Book a Sports Injury Treatment Session in Singapore

The top 5 most common sports injury include:

1. Sprains
2. Strains
3. Rotator cuff or shoulder impingement
4. Shin splints
5. Knee ligament tears

Sustaining a sports injury can be frustrating, especially when it puts a pause on your athletic career and even interfere with your day-to-day activities.

Thankfully, taking proper care of your injury can help to speed up the recovery process. Here are some tips that can give you a speedier and fuller recovery:

• Follow the RICE (Rest, Ice, Compress, Elevate) method as soon as possible after sustaining a soft tissue injury such as a sprain, muscle pull or a tear
• Consult a doctor and get professional medical diagnosis and treatment promptly
• Rehabilitate with physiotherapy for a fuller recovery, even after the swelling and pain has subsided
• Understand why the injury occurred so that you can avoid worsening or repeating the injury
• Take small steps and ease back into your normal training after getting approval from your doctor

If there is something noticeably wrong or the injury is serious, take the athlete to the emergency department immediately.

However, in most cases, it’s best to wait a few minutes for things to settle and calm down after sustaining an injury. When the athlete is calmer, they are better able to express how they feel.

RICE is usually the first line of treatment:

• Rest the injury
• Ice the affected area once every hour for 20 minutes
• Compress the injury using an ace bandage or immobilise it with a splint
• Elevate the injury above the heart to reduce blood flow and swelling

Make an appointment with your doctor to properly diagnose and treat the injury as soon as possible.

Depending on the severity of the injury, the recovery time varies.

Minor injuries may only take a few weeks to heal, while severe injuries may require more extensive medical treatment such as surgery and/or physiotherapy. A full recovery can take months in more serious cases.

Every individual’s recovery and rehabilitation journey is different depending on your condition. The physiotherapist will be able to advise you of an appropriate treatment plan and frequency after the initial assessment.

Physiotherapists are allied health professionals who have an in-depth knowledge of how the body works and specialised hands-on clinical skills to assess, diagnose and treat injury and disability. Trained to pinpoint the root cause of injuries and other ailments, a physiotherapist will first assess your holistic health and wellbeing, before determining the kind of movements and exercises you can and should do to aid in recovery, taking into consideration a multitude of factors including your individual needs, conditions and mobility.

A physiotherapist may use different approaches to treat and manage your condition, including movement and exercise, manual therapy and hydrotherapy.

Homage Physiotherapists are individuals passionate and dedicated in caring for seniors and families in need. 100% Singaporean, they are certified under the Ministry of Health’s Allied Health Professions Council (AHPC).

Our physiotherapists specialised in diverse areas from orthopedic (conditions of the bones, muscles, ligaments, tendons and joints) to geriatric (age-related or progressive conditions).

Every Homage Home Physiotherapy Visit is one-hour long (60-minutes).

During your first visit, our physiotherapist will first assess your health and physical condition, understand the goals, develop and advise a personalised therapy treatment plan which can be completed in the home setting.

If time permits, the physiotherapist will also conduct these exercises with you during the first visit.

There is no need for any preparation.

If you have any doctor’s referral letter, previous physiotherapy/ medical reports or investigations (X-ray or MRI), we would recommend sharing these information with your physiotherapist for a more thorough understanding of your condition for therapy treatment.