Sports Injury Clinic
Musculoskeletal assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation.
The University of Salford and the Sport Rehabilitation Team have operated clinical services for over 20 years, supporting the local community, British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) athletes from the university, and professional and semi-professional athletes.
This is a student-led clinic where staff supervise students in their learning; this is akin to what you would see in teaching hospitals nationwide and is also commonplace in professional sports.
We can offer an injury assessment, give guidance around your injury issue, help manage it, and offer treatment and exercise rehabilitation.
The work we do here is evidence-based, including the utilisation of modern technology to help inform our decision-making process and give you the best chance of recovery.
Musculoskeletal injury assessment
We can assess your injury using assessment techniques and technology detailed above. This will include a thorough history, physical assessment, and then discussion around the next steps.
Exercise rehabilitation programmes and on-site rehabilitation
Once you have been assessed, we can help you with a full range of exercise programmes ranging from basic ones designed to improve cardiovascular fitness and muscular strength, to targeted strength and endurance plans and work/sport-specific performance enhancement. This will be directed by the students with demonstration in our onsite gym, but you will also have access to follow-up information via our rehab guru service detailing your program with videos and pictures of your exercises.
This can also be booked as an intense on-site rehabilitation program over four days of two two-hour blocks each day.
Injury prevention and performance enhancement programmes
We provide specific programmes to ensure you are physically prepared for all the work and recreational tasks you undertake. If you’re an athlete, this could be training to compete; if you’re a soldier, then it could be training for special forces selection or deployment, or just general preparation for work or your lifestyle.
Knee clinic
Under the guidance of Dr Lee Herrington, we offer rehabilitation for patients with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), posterior cruciate ligament (PCL), meniscal injuries and patellofemoral joint complaints.
Tendon clinic
Under the guidance of Dr Lee Herrington, we offer rehabilitation for patients with Achilles, patella tendon, and hamstring tendon injuries - this might be tendinopathy or surgical repair.
Health education injury risk assessment
We can assess and profile you even in the absence of injury, providing information around aspects of your physical profile you may need to address to prevent potential future injury.
Sports massage, stretching, manual therapy, and recovery
Soft tissue treatment such as massage can help you overcome an injury and can also be used as a preventative measure.
State-of-the-art equipment
Supervised by qualified staff, our Sports Rehabilitation students use state-of-the-art equipment and techniques to provide a full range of assessments to help inform your recovery, including:
- Hand-Held Dynamometer
- Strain Gauges
- Isokinetic Dynamometers
- Force plates
- Accelerometers
- Alter-G Anti-gravity treadmill
BASRaT partner
This clinic is delivered in partnership with the British Association of Sport Rehabilitators and Trainers, the UK regulator and professional association for Sport Rehabilitators. BASRAT accredits our BSc (Hons) Sports Rehabilitation programme, meaning that the course provides students with the required content and clinical experience to become Graduate Sport Rehabilitators.
Find us
The Sports Injury Clinic is open year-round from 09:00 – 15:00 on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. We look forward to seeing you soon.
Work with us
If you’re a sports rehabilitation student studying at the University of Salford, come and work with us. You’ll get an unparalleled opportunity to work face-to-face with patients, apply your learning, and develop your professional practice.