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Sports Injuries
Assessment, treatment and a graded return to training or competition.
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Sports Injuries
Whether you’re training for enjoyment, competing in events, or simply getting to the gym regularly, sports injuries can be frustrating. They may happen suddenly during a session, or they can creep in over time as training places more demand on your body than it’s currently able to tolerate.
At Nexus HealthHub, we assess sports injuries to help you understand:
- What structure(s) may be involved
- Why the problem developed in the first place
- The clearest path back to training and, when relevant, competition
A defined timeframe, not open-ended treatment
Common Sports Injuries
We often see problems involving:
- Muscles and tendons
- Ligaments and joints
- Lower back and neck
- Shoulder and elbow
- Hip and groin
- Knee
- Ankle and foot
- Running-related injuries
- Overuse problems
- Recurrent training-related pain
Some injuries result from a specific moment such as a sprain, strain, or impact. Others build gradually due to repeated loading and recovery not quite keeping up with training.
How We Assess Sports Injuries
We look at both the injury itself and what your sport requires from you.
Depending on your presentation, your assessment may include:
- Clinical examination
- Range of motion testing
- Strength testing
- Movement analysis
- Neurological or orthopaedic testing where appropriate
- Balance and control testing
- Force plate assessment
- Left-to-right comparisons
- Review of training load and recent activity
Where it’s helpful, we may also use objective technology to support the assessment, including:
- VALD HumanTrak
- ForceDecks
- DynaMo
This can provide extra insight into movement, strength, and neuromuscular performance.
How We Can Help
After assessment, we build a plan around you. Treatment and rehabilitation are tailored to the specific injury and your training goals, and may include:
- Chiropractic care
- Manual and soft tissue therapy
- Dry needling
- Exercise rehabilitation
- Strength and conditioning
- Personal training
- MLS® Laser Therapy
- Hilterapia®
- Shockwave therapy
- Movement and performance testing
- Sports and exercise nutrition
For sports injuries, the aim is usually more than symptom relief, we want to restore the physical qualities needed for the activity you want to return to. That often includes:
- Rebuilding strength
- Improving movement quality
- Increasing tissue tolerance
- Gradually reintroducing sport-specific demands
If further investigation is needed, we can also recommend the appropriate imaging or specialist medical assessment.
Return to Sport
Returning to sport is rarely a single “yes/no” decision. We support a progression back to training based on your clinical findings and your capacity to perform.
Depending on the injury, we may use:
- Functional testing
- Objective strength and performance measures
- Clinical findings to guide progression
The goal is to help you return with confidence and the physical ability to tolerate the demands of your sport.
Common questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Not always. In many cases, we can modify training so you maintain fitness while the injured area recovers.
Recurrent issues often benefit from reassessment of strength, movement, training load, and rehabilitation, rather than repeatedly treating the symptoms alone.
It depends on the injury, its severity, your sport, and how you respond to rehabilitation. We focus on readiness based on function and capacity, not time alone.
Yes. We work with recreational and competitive athletes, including runners, CrossFit and HYROX athletes, endurance athletes, and strength-based athletes.
Not necessarily. Many sports injuries can be assessed effectively in clinic. If imaging is appropriate, we’ll discuss the most suitable next step with you.
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