Tennis injuries - Reduce your risk!

Like many sports tennis can be a common place to get overuse injuries. With the start of the tennis season approaching it is a good time to start thinking about ways of preventing injuries throughout the Summer.

To reduce your risk of injury you should consider the rate that you increase your workload. In other words if you haven't done much exercise for the past few weeks and jump into full tennis training you are likely to overload your muscles and joints. A slow increase in workload is much less likely to result in an injury.

The other way of reducing your risk of injury is to optimize the mechanics of your serve, forehand and backhand. By getting one of our Physiotherapists to assess your technique you will not only reduce your risk of injury but potentially increase your hitting efficiency (meaning potentially more power and accuracy).