Assessment, rehabilitation and return-to-play planning for sporting injuries, at our Roxburgh Park clinic.
Most sports injuries recover. The ones that cause lasting trouble are usually the ones where someone returned to sport before the tissue was ready, and then did it again.
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The question people ask is "how many weeks?" It is the wrong question, and answering it is how reinjury happens.
Tissue heals on a rough timeline, but readiness to return depends on capacity — strength compared with the other side, power, change of direction, landing control, and the ability to do the actual demands of the sport under fatigue. Two people with the same injury and the same number of weeks can be in completely different places.
So we work to criteria instead. Specific, measured milestones that have to be met before progressing, and objective testing before return to full training and then to competition. It is slower to explain and considerably faster than a second injury.
The strongest predictor of a hamstring, ankle or shoulder injury is a previous one — largely because rehabilitation stopped at the point pain stopped, which is well before capacity returns.
Ankle and foot — lateral ankle sprains, syndesmosis injuries, Achilles tendinopathy, plantar heel pain, and the chronic instability that follows an ankle that was never properly rehabilitated.
Knee — ACL and other ligament injuries including post-surgical rehabilitation, meniscal injury, patellofemoral pain, and tendinopathy.
Hamstring, quadriceps and calf — acute strains and the running progression that follows.
Hip and groin — adductor-related and hip-related groin pain, common in football codes.
Shoulder — rotator cuff, instability and dislocation, and the throwing and overhead athlete.
Back and neck — including sport-specific loading and contact-related injury.
Bone stress injuries — shin pain and stress fractures, where load management and often nutrition are central.
Concussion — physiotherapy input for balance, neck symptoms and graded exertion, always within current return-to-sport concussion protocols and alongside medical clearance.
Get an assessment for any injury that stops you playing or training, any injury that keeps recurring, and any joint that gives way or locks.
Seek urgent medical assessment for:
See your GP if an injury is not improving after two to three weeks, if pain wakes you at night, or if there is unexplained weight loss, fever or a general feeling of being unwell alongside the injury.
Assessment takes around 45 to 60 minutes at the clinic. Wear or bring clothing that lets us look at the area, and bring the footwear you play in.
Your physiotherapist will take a detailed history of how the injury happened — the mechanism usually narrows the diagnosis more than any test does — and then assess movement, strength, joint stability and function, including watching you do the movement that hurts.
You will get a diagnosis in plain language, an explanation of what is actually injured, a treatment and loading plan, and the criteria you need to meet before each stage of return. Where imaging or a sports physician opinion is warranted, we arrange it rather than treating around uncertainty.
On hands-on treatment: manual therapy, taping and soft tissue work have a place for symptom relief and to allow loading to progress. They are not the treatment. Progressive loading is what changes tissue capacity, and any program built mainly around passive treatment is unlikely to get you back reliably.
Our clinic is at Roxburgh Park, serving Craigieburn, Greenvale, Meadow Heights, Broadmeadows, Westmeadows, Attwood, Gladstone Park, Campbellfield, Mickleham, Kalkallo, Donnybrook, Epping, Wollert, Sunbury, Glenroy, Pascoe Vale, Fawkner, Coburg and the surrounding corridor.
Home visits are available across Melbourne where travel is difficult, though clinic appointments suit sports rehabilitation better — the equipment and space are part of the treatment.
We welcome enquiries from local clubs and schools about player screening, injury management and rehabilitation pathways.
Simple Process
Call 1300 765 456 or book online. Bring your playing footwear and, if you have had imaging, the report.
Our team asks how and when the injury happened, what sport you play and at what level, whether you are currently able to train, whether there has been imaging, and when your next important fixture is — because that shapes the plan.
Detailed assessment with a clear diagnosis and explanation.
An active loading program with a home component, plus hands-on treatment where it helps you load sooner.
Staged progression, with specific measured criteria before advancing rather than a fixed calendar.
Objective testing before return to training and competition, then a maintenance program — because the highest injury risk is in the period straight after returning.
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Related: Achilles Tendon Pain · Knee Pain · Shoulder Pain · TAC Rehabilitation · Heel Pain and Plantar Fasciitis
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Make A Referral 1300 765 456 info@inonehealthcare.com.auReviewed by Aaya Hakeem, Physiotherapist, PHY0002237920. Last reviewed 13/09/2026.
This page provides general information only and is not a substitute for individual clinical advice. Any suspected concussion requires immediate removal from play and medical assessment.