Sports Medicine

Our specialist sports injury doctors can help get you to recover after a sports injury as well as give you the advice and treatment to help you stay injury-free in the future. Whether you are an elite athlete or someone keeping fit for personal gain, LycaHealth’s sport injury consultants and orthopaedic surgeons have years of experience in caring for athletes of all levels.

Our sports clinic enables us to offer the very latest diagnostic technologies and techniques to our patients, ensuring that you get access to effective and efficient diagnosis and treatment. Our sports injury technologies include MRI, X-Ray, CT scans, ultrasound imaging as well as much more. Combining our clinician’s years of experience with the latest technology enables us to offer you the very best service.

What is sports medicine?

Are you wondering if sports medicine is the right treatment for you? Sports medicine is an umbrella term used to group together a few different branches of healthcare to better provide for those who are suffering from or wanting to prevent sports-related injuries. Under sports medicine, there is a wide range of different areas of healthcare geared towards healing and preventing injury from exercise. We offer a range of sports treatments including physiotherapy, diagnostic imaging, osteopathy surgery, testing and shockwave therapy.

Common sports-related injuries

Any kind of sports injury, both long term and short term, can be treated by our specialist sports medicine consultants. Regardless of if you’re suffering from common injuries or one that is a bit more unique, we have the expertise in-house to treat it. We can treat:

• Achilles tendonitis: this is the overuse and inflammation of the achilles tendon, which can result in swelling, pain and/or irritation.
• Anterior knee pain: anterior means ‘front’, meaning this is a pain in the front of the knee. It could be within the kneecap itself, or from the tendons attaching the muscles to the knee bones.
• Breaks
• Concussion: concussion is a common occurrence in sports, particularly in contact sports. You do not always need to lose consciousness to suffer from a concussion.
• Golfers elbow: pain and tenderness are experienced on the inner side of your elbow which can spread into the forearm and wrist.
• Groin pull: otherwise known as a groin strain, this is common in individuals who play sports involving running and/or jumping.
• Hamstring strain: or a pulled hamstring, occurs when one or more the muscles stretches too far causing pain and discomfort.
• Knee injuries
• Peroneal tendonitis: this is caused as a result of injury to the tendons, and can result in pain on the back and/or outside of the foot
• Plantar fasciitis: this occurs when the ligament running along the bottom of the foot becomes inflamed, and can cause heel pain when walking or standing.
• Sciatica: occurs when the sciatic nerve is irritated, this causes inflammation, pain and often some numbness in the affected leg.
• Shin splints: these often occur through running, and can cause pain and tenderness in the front of the leg.
• Sprains
• Tears
• Tendonitis: otherwise known as ankle tendonitis, this is where inflamed tendons can cause ankle pain when walking, running or jumping, and are a result of overuse.
• Tennis Elbow: pain and tenderness are experienced on the inner side of your elbow which can spread into the forearm and wrist.