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You've got a season, a race or a team waiting, and you need to know when you can actually go back.
You know roughly what you've done. What you actually want to know is how long, and whether you'll make the thing you've entered.
You've been here before. Last time you were told to rest it, you rested it, you went back when it stopped hurting and it happened again about six weeks later. That's the bit you don't want to repeat.
Being told to take six weeks off by someone who doesn't understand your sport is its own kind of frustrating. Most injuries need loading, not stopping, and the skill is knowing how much and when.
Most sports injuries come down to load. Either a sudden large force the tissue couldn't absorb, or a steady accumulation that outpaced what your body could adapt to.
The second one is far more common and it's the one people miss. Tissue adapts when you load it and then let it recover. Increase the training faster than the adaptation can keep up and something gives way at the weakest point.
The interesting question is usually why that particular tissue was the weakest point. That's normally where the answer to stopping it happening again lives.
This is more than physio - its a partnership. We will be with you every step of the way and this becomes a toolkit for life to look after your body, understand what it needs and how to build lasting strength for the things you love.
First we work out what's actually going on, and why. You'll leave the first appointment with a clear understanding of the cause — not just the symptom — and we settle things down enough to start moving properly again.
Hands-on treatment where it helps, and a programme built around you — your week, your goals, what you can actually keep up. This is where strength and capacity get built back properly, and progressed as you go.
The stage that stops it coming back. You'll understand your own body and have a way of training that's practical, simple and actually enjoyable — so you stay fit and out of pain for life, doing the things you love.
Whatever brings you in, the approach is the same — find what's driving it, treat that, then work with you to build lasting strength and resilience.
