy and sport

Casual or regular athlete, your body endures some constraints. Some physical disturbances and pains might appear. Your osteopath is a specialist in different domains: anatomy and physiology. His main actions will be to prevent or heal sport linked aches. He is consulted by athletes to get relieved and improve their performances.

Sport is highly recommended but might be painful

Spasm, sprain, torn muscle, local inflammation, arthritis and chronic pain block are sometimes the consequences to sport. Any restriction or loss of mobility dealing with muscle, joint or peri-articular elements leads to impaired performances and health status, especially if you let things drag.

Osteopathy is good for you

  • Healing  :
    Osteopathy treats your sport traumas. It helps you in keeping your body balance and to improve your performances. Using appropriate techniques based on globality, it restores the mobility of your bone, muscle and organic systems.
    This science is adapted to random sports to correct the consequences of falls, bad reception, or repeated moves.
  • Helping you strengthening :
    Osteopathy might help to improve your flexibility in joints, ligaments and your breath capacity for a better recovery after effort. It will improve your muscle power and will enable to increase your weights and training qualities. As a result, it will reduce the risk of wound.

When to consult ?

  • As a preventive:
    • To make an osteopathic review
    • Before starting a sport or a new sea
    • To prepare for a sporting event or a training program
    • Before an occasional sport session
    • To improve its performance
    • Prior to attending a gym
  • As a curative :
    • After random aches such as: sprain, torn muscle, ligament, contraction, joint fusion, surgery, falls without lesions visible on radiography
    • To rebalance the exact joint lines disrupted by a shock
    • Sensation of limiting or blocking

Signs

  • Joint pain
  • Muscle pain
  • Tennis elbow
  • Headaches, dizziness
  • Shortness of breath on exertion
  • Recovery between hard and after training sessions or deadlines
  • Lumbago
  • Back pain
  • Neck pain
  • Digestive disorder
  • Sleep disorder
  • Concentration difficulties
  • Mobility difficulties
  • Etc…