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Spinal Rehab and Sports Therapy

What is Spinal Rehab?

The human spine devoid of its musculature is inherently unstable. Therefore our muscles play an important role in the stabilisation of our spine. Upper, mid and low back disorders are commonly associated with poor posture and everyday movements patterns secondary to weak, lengthened, overactive or shortened muscles. Low back pain sufferers often demonstrate poor posture and decreased lumbar spine stability.

Spinal rehabilitation is a treatment therapy which primarily focuses on stabilisation of the spine alongside functional movement, and is performed by sports therapists within our clinic. The treatment incorporates core stability training, utilising body control and awareness through neutral spinal alignment, accurate breathing patterns within movement and the strengthening of spinal stabilisers such as the multifidis, transverse abdominis and the pelvic floor musculature.


Our approach is to isolate and re establish function of the stabilising muscles, progressing to controlled movements of the lumbar spine and pelvic girdle and finally maintaining stability of the spine with high speed motion and functional activities.

The benefits of spinal rehabilitation include injury cure and prevention from conditions such as non specific back pain and vertebral disk related injuries. In addition, our patients will also benefit from an improved postural muscle endurance capacity and an improved efficiency of functional movement within their daily life.

What is Clinical Sports Therapy?

Sports therapy is a specialised sector of health care that deals with the cure and prevention of injuries and patient rehabilitation, returning individuals to optimal levels of functional occupation and specific fitness.

Management of injuries within the Hampstead Chiropractic Clinic are conducted by our Sports Therapists, where treatment plans are formulated specifically to the patient’s injury requirements. Treatments may include specific soft tissue manipulations (sports massage, deep friction massage and myofascial release), joint mobilisation, cryotherapy, heat therapy, electrotherapy and/or remedial exercise. Mobilisations are of benefit to our patients as they help restore normal ranges of motion and decrease pain within a joint post injury. Techniques such as deep friction and myofascial release help to treat scar tissue, muscular adhesions, rebuild the soft tissues and restore balance to the musculo-skeletal system.

In addition to treating the symptoms the sports therapist also looks at the root causes of each particular injury. Subsequently, a variety of rehabilitation exercises will be prescribed to improve muscular/joint strength, proprioception (balance and coordination), posture and muscle imbalance, in order to reduce the likelihood of the injury and maximise the patient's lifestyle function.

What does it help?

Hampstead Chiropractic Spinal Rehabilitation and Sport therapy is an essential treatment choice for everyone whether injuries were sustained through occupational or recreational activities. We care for a wide range of clients, from desk workers to manual workers, runners to cyclists, housewives to civil servants and entertainers to sports enthusiasts.

Sports Therapy and Spinal Rehabilitation are treatment programmes which treat conditions of the musculoskeletal system. Cure and prevention can be attained through these therapies for conditions relating to the spine, peripheral joints, muscle, tendons, ligaments and bone. The main short and long term aims are to relieve patients symptoms of pain, swelling, and stiffness while improving range of motion, strength and function, associated with injury.

Spinal rehabilitation primarily focuses on conditions which are related to the head, neck, spinal cord and peripheral nerves, vertebral disk and joints. we accept patients with conditions such as Lumbago (non specific back pain), prolapsed (slipped) disk, herniated disk, sciatica, facet joint syndrome, vertebral ligament sprains and back muscles strains.

Sports Therapy encompasses the treatment of all injuries related to the shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand, hip, knee, ankle and foot joints. Conditions of an acute (initial) or chronic (long term) nature can be successfully treated by our sports therapists who manage soft tissue disorders including bone fractures, muscular ruptures/strains, ligament ruptures/sprains, cartilage tears, joint stiffness and muscular micro traumas (haematomas e.g. dead leg).

Within the Hampstead Chiropractic Clinic, Sports therapy can help alleviate the following common upper limb injuries of the shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand joints:

• Impingement syndrome
• Frozen shoulder syndrome
• Rotator cuff ruptures/strains
• Shoulder dislocations
• Tennis elbow
• Golfers elbow
• Carpel tunnel syndrome
• Skiers thumb

Common Injuries of the lower limb sustained by our patients can also be solved with our clinic such as:

• ITB syndrome
• Runners knee
• Anterior cruciate ruptures/strains (pre, post or non surgical intervention)
• Posterior cruciate ruptures/strains (pre, post or non surgical intervention)
• Medial and lateral ligament ruptures and sprains
• Meniscus (cartilage) injuries (pre, post or non surgical intervention)
• Patella (knee cap) femoral joint deficiencies
• Medial tibial stress syndrome (Shin splints)
• Lateral/medial ligament sprains
• Plantar fasciitis
• Achilles tendon rupture/strain
• Chronic ankle ligament instability syndrome.

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