Sports Medicine
John West Therapy Services proudly offers a state-of-the-art health assessment and personal performance improvement service available to the community. Our fitness faculty and physicians integrate the latest fitness and clinical knowledge in sports medicine, wellness, performance assessment and training, injury prevention and rehabilitation.
Beyond therapy, we proudly work with ANYTIME Fitness, Xcel Performance & Fitness, and Eleet Fitness to continue guiding patients along the path of a healthy and pain-free lifestyle. We welcome individuals of all ages, fitness levels and athletic experience. It is our privilege to help you achieve your health and fitness goals, whether for wellness or competitive reasons.
Our sports medicine experts are equipped to handle the needs of athletes on all levels— from the weekend warriors to the professional athletes.
Specialized Sports therapy and training is offered at these clinics
Cinco Ranch
Cy-Fair
Friendswod
Kemah
Oakbend Medical Center
Sports Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation
Our approach to managing sports injuries focuses on helping you restore flexibility, strength, power and endurance. We design your rehabilitation program to be sport specific, and prepare you to return to competition, stronger and quicker. Even more important, our programs will keep you in the game.
We treat a variety of athletes including:
• Runners
• Swimmers
• Cyclists
• Golfers
• Dancers
• Walkers
• Football players
• Basketball players
• Volleyball players
Pre-Sport Conditioning and Training
We help athletes focus on their performance while preventing injuries.
Our programs for both recreational and experienced athletes include:
• Endurance training and training theory
• Flexibility and balance
• Neuromuscular control and coordination
• Strengthening
• Focusing on your body’s own signs and signals
Sports Reintegration Therapy
Following formal sports injury rehabilitation, patients may continue their rehabilitation allowing the patient to address remaining functional impairments and deficiencies. This unique program allows the patient to return to sports quicker and more safely by refining the movement strategies learned during the rehabilitation process.
Video Motion Analysis
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth a million
With the use of Dartfish, we now offer technology used by the Olympic Committee and the NBA to analyze the best athletes in sports. See things you have never seen before with side-by-side analysis of any stroke. Everything from footwork to the position of your body at any given moment can be studied and reviewed for your benefit.
If you’re an athlete looking to improve performance or get to the bottom of an injury, a digital video analysis may reveal that missing link that is too hard to catch in real time.
Coaches, we can video your athletes and provide you with frame-by-frame (in milliseconds) data for you to analyze form and faults. Using computerized digital images of the athlete; we can slow the movement and view it from many different angles. Frame by frame analysis of arm movement, trunk rotation, hip and leg alignment, foot placement, and rear foot motion will enable us to detect even minor gait deviations. Allowing you to see exactly what the athlete’s body is doing will assist with understanding of and subsequent modification of your technique.
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Dartfish Technology
To accomplish this, we use the award winning software designed by Dartfish, a company that specializes in producing digital images to bridge the gap between our observation and your perception. Dartfish’s unique SimulCam feature blends two performances, one on top of the other, into a single image. We can further analyze head, feet, and body placement of different athletes during the same movement.
Another feature called StroMotion captures sequential images (see above), allowing us to study a critical turn frame-by-frame.
With Dartfish, we can also play two images simultaneously to see how your movements have changed over time.
At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Dartfish software was used to help train 45 Olympic medalists from the U.S. and five European countries. Dartfish was also used in Athens to prepare images for several television networks, including NBC in the US.