Elite Sport
Prevent injury. Optimise your recovery. Improve your performance.
Elite Athletes
The South Coast Rx Sports Performance team work with a number of high level athletes in order to optimise performance, recovery and prevent injury. Please see below for more details on how we deliver a gold standard Physiotherapy service for elite athletes in Portsmouth.
University of Portsmouth Sport Scholarship Programme
South Coast Rx Physiotherapy are proud to be part of the multi-disciplinary service who support 26 national and international athletes who make up the University of Portsmouth Sport Scholarship team. We work closely alongside S+C coaches, sports nutritionists and sports psychologists to deliver a gold standard service which is tailored to the needs of each athlete. Check out below how we have created a service which aims to support each of our athletes to be the best they can be.
Prevent Injury
Athletic Movement Screening
Each athlete on the prgamme is screened using the South Coast Rx Athletic Movement Screen which aims to systematically assess joint range of movement across the body, movement co-ordination and control as well as unilateral muscle strength. Screening each athlete and viewing the results in the context of their sport can help us put in place interventions to help reduce the risk of injury.
Below is an example of the report each athlete is issued
Recover Faster
Rehabilitation conditioning
Through our tried and tested method of rehabilitation condition we are able to take atheltes from the acute stages of their injury, all the way through to end-stage return to sport rehabilitation whilst ensuring they retain their fitness and strength. Our rehabilitation methodology has been utilised at the highest level of elite sport and allowed athletes to return to their sport faster whilst also ensuring they are bullet proofed from future injury.
soft tissue techniques
At South Coast Rx Physiotherapy we provide a range of sports massage techniques and have invested in the latest recovery technology to ensure that our athletes recover as quickly as possible during competition or heavy training blocks so that they can perform at their best.
TASS Accreditted provider
TASS is a Sport England funded partnership between talented athletes, delivery sites and national governing bodies of sport. We work together to bring the best out of our country’s most exciting young talents. The TASS programme helps athletes – aged 16-plus – to balance sport within the rest of their lives, be they in education, training or another form of personal development.
TASS supports more than 500 athletes in 38 Sport England sports. They are the cream of the crop having been nominated each year by their national governing body (NGB). These promising athletes are all eligible to represent England and have been identified as performing at the top of the Sport England Talent Pathway.
South Coast Rx Physiotherapy work in conjuction with the University of Portsmouth to deliver services to support young athletes to be the very best they can be.
Elite Athletes supported by South Coast Rx Physiotherapy
Lauren Steadman MBE
7 Time European Champion
3 Time World Paratriathlon Champion
2016 Paralympic Silver Medalist
2021 Paralympic Gold Medalist
SCRx are proud to have supported Lauren in her journey to gold in Tokyo 2021.
In order to optimise Lauren’s performance we completed detailed functional movement and biomechanical screening and developed a tailored prehab programme designed to prevent injury and increase performance.
In addition to this, we built a bespoke recovery protocol for Lauren which ensured she was able to hit every training session fresh and push her body to the limit when ever required.
Lauren went into the Tokyo games fitter and stronger than ever.
She blew the competition away with a dominant calculated swim, dominant bike and fast run to add a Paralympic gold medal to her illustrious career.
Michael McKinson
26-1
World Boxing Association European Welterweight Champion 2019
WBO ranked 5th Welterweight in the world.
SCRx are proud to be part of the performance team for Mikey.
We have completed in-depth movement screening as well as sports science testing to help not only prevent injury, but also optimise his training.
We have also integrated a bespoke recovery programme which utilises the latest evidence based technology to ensure that he is able to recovery in between his gruelling sparring sessions.
We supported him at his last fight in Los Angeles against Alex Martin in March 2022 which he won under very testing circumstances. Our role was to ensure Mikey’s body was in the best shape it could be come fight night.
We have no doubt that Mikey will go on to be a world champion .. watch this space!
James Newman
James originally started his athletic career as an accomplished regional CrossFitter and University level American Football player. However, since turning his attention solely to weight lifting he has excelled. James has recently qualified for the English national championships with a lifting total of 261kg’s, ranking him 7th in the country.
South Coast Rx Physiotherapy have helped James identify and address mobility limitations through our functional movement screening tool (FMS). Through video analysis we were able to identify key areas to focus on and James has subsequently improved his snatch and jerk lockout position. We have also been able to assist James with recovery optimisation, allowing him to train harder for longer.
We look forward to continuing to work with James in the future.