Youth Sports Injuries: Expert Care for Young Athletes in Ottawa
Tailored Treatment & Fast Recovery for Youth Sports Injuries
- Personalized care plans for each young athlete’s sports injuries.
- Expert physiotherapy and chiropractic care to speed recovery.
- Comprehensive injury prevention strategies for safe return to organized sports.
Young athletes are especially vulnerable to sports injuries. They frequently compete in multiple youth sports and organized sports at high levels while their bodies are still developing. Many injuries in young athletes are managed with non‐invasive care instead of surgery or heavy medications. Recent sports injury statistics indicate that the injury rates remain a major concern.
Why would you opt for surgery or drugs when an accurate diagnosis followed by physiotherapy and chiropractic treatment can help?
Our experts at Kent Chiro-Med Wellness Clinic(downtown Ottawa) provide personalized care for young athletes suffering from sports-related injuries.
Is Kent Chiro-Med Wellness Clinic the Right Place for Your Child's Youth Sports Injuries?
Our clinic is dedicated to treating sports-related injuries in young athletes—whether it’s an acute injury from a single event or overuse injuries from repetitive play. We focus on both lesion recovery and proactive care so that your child can safely participate in sports. Recent findings from the american academy confirm that injuries occur even in well-trained youth, underscoring our focus on prevention.
Treatment Plan Focused on Youth
It is critical to understand that child and youth sports injury care differs from adult approaches. Children’s biomechanics vary because they are still growing—both physically and mentally. Partner with us for a personalized care plan tailored to your child’s age, activity level, and overall development.
Our plans are designed to address the common injuries seen in young athletes—including both acute injuries and overuse injuries—and implement strategies to prevent injuries. This ensures your child can safely continue in their chosen sport.
Expert Practitioners
You can be confident that our sports physiotherapists and chiropractors in Ottawa provide expert assessments for sports-related injuries. Our team, experienced in treating injuries in young athletes, works closely with parents and coaches to ensure a safe recovery and a timely return to sports activities. Our approach, rooted in sports medicine, guarantees top-notch care for every young athlete.
Comprehensive Treatment Plan
Experience the benefits of our comprehensive care philosophy. Our cutting-edge services include soft tissue therapy, joint mobilizations and adjustments, medical acupuncture/IMS, progressive mobility, and sport-specific training. This sports medicine approach ensures that every young athlete receives the best possible care.
Customized Treatment
Every program is tailored to your child and their activities so that the care process fully prepares them for the demands of their chosen sport.
Prevention
Our goal is not only to help your child recover swiftly from a sports injury but also to identify any functional deficits that might lead to future issues. We design youth sports injury prevention programs that teach proper warm-up, cool-down, and safety for young athletes. By assessing the demands of their chosen sport and current training regimen, we create a plan that ensures long-term health so that injuries can be prevented and your child can safely play sports.
Experienced in Dealing with Sports' Related Injuries
From competitive athletes to weekend warriors, our approach has proven results with young athletes at every level. We help your child get back in the game—and stay there! Data shows injuries among youth are carefully monitored, allowing us to design effective rehabilitation protocols.
- Pain relief and rehabilitation
- Healing and regaining function
- Restoration of skills needed to perform daily activities
- Return to sport
- Improved athletic performance
How do we Treat Sports Injuries without Drugs?
Chiropractic Adjustments
Chiropractic adjustments offer a gentle, safe option for many sports-related injuries. Our chiropractors tailor adjustments based on age, injury history, and developmental factors, always screening for red flags to ensure each child is a candidate for safe care.
Physical therapy exercises
Proper stretching and strengthening are crucial for recovery from sports-related injuries. Our physiotherapists recommend customized exercise plans that boost range of motion, flexibility, coordination, strength, balance, and agility in every young athlete.
Three Stages of Rehabilitation in Physiotherapy Treatment
Following a diagnosis from your physiotherapist and/or chiropractor, you can begin your rehabilitation, which consists of three major stages
The first step is to understand the mechanism of pain and control it. Our therapists educate every patient, old or young, about where their pain is coming from and how to properly manage it. Our therapists may use various modalities and assistive devices to help stabilize the injured body part of the patient. The initial goal is to reduce pain and swelling and to promote healing. Therapeutic modalities available at our clinic include electrical muscle stimulation and ultrasound to help with muscular strains and sprains, as well as ligament damage from injury. Microcurrent is particularly beneficial in bone injuries such as shin splints.
The third and final stage is sports rehabilitation, which aims to help you regain your athletic abilities through the use of various treatment techniques that focus on balance, coordination, flexibility, and strength. Sport-specific exercises and neurokinetic techniques will be used to help your child learn how to correct the injured part at home and to re-learn how to move normally. In addition, he or she will learn new techniques for protecting vulnerable muscles and joints.
In addition to treating the injury, our chiropractors and physiotherapists will work together to heal the affected area to prevent further injuries. We will also teach your child what to avoid, and how to do a proper warm-up and cool-down for his or her sport, lowering the likelihood of another injury in the future.
Common Youth Sports Injuries in Canada
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Ice hockey, football, soccer, basketball, snowboarding, and dance cause the highest rates of injury among the youth.
Children between ages 5 and 14 years old are the most vulnerable age group to the playground, sports, and bicycle-related injuries
Types of Sports-Related Injuries
Acute injury
An acute injury is one of the most common types of sports injury. It occurs as a result of a single incident, such as a sprain, strain, fracture, or tear.
Overuse injury
Overuse injuries are caused by excessively repetitive movements over a long period. Frozen shoulder, tendonitis, shin splints, tennis elbow, golfer’s elbow, and Little Leaguer’s elbow are all common overuse injuries.
Reinjuries
Reinjury occurs when an athlete returns to the sport before a previous injury has healed completely. When athletes return to the game before fully recovering, they are at a much higher risk of reinjury. This puts additional strain on the injury and forces the body to compensate for the weakness, putting the athlete at greater risk of injuring another body part.
How do Chiropractic & Physiotherapy Adjustments Work for Youth Sports Injuries?
Chiropractic Treatment
The primary advantage of professional chiropractic care is its ability to manage musculoskeletal problems—such as muscle strains, joint sprains, and disc injuries—without drugs. Our holistic approach ensures that even when injuries in children occur, they are handled safely.
When a muscle or joint is injured, the body may react by tightening muscles and joints in other parts of the body. This is the body’s way of balancing and protecting itself. Persistent pain in one part of the body could be the result of a direct injury to that part of the body or a reaction to a restriction in another part of the body.
This is where a chiropractor’s holistic approach comes in handy. Athletes frequently suffer avoidable injuries or fail to respond to standard treatments because they fail to consider the big picture. Others perform below their physical potential because of musculoskeletal imbalances.
Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy focuses on alleviating muscular and joint pain through rehabilitative exercises and stretching. Techniques such as heat therapy, hydrotherapy, or ultrasound further support recovery, all grounded in proven sports med practices. They may also employ other techniques such as heat therapy, hydrotherapy, or ultrasound. Physiotherapists are typically called upon to assist patients in regaining mobility following a major accident or injury.
Don’t let your child suffer because of sports injuries. Make an appointment with one of our experts at Kent Chiro-Med Wellness Clinic for immediate pain relief and rehabilitation.
Comprehensive Injury Prevention for Young Athletes
At Kent Chiro-Med Wellness Clinic in Ottawa, we believe preventing injuries is as crucial as treating them. Our comprehensive youth sports injury prevention program offers proven ways to prevent injuries before they occur. We assess the unique risks that lead to injuries among young athletes and implement strategies focused on safety for young athletes. With customized warm-up routines, strength and conditioning exercises, and ongoing education for both athletes and parents and coaches, we ensure every young athlete is prepared for contact sports and other sports and recreational activities.
Yes. We use non-invasive methods to treat children safely. Our chiropractors are experts at knowing which children are candidates for spinal adjustments and which aren’t. We always screen for red flags prior to care.
As pre-teens enter puberty and grow taller and heavier, their risk of injury increases at age 12 for girls and at age 14 for boys. Girls are at higher risk of injury after puberty because as their body size increases, they do not develop more muscle power.
Overuse injuries and burnout can result from intense training in a single sport. To help your child avoid overuse injuries, enroll them in many sports instead of just one. Also, ascertain that your child is employing the proper technique and equipment, and teach your child to be aware of pain and fatigue. The body’s way of saying “slow down, recover, and heal” is through pain and fatigue. Sore muscles are common after starting a new activity, but pain can indicate an injury. Finally, make certain that your child receives adequate rest and nutrition.
Schedule a session with his/her practitioner to confirm whether they are ready to return to play or not. Every injury – assessed through careful assessment – has a specific profile of recovery. We assess the recovery during each appointment to ensure that the injury heals fast.
If you believe your child has a long term injury, requiring strengthening or conditioning to prevent injury, you can always seek a referral to a physiotherapist. If this is a new injury, we always recommend chiropractic care to help with pain management and limitations in ranges of motion.
Are You Ready To Live a Pain-Free Life?
To get the best possible treatment:
- Follow-up visits and physical therapy appointments.
- Follow-up the instructions for at-home exercises.
Ready for your first treatment? Don’t delay any further.