Physical sports therapy is an association and combination of physical therapy and sports medicine. There are many state and private facilities, clubs, and institutions whose work object is represented by sports therapy. Their aims are to diagnose, prevent or/and treat through all their means physical, physiological, and other conditions and diseases that may occur especially in sports people due to their typical activities. In sports therapy, the most important aspect is the interdisciplinary character of the activities. Let’s Move Physical Therapy takes pride in the sports therapy activities, equipment, and specialists that they have and provide patients with.

Unfortunately, physical inactivity is growing every day, which leads to the development of a wide variety of chronic diseases.

Unfortunately, physical inactivity is growing every day, which leads to the development of a wide variety of chronic diseases and health-affecting conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, coronary artery disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, cancer, anxiety, and depression, to mention just a few. Here is where sports therapy has a say if it is used, because, besides improving a patient’s overall health, it is also beneficial and effective in treating and preventing chronic diseases. How does sports therapy accomplish so much as to prevent and treat all the above-mentioned conditions? Well, simply through the quality of the workers, procedures, and approaches as well as through the multitude of specializations that they achieve.

Recent surveys by different agencies related to sports therapy organizations such as the American College of Sports Medicine show that nearly two-thirds of the patients prefer exercising in order to maintain their health when advised by their physician and provided with the necessary resources. About 40% of American doctors emphasize the importance and usefulness of physical sports therapy to their patients but, unfortunately, they do not advise their patients well enough. It seems that 25% of the patients first see their physicians about physical sports therapy and only later go to health and fitness clubs and sites to get informed.

Exercise and physical activity play a tremendous role in preventing and treating different conditions.

Obviously, the field of physical sports therapy has a great contribution to the general state of health of the population and especially if people are informed correctly and apply the information by attending the different offers by the physical sports therapy facilities. There are such facilities whose philosophy moves around the idea that exercise and physical activity play a tremendous role in preventing and treating different conditions. They promote and try to implement the concept that Exercise is Medicine, at the same time getting involved a lot in promoting it and educating people in this direction.

If you or your child live in Las Vegas, Nevada and have suffered a sport injury please contact Let’s Move Physical Therapy at (702)620-3124