Treatment Information
Swim Screening
We provide Swim Screening assessments at all Dorking and Leatherhead Head2ToePhysio clinics.
Our swim screening specialises in comprehensive evaluations of swimming specific injuries affected by flexibility, strength and power. Our physio’s have experience in screening and treating injuries, whether you swim for leisure or are training towards a national competition!
What could the Swimming Screening help?
Our Physio’s will review your training loads over the previous months, review your strength, power and movement patterns similar to the mechanics involved in your swimming strokes. All of these factors will help with your efficiency of movement that will help improve Performance and Injuries. Common Swimming Injuries may include:
- Low Back Pain (LBP)
- Shoulder impingement
- Shoulder Instability
- Rotator Cuff tendinopathy
- Bicep Tendinopathy
- Hip impingement
- Gluteal Tendinopathy
- Achilles Tendinopathy
What Do We look At in the Swimming clinic?
Our approach begins with an examination of your training history and current training loads over the previous months to address acute vs chronic training loads. From here we will perform a full clinical assessment looking at joint mobility, range of motion, strength, power and the efficiency of your mechanics.
We will review this data to determine any imbalances, whether it is joint or muscular, that can lead to overcompensations which can affect performance through poor movement patterns or contribute to an injury.
What does the Swimming Clinic Give?
Head2Toe physiotherapists feel that empowerment and motivation is an imperative aspect of rehabilitation when trying to return you back to your normal swimming schedule. Education on how your body should or could be working and how you could be training out of the water, is an important part of rehabilitation. Therefore, we aim to work closely with you and your swimming coaches, to maximise performance and help prevent and manage future injuries
After analysing your data, we will make a structured, highly personalised exercise programme to help build strength, power and flexibility to improve performance and keep you swimming pain free.
Our frequently asked questions about Swim Screening?
Common injuries include swimmer’s shoulder, rotator cuff injuries, overuse injuries (such as tendinitis), and lower back issues.
Proper warm-up, strength training for shoulder stability, maintaining good swimming technique, and incorporating rest days into your training routine can help prevent shoulder injuries.
Swimmer’s shoulder is a common overuse injury characterized by inflammation of the shoulder tendons. Treatment may involve rest, physical therapy, anti-inflammatory medications, and modifying swim technique.
Our approach begins with an examination of your training history and current training loads over the previous months to address acute vs chronic training loads. From here we will perform a full clinical assessment looking at joint mobility, range of motion, strength, power and the efficiency of your mechanics.
We will review this data to determine any imbalances, whether it is joint or muscular, that can lead to overcompensation, possibly affecting performance, through poor movement patterns, or contributing to an injury.
You’ll leave with a clear idea of what potential issues there may be, how to deal with them and a program of exercises you can carry out to help you work towards improving those issues.
