Sports Injury Rehab
Sports injury rehab treats sprains, strains, tendon problems and repetitive injuries in athletes from high school to professional, along with the weekend athlete. It covers the evaluation, treatment, return to sport and ways to prevent the next injury. Xcelerate Physical Therapy provides sports physical therapy in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.
Sports rehab covers acute, chronic and repetitive injuries
Sports therapy, or sports rehab, is a specialized area of physical therapy for athletes at the professional, collegiate, high school and recreational levels. An athletic injury can be sudden, like a sprain, or build up slowly, like a running injury from repeated stress. Practice includes the thorough evaluation, treatment, transition back to sport, prevention and performance programs.
Where athletes get hurt, by body part
Knee
Ligament injuries, ACL rehab and tendon problems. See knee pain.
Shoulder and elbow
Throwing and overhead injuries. See shoulder pain and elbow pain.
Hip, foot and ankle
Strains, sprains and heel and shin problems. See hip pain and foot and ankle pain.
Injuries our therapists rehabilitate
Joints and ligaments
- Postsurgical rehabilitation of the knee, shoulder, ankle, hip and spine
- Shoulder and rotator cuff injuries
- Ligament sprains
- ACL, PCL, MCL and LCL rehab
Muscles, tendons and bone
- Muscle strains
- Tendonitis and bursitis
- Post-fracture rehab
- Tennis elbow
- Overhead sports injuries such as throwing and swimming
- Running and cycling injuries
A personalized recovery process
It starts with a thorough evaluation of your condition and your personal goals, then a custom program.
Calm the injury
Control of pain and inflammation, and recovery of range of motion, with hands-on techniques, heat, ice, taping and electrical stimulation.
Rebuild
Neuromuscular retraining, core and extremity strengthening, and balance and proprioceptive activities.
Get back to your sport
Speed, endurance and power training and sport-specific retraining, such as helping pitchers recover throwing mechanics, football players with cutting, catching and backpedaling, and basketball players with jumping, shuffling and shooting.
Youth and high school athletes
Our team includes athletic trainers who cover sports at Marple Newtown High School and Paxon Hollow Middle School, so we know the demands local young athletes face. A youth sports injury is treated with the same care and with a plan that suits a growing athlete. Athletes place higher demands on muscles and joints and need sport-specific training to recover speed, power and agility. We work hand in hand with your referring physician or surgeon, and if you or your teen want to speed up recovery, we can help.
Return to sport: how we know you are ready
We move you back through stages, from daily movement to sport-specific drills, and we judge readiness by how you perform, not by the calendar. Runners and other athletes with a running injury also work on how they load and move. If you had surgery, see post-surgical rehab.
Prevention and performance
Prevention
Pre-participation evaluations, equipment advice and conditioning programs, such as ACL injury prevention, help athletes get back safely.
Performance
After a thorough evaluation of strength, coordination, flexibility and fitness, your therapist builds a training plan. See sports performance programs; looking for sports PT near me means you can call us at the clinic.
Sports injury rehab care in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania
Xcelerate Physical Therapy treats sports injury rehab at our Newtown Square clinic, 214 S. Newtown Street Road.
In Pennsylvania you can see a physical therapist without a physician’s referral, but your insurance may require one: call the number on your insurance card to check, or call us before your first visit.
Meet the people who treat you on our team page.