Ligament Injuries Treatment & Relief Ireland
We Treat Ligament Injuries In Dublin, Ireland
Have you been diagnosed with a ligament injury or strain?
We offer physiotherapy and chiropractic care for ligament injuries, whether from a sports injury, a long-standing problem or repetitive strain.
This page covers what can cause ligament injuries and how they may be treated.
If you’re interested in learning more about our services, please contact us.
What Causes Ligament Injuries?
Our body has many large and small ligaments, and they have a very important role. Ligaments have several functions, such as :
- Attaching bone to bone.
- Giving your joints ‘stability’.
- Assisting the body in movements like bending and straightening of joints.
- Ensuring your joints do not move too many, into extreme ranges of motion.
Our ligaments have important alarm systems or receptors in them that warn our brain that a certain movement is too far in one direction – and stop the movement so we do not get injured.
- Traumatic Ligament Injuries: However, sometimes, for example during a sporting match or during a fall, our body moves too quickly to catch a fall or to be pushed too quickly by an opponent, and the ligament is stretched too far, and partial or full-thickness tear appear. These kinds of injuries are known as traumatic ligament injuries. Injuries that occur in a single moment.
- Repetitive Strain Ligament Injuries: However, there is another kind of injury that occurs over time, days, weeks, months, and sometimes years. These kinds of ligament injuries are known as repetitive-strain ligament injuries.
A repetitive strain injury occurs when there is repetitive stress put on the ligament and slowly over time this stress causes a breakdown in the ligament – little, tiny microtears. Microtears form when the ligament cannot put up with the amount of stress, so the balance of regeneration and degeneration – to more on the degenerative side.
Stress-Related Injuries: Stress can be put ligaments by a number of things and can be physical, emotional, or psychological. The body is one system, therefore, you cannot separate mind and body, everything has a cascading or knock-on effect on everything else.
How We Help People With Ligament Injuries In Dublin, Ireland
Our treatment options are tailored to you.
Options include physiotherapy, laser therapy, joint traction and manual therapy.
Physical Therapy
Physiotherapy aims to ease pain and discomfort, improve function and help you return to your activities with confidence.
After an injury, it is important to understand why it happened before making a treatment plan to return you to sport or daily activities.
At Dublin Chiropractic & Physiotherapy we aim to provide an individualized care package for your ligament injury, which could include: manual therapy (spinal adjustments and joint mobilizations), laser therapy, and graded exercise therapy.
Laser Therapy
Laser therapy may also be used.
The evidence for it is mixed, and results vary.
Joint Traction & Spinal Decompression
Joint traction and spinal decompression may be used for some joint and back problems. The research on traction for back pain and sciatica is limited, and clinical guidelines don’t recommend it as a routine treatment. We only use it as an optional addition to an exercise-based plan, review it at the sixth visit, and stop if it isn’t helping. Decompression is generally well tolerated. Side effects are usually mild and short-lived, such as temporary soreness. It isn’t suitable for everyone — see who shouldn’t have it.
Exercise Therapy
Exercise, along with manual therapy, is an important part of treating ligament injuries. The key is finding the right exercises for your specific needs.
Some ligament injuries are more serious than others, and some need medical assessment or surgery. Physiotherapy can help with recovery.
After any kind of injury, it is important that our body has time to heal itself properly. If you are not well-informed about your injury, it can be easy to make the wrong decisions which could set back our recovery significantly.
Visit us in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin Ireland
Our physical therapy & other services extend throughout Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown including Blackrock, Cherrywood, Stillorgan, Rathfarnham, Shankill, Cabinteely, Foxrock, Clonskeagh, and Killiney.
Our office is located just outside of the center of Dun Laoghaire and is between Deansgrange and Monkstown. You can find our building entrance on Lower Mounttown Road, across from Woodland Park. We are a 30-second walk from Dublin Bus stop 2031 which is outside of Mccormick’s Pub.
Book Your Appointment Today
We hope this blog post has given you some information on why ligaments get injured and how physical therapy or chiropractic treatment may help treat them. We also hope that we have provided you with the information you need to make an informed decision about your injury, and how best to treat it.
We tailor treatment to each individual’s condition.
For more information on ligament injuries, or for advice on which treatment may suit you, book an appointment with us today.
References
[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/17453678408992332