Professional Sport Athletes

All our elite sports professionals details are treated with the strictest confidentiality, we take this very seriously. You will need to explicitly give your club written consent to be able to contact us for access to health records should they need to.

As a complex piece of finely tuned machinery the elite sports person has different needs to members of the public. Whilst they are still human, the forces and physical demands placed on their body during sport can be super human. When working with elite athletes we take our usual care and attention to detail, and make sure we are as thorough as needs be, to isolate the problem areas.

We work with corrective exercise specialists and on occasion with the coach and physiotherapist/conditioning coach to help the athlete regain their former physical balance and power. An individual 'sport specific' training programme can be put together to help with any problems from complex rehabilitation to improving strength and performance.

Humans have slow vision. The human eye can only separate a maximum of 10-12 images per second. There are even some suggestions amongst scientists that events lasting less than 0.25 seconds cannot usually be seen clearly. Although coaches are irreplaceable in analysing athlete's techniques, often the coach's eye cannot extract all the necessary details in a live sporting situation.

Video cameras create the illusion of motion by ‘tricking’ the human eye. Video cameras play 25 flashing still pictures each second. As an eye cannot separate those pictures, we get the feeling of continuous movement. The use of a video camera is a very effective tool to help you improve sporting technique. Our Quintic ™ video analysis software enables video capture at 25, 50 and 100fps. At 100fps each still image is 10ms apart, capable of capturing even the fastest of human movement. In addition to just one video camera, we have the capability of capturing up to 4 live video images, simultaneously.

More and more athletes, coaches, scientists are using video feedback as a coaching aid. Quintic ™ video can very quickly help athletes to understand the basic fundamentals of a specific movement. Providing athletes with immediate performance feedback via our video software is a very powerful analysis tool. The images are used to assist coaches in their task, as the athlete's performance can be repeated afterwards and slowed down during critical phases.

By comparing performances of previous movements, or even other athletes, our software enables you to compare video images via the computer screen. Differences between the techniques can be identified (competition vs. training) and this information made available immediately to the athlete. We find that the information gathered from this process is useful in highlighting dysfunctional areas and enhancing athletic performance.

By creating a metabolic profile of the athlete through GI (stool samples) and hormonal testing (blood biochemistry) it is possible to improve performance and help the healing process, where drugs and injections may not have helped before. Once the profile is created a suitable short, medium and long term program is implemented for the athlete to follow; this may include dietary changes and advice on nutritional supplementation.