Physio for Golfers
Physio for golfers to beat pain and improve your performance
Whether pain is interfering with your game, you are struggling to get over niggling injuries, or you want to ensure you’re playing at your best, We offer golf-specific physiotherapy that delivers tangible results.
Don’t let anyone tell you that golf isn’t a physically demanding sport! Long periods of standing are followed by fast and powerful movements when you hit the ball. You often need to walk long distances, perhaps carrying a heavy bag of clubs. It’s actually not so surprising that our bodies complain about this on occasion.
As a specialist physio for golfers, I help you to overcome any issues, so that you can achieve rapid and lasting relief from your pain, hit the ball further and play more consistently.
Physio for golfers dealing with pain
From lower back pain to golfer’s elbow, when pain flares it can have a big impact on your game, limiting your movements or even stopping you playing altogether.
While this can be both worrying and frustrating, the good news is that pain is not automatically a sign of a serious problem or injury. It also doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy golf anymore. In fact, staying as active as possible is often an important part of the recovery process.
The key is to understand the different factors that may be contributing to your pain. How you manage your lifestyle, how our bodies and minds work, and how well conditioned you are for golf can all play a part in the pain you are feeling.
Unlike traditional physiotherapy, we don’t use treatments such as manipulation or massage, which are only able to offer short-term relief.
Instead, we listen carefully to your experiences and observe the way you move during normal activities, and specifically during golfing actions, to get to the root causes of your pain and the factors exacerbating this.
We then devise a programme tailored specifically to you, so that you can make effective changes to beat your pain and get back to playing golf comfortably.
Physio for golfers who want to improve their game
You don’t need to be in pain to benefit from physiotherapy as a golfer. From hitting the ball further to playing consistently, technique is only one part of the story. It doesn’t matter how much work you’ve been doing on your game, your natural patterns of movements can still limit your success.
Alongside this, your thoughts and learned behaviours are hugely powerful. Whether you are conscious of it or not, the way you think about your physical ability influences how you move and hold your body, which will affect how you play.
We work with you to identify how these elements may be impacting your game. We assess your movements and golf swing, paying attention to:
- Range of movement
- Fluidity of movement
- Co-ordination
- Balance
- Power
This then allows us to create a bespoke plan for you, to target and retrain your specific movement patterns and thought processes for the results you want.
An Exeter-based physio for golfers – with international experience
Having worked as a European PGA Tour physiotherapist between 2000-2005, I have a great deal of experience offering specialist physio for golfers. As well as dealing with the full range of golf-related injuries, I have helped clients to improve performance and maintain optimum fitness for the demands of golf. These clients have included top golfers such as Ballesteros, Clarke, Westwood, Faldo, Donald, Poulter, Rose, Casey, Molinari brothers, Cabrera, Jimenez, and Olazabal.
Of course, you don’t need to be playing at a professional level to benefit from our experience! We offer physio for golfers of all abilities, focusing on the latest science and research for longer-lasting results that require less treatment.
If you’re working with your golf pro, we can combine our approaches to achieve the best improvement for you. We offer sessions at our Exeter and Truro clinics as well as online consultations for those elsewhere in Devon or Cornwall.
Stop pain getting in the way of your game and improve your performance with truly effective physio for golfers. To find out how we can help you, contact us.