Specialized Sports Medicine Services at RxDx SAMANVAY
Insoles & Customized Orthotics
PRP Injections
Gait Analysis
Sports Massage
Hydrotherapy
Musculoskeletal Radiology
Bone Age (Skeletal Maturity) Determination
Strength and Conditioning
Sports Specific Analysis
Fitness and Wellbeing Assessment
Long Term Athletic Development
Advise on WADA
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Specialized SportsMed Services
Insoles & Customized Orthotics
Insoles
These are devices inserted into your footwear to act as shock absorbers and cushion or distribute pressure across the foot. They support your arch, heels, or toes, and help improve your foot comfort. Gel, plastic, foam, insoles are available in a variety of materials.
While choosing the right insoles, we need to consider your foot size, footwear type, body weight, activity, and the pathology you have or your requirement. For example, a patient with diabetes or arthritis has different needs compared to a jogger with posture problems.
While choosing the right insoles, we need to consider your foot size, footwear type, body weight, activity, and the pathology you have or your requirement. For example, a patient with diabetes or arthritis has different needs compared to a jogger with posture problems.
Orthotics
Orthotics are tailored to your foot shape and structure to redistribute pressure, give you relief from pain, and restore the natural functions of your foot. Customised orthotics are one of your best options to provide shock absorption, proprioception support and stability. They do not hinder normal foot or lower limb motion. Orthotics in conjunction with stretches and strengthening programme can be of great help in running, walking and sports. Podiatrists or sports medicine specialists may use 2D or 3D scanners to get an accurate model of your foot. Your biomechanics, foot injury if any, the sport type, and your footwear are taken into consideration before customising your orthotics.
Your doctor (Sports Medicine Specialist or Podiatrist) may prescribe orthotics if you have any of these conditions
Achilles Tendinopathy
Plantar Fasciitis
Sesamoiditis
Patello-Femoral Pain Syndrome
Shin Pain
Sever's Disease
Morton's Neuroma
Ankle Pain
Tired / Aching Feet
Flat Foot
Bunions
Heel Spurs
PRP Injections
Platelets, one of your blood components, play a significant role in your body’s healing process. Clotting factors within the platelets cause a concentrate of your own platelets to accelerate healing of tendons, muscles, ligaments, and joints, hence your musculoskeletal injuries.
Your doctor (Sports Medicine Physician) may prescribe Platelet-Rich Plasma Injections if you have complaints like
Joint pain
Musculoskeletal injuries (tendons, muscles, and joints)
Reduced mobility
This minimally-invasive procedure can escalate the healing process
Gait Analysis
The way you walk may say a lot about your flexibility and strength. Gait analysis is used to plan pain and injury prevention or management programmes for sports involving running. This is a very important tool to understand your lower limb alignment and detect any abnormality, if present. Our trained gait analyst studies your lower limb biomechanics and helps determine the type of footwear correction if required, and orthotics, if determined a necessity. Your walk can be improved with personalised management plan to reduce a risk of pain recurrence.
Sports Massage
The Australian Association of Massage Therapists define Massage therapy as, “Massage is the practice of influencing soft tissue by physical, functional, and in some cases psychological purposes and goals by accredited professionals. Massage involves acting on and inspiring the client’s body with pressure (structured, unstructured, stationary, and/or moving), tension, motion, or vibration done manually or with mechanical aids. Target tissues may include muscles, tendons, ligaments, skin, joints, or other connective tissue, as well as lymphatic vessels, and/or organs. Massage can be applied with the hands, fingers, elbows, forearm, and feet.”
We offer,
Acupressure
Connective Tissue Therapy
Myofascial Release
Remedial Massage
Swedish Massage
Hydrotherapy
Water cure, water therapy, aquatics, aquatic therapy, aqua therapy, these are a few of the many names of the kind of physiotherapy where the exercises customised according to the individual needs are performed in warm water.
Hydrotherapy can improve strength, fitness, and flexibility, and may be beneficial to those who require sports rehab, injury management, core strengthening, etc.
RxDx SportsMed Department is one of the very few healthcare facilities in Bengaluru who provide hydrotherapy services. Our facilities are also available for flexible hours to coaches, trainers, and physios who would like to programme hydrotherapy for their clients.
Musculoskeletal Radiology
Imaging science plays an important role in Sports Medicine. Musculoskeletal radiologists can detect and help diagnose conditions affecting an athlete’s bones, joints and soft issues in the extremities. RxDx SAMANVAY radiologists look for muscle and bone trauma, stress reaction of bones, or others abnormality related to sports.
RxDx SAMANVAY MSK Radiologists are consulted for second opinions on:
Ankle, elbow, knee, hip fractures
Muscle, Wrist, Shoulder, Spine disorders
Bone and soft tissue tumours
Sclerotic tumours
Osteolytic – ill-defined or well-defined
Diabetic foot
Fractures in Children
Arthroplasty
Meniscal and Non-Meniscal pathology
MRI traumatic changes
Non-traumatic changes
TLICS Classification of fractures
Stress fractures
Ultrasound
US-guided injection of joints
Carpal instability
ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament) Tear
Hip Labral Tear
Joint injections / lubrications
LCL (Lateral Collateral Ligament) Tear
MCL (Medial Collateral Ligament) Tear
Osteoarthritis, Osteoporosis
PCL (Posterior Cruciate Ligament) Tear
Rotator Cuff Tear
Sports hernia
Sports injuries
Tennis Elbow
Bone Age Assessment / Skeletal Maturity Determination
Knowing the correct age is significant in treating certain type childhood disorders. One of the best radiological methods to determine biological maturity level is Bone Age (BA) or Skeletal Maturity Assessment (SMA). This procedure enables physicians to better diagnose and manage growth or endocrine problems in paediatric patients.
Besides medical and forensic use of this method in determining a person’s age, the method has great application in sports. Radiology (X-ray) of hand and wrist is studied to determine the age or maturity level.
We perform bone age verifications to screen out players with skeletal maturity that matches tournament guidelines and meets eligibility criteria and help confirm age against paperwork or documents. Our radiologists use latest AI software and manual interpretation to generate the reports and take quality assurance steps to ensure error free results.
Prestigious international and national sporting bodies like FIFA, AIFF and BCCI are known to use BA/SMA.
Prestigious international and national sporting bodies like FIFA, AIFF and BCCI are known to use BA/SMA.
Strength and Conditioning
RxDx Sports and Exercise experts can help you prepare and implement individualised training goals via professional guidance. You can use our complete strength and conditioning gym and facilities to hone your skills to levels you have only aspired before, and are yet to achieve.
We provide
Strength and Power Training
Sports-specific Cardios
Conditioning for Sport and Performance
Long term development
Planning and monitoring
Strength and fitness testing
We not only push your boundaries of fitness in the scientific way, but also apply latest technology and evidence-based practices to plan your program according to your current fitness levels and strength, and your goals in mind. Our motto is, “Train Smart” over “Train Hard”.
Sports Specific Analysis
Running Assessments
A running assessment serves the purpose of performance improvement and injury risk reduction. We use video analysis to look for reasons of recurrent injuries in a sportsperson. The observations can help tailor appropriate exercises and drills to improve the technique, strength, power, speed or endurance of a runner.
Swim Stroke Analysis
Our sports physiotherapists use their knowledge and skills to perform a biomechanical analysis using above and underwater video cameras. Entry level to elite, any swimmer can benefit from this service in terms of injury prevention and performance optimisation.
Fitness and Wellbeing Assessment
Our goal is to assess your fitness level and wellbeing to understand where you stand. Accordingly, we guide you through your training programmes. Below are the evaluation methods used by the Department of Sports Medicine and Sports Science at RxDx SAMANVAY, Malleswaram.
Threshold Testing
Our Exercise Physiology is based on the idea that no two athletes necessarily have the same physiology. Understanding individual needs enable accurate calculation and application of intensity levels for training, competition and recovery. Scientific validation of an athlete’s training thresholds keeps some affecting factors in mind, like exercise history, current training program, illness/injury.
Best practice is to measure one’s training thresholds through baseline measurements and testing before planning a new programme. You will be able to optimise the efficiency of your training and take more confident steps towards your desired performance outcomes.
In a nutshell, you need to:
• Determine physiological baseline
• Develop training zones
• Monitor training adaptations
• Improve performance
• Get VO2 Max Testing
Best practice is to measure one’s training thresholds through baseline measurements and testing before planning a new programme. You will be able to optimise the efficiency of your training and take more confident steps towards your desired performance outcomes.
In a nutshell, you need to:
• Determine physiological baseline
• Develop training zones
• Monitor training adaptations
• Improve performance
• Get VO2 Max Testing
VO2Max and Anaerobic Threshold
We apply VO2 Max and anaerobic threshold testing to add specificity to the training regimes of coaches and athletes.
VO2 max is the maximal oxygen uptake or the maximum amount of oxygen you can use during intense exercise. VO2 max can establish the aerobic endurance of an athlete.
Cyclists, runners, triathletes or anybody who wants to identify baseline measures will find this test useful. The data obtained from this test can be used to establish training zones, design intervals, identify talent, monitoring and evaluation of specific training interventions.
VO2 max is the maximal oxygen uptake or the maximum amount of oxygen you can use during intense exercise. VO2 max can establish the aerobic endurance of an athlete.
Cyclists, runners, triathletes or anybody who wants to identify baseline measures will find this test useful. The data obtained from this test can be used to establish training zones, design intervals, identify talent, monitoring and evaluation of specific training interventions.
Lactate Transition Thresholds
Lactate accumulation in an athlete’s blood is affected by exercise. Lactate threshold is the point you reach when your blood lactate level is increasing faster than it can be metabolised, at a certain intensity of exercise. Lactate Threshold Training can improve high-intensity endurance performance significantly. Compared to V02 Max which is related to an athlete’s genetic potential and natural ability, the right training program can increase lactate threshold to a marked extent.
Submaximal Testing
A determination of VO2max via tests that focus on a less than maximum capacity can be useful for athletes with identified cardiovascular risk factors.
Anaerobic Power Testing
This test helps determine your maximum power output or peak power. Your muscles use non-oxygen source of energy, also called anaerobic energy at that point.
Other Requirements
Medical clearance can be provided for males >45 years and females >55 years. Sportspersons with one or more risk factor for cardiovascular disease need to take a full blood test and get a clearance before consultation.
Long Term Athletic Development
The LTAD model covers optimal training, competition and recovery schedule targeted at each stage of an athlete’s development. As the name suggests, this concept, originally developed by Dr Istvan Balyi, in the early 2000s, focuses on a systematic plan to maximise an athlete’s potential over time. The programmes cover a player’s development at every level.
The 7-stage framework of LTAD is applicable in all kind of sports and according to Canada Sport 4 Life, are:
Stage 1: Active Start
Stage 2: Fundamental
Stage 3: Learn to Train
Stage 4: Train to Train
Stage 5: Train to Compete
Stage 6: Train to Win
Stage 7: Active for Life
Advise on WADA
Doping is a major issue in the sporting world.
The experts from RxDx SAMANVAY sports medicine team can help you understand the do’s and don’ts of antidoping guidelines adhering to international, national and tournament specific standards.
The experts from RxDx SAMANVAY sports medicine team can help you understand the do’s and don’ts of antidoping guidelines adhering to international, national and tournament specific standards.
We educate our clients on the prohibited lists of substances, methods, and other criteria that may have performance enhancing effect, potentially damaging effect on health, or pose a threat against the spirit of sport, as per the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the International Testing Agency (ITA), global Anti-Doping Organisations (ADO) and National Anti-Doping Organisations (NADO).
We may also recommend examination of your urine and blood sample for forbidden substances before tournaments to track your adherence to the guidelines.
For reference, doping includes one or more of the following criteria: