Physiotherapy: injury & rehab

Sports Therapy Assignment 2000-2001 Level 2 Sport and Exercise Science Year 2 Focusing on a sport of your choice, use contemporary theory to critically discuss how a sports therapist could contribute towards the education, injury prevention and rehabilitation of the sport(s) participants. Provide examples of practice to support your theoretical argument. Wordage 2500 Introduction: Physiotherapy Kinesiology is essentially the study of human movement. The question ¡¥How a man moves¡¦ is an important question for a physiotherapist. Therefore, …

…rehabilitation of a sport participant.¡¦ While a coach or trainer would work with healthy thletes, the Sports Physiotherapist has a broader background in treating patiens of all ages and with a wider variety of physical problems. As this report has discussed, the Sports Physio provides not only expertise in rehabilitation and prevention of injuries but also in the education of others to continue to manifest their own traning around the advice of the Sports Physiotherapist.