Sports therapist:Job description
Sports therapists give advice to sport and exercise participants on how to train and compete safely, as well as treat injuries and assist with rehabilitation. Their aim is to prevent injuries and to help those who are injured to return to full fitness.
Sports therapy and rehabilitation is concerned with musculoskeletal conditions arising from sporting activity, not with general healthcare. It focuses on understanding and preventing sports injuries and dealing with the effects of physical and emotional trauma due to sports and exercise related injuries.
Sports therapists may work in sports injury clinics or may work directly with a sports club or sportsperson, either professional or amateur, or both. Many therapists combine working in this discipline with other sports-related roles. They may have a range of clients and workplaces, rather than being employed by one organisation.
Typical work activities
A sports therapist may be involved in any or all of the following activities:
• conducting an assessment of the players', athletes' or participants' readiness and advising on exercises prior to an event or fixture;
• testing joints for ease and range of movement;
• strapping, taping, offering massage and preparing players, athletes or participants both physically and mentally;
• providing emergency aid in a sport and exercise environment;
• examining and assessing injuries and determining whether the athlete or participant can continue playing or taking part;
• examining and assessing injuries and dealing with traumas, e.g. cuts, bruises and blisters;
• treating injuries, alleviating pain, mobilising injuries, giving various types of massage;
• rehabilitating injuries by using manual therapy techniques, apparatus and electrotherapy;
• designing and monitoring rehabilitation programmes appropriate to the injury and/or sport and level;
• deciding whether athletes, players or participants need extra treatments and coordinating referrals to other practitioners;
• advising players or athletes on diet and nutrition (when therapists are appropriately trained);
• working alone or with coaches, trainers and/or fitness advisers to implement exercise, conditioning, core stability and injury prevention programmes, so that athletes, players or participants reach and maintain peak performance;
• liaising with other health professionals in the sports sector and in mainstream medicine.
Sports therapist:Job description
Sports therapists give advice to sport and exercise participants on how to train and compete safely, as well as treat injuries and assist with rehabilitation. Their aim is to prevent injuries and to help those who are injured to return to full fitness.
Sports therapy and rehabilitation is concerned with musculoskeletal conditions arising from sporting activity, not with general healthcare. It focuses on understanding and preventing sports injuries and dealing with the effects of physical and emotional trauma due to sports and exercise related injuries.
Sports therapists may work in sports injury clinics or may work directly with a sports club or sportsperson, either professional or amateur, or both. Many therapists combine working in this discipline with other sports-related roles. They may have a range of clients and workplaces, rather than being employed by one organisation.
Typical work activities
A sports therapist may be involved in any or all of the following activities:
• conducting an assessment of the players', athletes' or participants' readiness and advising on exercises prior to an event or fixture;
• testing joints for ease and range of movement;
• strapping, taping, offering massage and preparing players, athletes or participants both physically and mentally;
• providing emergency aid in a sport and exercise environment;
• examining and assessing injuries and determining whether the athlete or participant can continue playing or taking part;
• examining and assessing injuries and dealing with traumas, e.g. cuts, bruises and blisters;
• treating injuries, alleviating pain, mobilising injuries, giving various types of massage;
• rehabilitating injuries by using manual therapy techniques, apparatus and electrotherapy;
• designing and monitoring rehabilitation programmes appropriate to the injury and/or sport and level;
• deciding whether athletes, players or participants need extra treatments and coordinating referrals to other practitioners;
• advising players or athletes on diet and nutrition (when therapists are appropriately trained);
• working alone or with coaches, trainers and/or fitness advisers to implement exercise, conditioning, core stability and injury prevention programmes, so that athletes, players or participants reach and maintain peak performance;
• liaising with other health professionals in the sports sector and in mainstream medicine.
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