Rehabilitation and Conditioning
Along-side advice and education about your symptoms and your body, your Spires Physiotherapist
will provide you with a tailored rehabilitation programme to match your functional goals. Your
exercises will be based on the outcome of your assessment and will work towards achieving your
individual aims. For example, recovering from an ankle injury involves very different exercises if
you’re a cyclist compared to if you’re a dancer. The aim of rehabilitation isn’t just to get you back to
pre-injury function, but to get you performing better than you were before your injury in order to
prevent recurrence of your symptoms and improve your sporting performance. At Spires
Physiotherapy, we use Physitrack video exercises which can be viewed online via an account set-up
for you by your physiotherapist. Your exercise program can also be viewed on the Physitrack
PhysiApp on your smartphone. We can also send you a PDF copy of your program if this is preferred.
Whether you are recovering from a fracture, muscle tear, ligament sprain or a tendon injury, you are
likely to need to build some strength during your rehabilitation process. Most injuries require a
period of rest, which ultimately leads to deconditioning and weakness. At Spires Physiotherapy, all of
our physiotherapists are experts in strength and conditioning principles and stay up to date with
emerging evidence. We also use handheld dynamometers to objectively measure your strength in
the clinic in order to assess your strength levels at the initial assessment and track your strength
gains as you recover.
