Sports Therapists

Feeling the pain?

Don’t despair........

Contact one of our Sports Therapists for help and advice.

Treatments available include:

Sports massage; Sports Injury Treatments and Training/injury prevention advice

What is a Sports Therapist?

A sports therapist helps injured athletes return to full functionality, regardless of their age, sport or ability.
Sports therapy is focused on:

understanding and preventing sports injuries;
dealing with the effects of physical and emotional trauma surrounding sports injuries;
the clinical process of returning athletes to peak fitness in the relevant sport.
conducting an assessment of the players' or athletes' readiness;
testing joints for ease and range of movement;
strapping, taping, offering massage and preparing players or athletes physically and mentally;
advising on stretching, warming up and cooling down exercises.
examining and assessing injuries and dealing with traumas, e.g., cuts, bruises and blisters;
deciding whether athletes or players 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 reach and maintain peak performance;
liaising with other health professionals in the sports sector and in mainstream medicine.

In addition, a sports therapist offering rehabilitation programmes would typically be involved in:

examining and assessing injuries;
treating injuries, alleviating pain, mobilising injuries, giving various types of massage;
rehabilitating injuries by using manipulative techniques, apparatus and electrotherapy;
designing and monitoring rehabilitation programmes appropriate to the injury and the sport.

The line between sports therapy and sports rehabilitation is often blurred and many practitioners offer a full range of therapy and rehabilitation services.

Sports therapy is now available at Coventry Sports Foundation sites via our team of Therapists; Hector Blackman, Simon Harris, Thomas Hames, Georgia Johnson and Nathan Soesan all of whom have a BSc (Honours) in Sports Therapy from Coventry University.

Please contact reception using the contact details below to arrange an appointment.

Who to contact

For more information about any of the actvities featured on this page, please contact:

Nathan

07772567847

nsoesan@hotmail.com

Tom

07916284458

tomhames@hotmail.com

Simon

07950833250

s.harris_sportstherapist@yahoo. co.uk

Georgia

07791594845

Georgia_johnson89@hotmail.com

Hector

07956815313

hb.sports.therapy@gmail.com

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024 7666 5530

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024 7685 6956

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024 7630 8244

ahcreception@covsf.com

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