Sports Rehabilitation Centers
Sports rehabilitation centers are institutes which help in faster recovery from any injury or physical trauma sustained during various sports related activities. Anyone who wishes to improve on existing mobility and physical endurance can be a patron to these sports rehabilitation centers. Even a regular gymnasium can be categorically called a sports rehabilitation center, but there are rehabilitation centers dedicated to specific sports as well. To be a member of any rehabilitation center one need not actively pursue any sport activity, any enthusiast can join a sports rehabilitation center. These centers provide detailed evaluation of skills and endurance and ways to improve them. Commonly, it includes designing of guidelines and physical exercise plan to be followed. Some rehabilitation centers also go to the extent of providing diet plan and regular evaluation of performance and corrective measures required. To ensure that patrons are satisfied with the services provided, any rehabilitation center is supported by a team of experts such as:
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Dietician
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Physical instructor / physiotherapist and or Yoga instructors (recent trend)
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Consultants
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Occupational therapists and
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Supportive operations team (technicians, assistants etc)
These rehabilitation centers are equipped with state of art advanced technical equipments and provide superior facilities to ensure safe and expedient recovery for its patients. This has also become an inevitable requirement with growing competition and new advanced rehabilitation centers coming up in every nook and corner. A host of services are provided by any modern sports rehabilitation center. The list can encompassany or most of the services mentioned below:
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Aquatic rehabilitation / hydrotherapy
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Neurodynamic assessment and treatment
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Sport specific rehabilitation
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Motion analysis and rectification
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Manual therapy
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Electrotherapy
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Cryotherapy / thermal therapy
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Nutritional advice
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Training advice
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Sports psychology and
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Active rehabilitation
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Some centers also provide specialized treatment for patients of stroke, paralysis, and amputees.
The multi-disciplinary services available at sports rehabilitation centers can be taken by anyone who wants to raise performance or is seeking treatment for recovery from an injury.
The ideal goal of any sports rehabilitation center is to ensure the patient regains the lost mobility, is relieved of pain and preventing these injuries from reoccurring. To help meet its goal sports rehabilitation centre would require vast array of equipments to support its services. These equipments along with expert guidance would help various athletes, fitness seekers, amateurs and injured to achieve optimum levels of performance in an environment with minimum risk.
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Treadmills / pedometers
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Traction therapy tools
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Rehabilitation and exercise equipments
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Cardio equipments
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Professional massagestables and chairs
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Thermal therapy tools
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Hydrotherapy whirlpool tubs
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Exercise videos and charts
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Parallel bars
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Magnet therapy equipments
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Medical equipments (x-rays, ultrasonography, thermometers, stethoscope and other commonly used tools)
These equipments along with supplementary products and information brochures or catalogs would help even a novice to understand the importance of proper sports rehabilitation and ideal way to achieve the optimum performance levels. With such a distinguished collection of equipments, host of services coupled under expert advice and guidance will certainly make any sports rehabilitation centre a ‘one spot solution’ for fitness seekers from all walks of life.
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