Sports Consultancy

• Sports Science
• Medical
• Schools and Event Medical Cover
• Sports Tape and Strapping

Sports Science

• Physical testing of athletes / players against a framework of established minimum physical and skill standards specific to your sport
• Develop individual programmes designed for each athlete to help attain quick gains and get you operating at agreed minimum standards
• Analyse match and training data and ensure that training prepares the players to succeed by pushing training intensity to the levels expected in the elite match environment. This is also integral in reducing injuries.
• Aid in designing the season structure with timed interventions leading into competition phases and testing blocks
• Utilise GPS units to help assess and monitor players and inform training methods and recovery strategies as well as real-time match strategy
• Introducing video analysis synchronised with GPS technology units to identify and manage game changers such as work/rest ratios, fatigue markers, recovery markers, skill execution scores, wellness and injury etc.
• Help reinforce good nutritional strategies to aid performance, recovery and healing.
• Help develop a winning team culture and core values

Medical

• Establish an injury audit to try and reduce injuries and help identify trends causing injuries
• Help identify injury mechanisms and program these out of the training
• Use innovative techniques and rehabilitation processes to return players to play in optimum condition and using accelerated protocols to ensure that minimum playing time is lost
• Screen for imbalances, health restrictions, physiological markers which might help predict injury or reduce optimal recovery from injuries
• Help fast-track rehabilitation specific to the sport or event using GPS technology and advanced rehabilitation skills
• Teach and demonstrate techniques and strapping aids for specific injuries and injury prevention
• Mentor junior physiotherapists to ensure a minimum standard it attained within the medical team

Schools and Event Medical Cover

We provide trauma trained physiotherapists to cover your sports teams or events to ensure injuries are dealt with professionally and correctly. We can also enlist the services of Sports Medicine doctors to complement the service provided by our physiotherapists.

All our physiotherapists are Pitch side trauma trained through the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh ensuring the highest standards of care are on-site. They all have elite Rugby experience and are therefore quite used to dealing with significant trauma safely and efficiently.

We deliver presentations to students, parents and teachers on a variety of sports related subjects such as particular injuries and good practice when injured. General talks can include adolescent injuries, guidance on nutrition and supplements, drugs in sport etc.

Our aim is to help athletes, teams and organisations improve athletic performance through accurate diagnosis, advanced treatment and rehabilitation and/or through careful athlete monitoring, training and performance. Utilising GPS technology and industry standard physical and physiological testing we will establish objective markers for monitoring key performance indicators and changes therein helping you to reach your goals.

Sports Tape and strapping

We supply premium sports tapes through our sister company StrapMed Medical Supplies including, zinc oxide rigid tape, rayon cotton rigid tape, cotton EAB, hand-tearable EAB (lineout tape), K-Tape, compression tape and foam underwrap. We provide touring teams to the UK with all their tape requirements taking the pain out of travelling with such bulky items. We are able to provide samples pre-departure to ensure you are receiving the highest quality tape and that your athletes are comfortable using it. Standard sizes and a variety of colours are available.

Clients include, Fiji Rugby Union, Tonga Rugby Union, Georgia Rugby Union, Argentina Rugby Union, Brazil Rugby Union, British Army Rugby Team.

We are also partnered with StatSports ' the leading provider of GPS technology in the Northern Hemisphere. Working together to establish a client's needs we obtain bespoke quotations for you.

For more information, please visit:

• http://www.rugbyworld.com/takingpart/fitness-takingpart/shape-up-for-sevens-rugby-16726
• http://www.metrifit.com/blog/real-time-player-monitoring-used-by-over-two-thirds-of-epl-teams/#.VMAht0esV8E

For more information about our services or to make an appointment please call 01483 898307 or email info@physioboutique.co.uk