Are you an aspiring or current athlete who is looking to maximize your athletic potential and improve your performance? Whether you are new to your sport, a current athlete, or a professional athlete, performance physical therapy could be the key to achieving your sport-specific goals and decreasing your chance of injuries. If you are unsure what the benefits of performance physical therapy are, unsure how you could improve your athletic potential, or unsure how to reach new heights in your athletic career, this is the blog for you!
What is Performance Physical Therapy?
Unlike standard physical therapy clinics where providers are seeing 3-4 patients an hour, lack the equipment to address athletes, and focus more on a reactive approach to treatment, performance-based clinics, such as MotionRX, treat athletes with 1 on 1 care in an hour, focus on athletic performance and sport-specific goals, and have the ability to simulate sport specific training for injury prevention. By focusing on injury prevention, performance physical therapists take more of a proactive approach to treatment allowing athletes to continue with their sports and optimize overall physical fitness. By assessing an athlete’s strengths and weaknesses, muscle imbalances, movement patterns, and mobility, performance physical therapists are able to create a personalized training program to achieve peak performance in a safe and effective manner.
The Benefits of Performance Physical Therapy
Injury Prevention: Performance physical therapists specialize in identifying weaknesses, muscular imbalances, and movement dysfunctions that can increase an athlete’s risk of injury during training and competitions.
Improved Strength: Performance PT’s focus on enhancing an athlete’s strength and mobility, which increases their force production during explosive activities such as jumping, cutting, running, or throwing.
Faster Recovery: By seeing a performance physical therapist following an injury, the patient recovers at quicker times due to the appropriate dosing of exercise and the clear guidelines for training following an injury.
Individualized Approach: Each plan of care is specialized to the athlete’s injury and athletic potential. This allows the therapist and patient to have a more goal-oriented plan that is tailored to the needs of the athlete.
Performance Enhancement: A plan of care is developed for the athlete to improve all aspects of performance, including speed, agility, endurance, strength, and flexibility in order to take the athlete to the next level of performance!
IF you are an athlete and looking to maximize your performance and athletic potential, come see a skilled performance doctor of physical therapy today! Don’t wait until your impairments or limitations become injuries that knock you out of your season or limit your performance goals. Contact us at MotionRX Performance Physical Therapy to unlock your true athletic potential and meet sport-specific goals you did not even know were possible! Click the here to get started with your evaluation.