Your injury may be preventing you from participating in sports, and even impacting your everyday life. Our expert consultants will treat your problem to help you recover as quickly as possible and get you back to enjoying your sport.

If you are suffering pain or discomfort from an injury, or a longer-term condition, you will need the most effective treatment to ensure you recover as quickly as possible. Our team - with experience across a wide range of sports - understand every person has a different goal and objective when it comes to their sporting life.

We take this and build the correct treatment plan for you, guiding our network of physiotherapists to ensure you have the very best treatment and recovery.

Our consultants are also skilled in specific areas of expertise, such as treating groin and knee (patellofemoral) problems.

Physiotherapy can be most effective when provided alongside other treatments, and our sports and exercise medicine team here includes experts in orthotics, podiatry, psychology, and surgery.

Minimise recovery times

The best and least disruptive treatment doesn’t involve surgery. However, if you do require surgery, our physiotherapists will work with you to help minimise your recovery times afterwards.

You can rest assured that:

We have access to MRI and ultrasound scanning facilities.

We can prescribe painkilling and anti-inflammatory treatments.

Our expert team will work closely with you to tailor and monitor treatment.

Following an in-depth assessment of your injury, our team will put together a complete programme to help build your recovery – and get you fit and active once again.

If necessary, we can also liaise with your own physiotherapist, or suggest one near you, to set up an ongoing treatment plan.

Our team is available to provide you with the highest standards in orthopaedic care and help you enjoy the best quality of life. To speak to us about your injury, please contact us via phone on 020 8629 1889, email info@wimbledonclinics.co.uk or use the form on this page.

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Basketball players and others who enjoy indoor sports may be at risk of vitamin D deficiency, researchers have said. Vitamin D is necessary for building and maintaining healthy bones. The body creates vitamin D from direct sunlight on the skin when outdoors, which means that if you spend a lot of time indoors you may not get enough. In a study published in the journal Nutrients, researchers at George Mason University in Virginia and the Mayo Clinic Health System Sports Medicine Research in Wisconsin assessed vitamin D status among basketball players from the university's men's and women's teams. The findings showed that the majority of the athletes had insufficient levels of vitamin D but a daily vitamin D supplement of 10,000 IU improved their status. During the 2018-2019 season, players were allocated a high dose of vitamin D3 supplement (10,000 IU), low dose (5,000 IU) or none, depending on their circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels at the start of the study. The objective was to identify the dosage of vitamin D3 supplementation required for optimal status. The researchers gathered data on each player's body composition, skin pigmentation, sun exposure, dietary intake and blood, and the participants were monitored regularly during the study. Athletes with darker skin pigmentation had a heightened risk of vitamin D insufficiency at baseline, while none of the participants with fair or very fair skin fell into the insufficient category at baseline. "Overall, our findings showed that 13 of the 20 (65%) participants were vitamin D insufficient at baseline," said Dr Margaret Jones, professor in the university's School of Kinesiology. "This result is consistent with a recent systematic review and meta-analysis wherein 56% of a total sample of 2,000 athletes residing in nine different countries including the United States had inadequate levels of vitamin D." In follow-up assessments about five months later, the greatest change was seen in the 10,000 IU group -- although only one participant reached optimal status in this group. "A daily dosage of 10,000 IU vitamin D3 supplementation mitigated the high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among collegiate basketball players but was insufficient for all to reach sufficient levels," the researchers concluded. As well as sunlight and supplements, Vitamin D is found in a small number of foods, including oily fish, red meat, egg yolks and fortified foods. https://chhs.gmu.edu/news/583586 https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/2/370..