Injury Care vs. Performance Care - Bridging the Gap

Injury Care is initiated once injury and pain are experienced. The goal of injury care is to return you back to pre-injury status or better. This is when we explore not only the injury itself, but the causes of the injury and pain. The most important factors to be considered, related to your injury are:

Mechanism of injury
Repetitive movement patterns
Sustained daily postures
Previous history of injury
Biomechanics – how well you move, stabilize, and create force
Injury category – chronic vs acute

Performance Care has another purpose, entirely. Performance care is initiated once an injury has been stabilized and overcome. The concept of performance care has become an integral part of athletic performance in Olympic and professional sports. However, more and more people are making it part of their lifestyle. In a sense, we are all athletes with a goal to move and maintain our bodies the best we can.

Our health is our responsibility. Living an active healthy lifestyle will always be the best way to achieve physical health. As more and more of us make this lifestyle choice, we begin to see the benefits of performance care for improving the way we can participate in the gym, in sport, at work, and in daily life.

Performance care bridges the gap between living a more physical, active lifestyle and preventing overuse and break down. The goal of performance care is to achieve the following: