Osteopaths in professional sport

One of our registered osteopaths, Tim Allardyce recently featured on Radio 5 Live giving his osteopathic viewpoint on Arsenal footballer, Eduardo da Silva’s horrific ankle injury.

Tim Allardyce works at the Croydon Physiotherapy, Osteopathy and Sports Injury Clinic. Tim trained as both an osteopath and a physiotherapist in order to achieve a more rounded approach to treatment and to achieve greater acceptance in the world of sports medicine, where osteopathy is still poorly understood.

In his capacity as both an osteopath and physiotherapist, Tim works with a number of professional sportsmen ranging from International footballers, to World Champions, to the UK’s top track and field athletes. Tim believes osteopathy has a large place to play within professional sports and sports medicine but the lack of promotion on a National scale is preventing osteopathy from getting the recognition it so deserves.

Having previously been involved with the BBC, Tim was approached by Radio 5 Live for his comments on Eduardo’s recent injury. In the interview Tim explained how seriously the injury could affect his career in professional football.

‘Eduardo suffered a double compound facture dislocation of his left ankle...With this type of injury, the foot needs to be relocated immediately to save it and emergency surgery is completely necessary...With this degree of ligament, tendon and capsular damage, he’s going to need to do a lot of work to get himself back to the level of strength that he needs to be at to play international football. It could take around 9 months of hard work to get back to the level of fitness he needs to be able to play international football.’

There is very little talk of osteopathy within the world of professional sport even though there are a number of osteopaths now working with professional teams. This was highlighted even more in the media reporting of the above interview whereby in the majority of published articles, Tim was stated solely as a Physiotherapist.

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