Clinical · sport-focused · individual
02Sport-focused appointments with Garth for athletes from grassroots participation to elite competition.
The character of the work
You do not need to be a professional athlete to take your sport seriously. Garth works with people across community, school, recreational and elite sport, with the appointment shaped around the demands that matter to them.
The focus may be preparation for the sport itself, rehabilitation, injury management, recovery or a return to training and competition. Chiropractic assessment, movement, hands-on care and practical planning may all have a place.
Performance is not only physical. Where it feels relevant and you agree, Garth may use Neuro-Emotional Technique to explore emotional stress patterns or learned responses that seem to interfere with confidence, focus or performance.
Inside an appointment
This is an orientation rather than a script. The sequence and emphasis adapt to the person and the appointment.
You discuss the sport, position or event, training load, competition schedule, injury history and what you would like to work toward.
Assessment may consider movement, mobility, control, tenderness, function and the specific demands of training or competition.
Together you clarify whether the priority is performance preparation, recovery, rehabilitation, injury management or another concern.
Hands-on care and other appropriate techniques are discussed and adapted. Emotional stress patterns can also be explored when they are relevant to the goal.
You leave with a clear next step that can sit alongside training, coaching, rehabilitation or other healthcare.
Care with context
These boundaries help keep the appointment understandable, individual and appropriately scoped.
A new, severe or worsening injury may need medical assessment, imaging or another professional perspective before performance work continues.
Tell Garth about concussion, significant trauma, neurological symptoms or anything that feels outside the pattern you expected.
Chiropractic care can sit alongside coaching, strength and conditioning, physiotherapy, exercise physiology and medical care.
With your permission, clear communication between the people supporting you can help keep the plan coherent.
Neuro-Emotional Technique is offered as one way to explore stress responses that may feel relevant to performance. It is not a mental health diagnosis or a replacement for psychological care.
You can decline this part of the work and keep the appointment entirely physical and sport-focused.
Questions people bring
No. These appointments are available to people who play sport at any level, from grassroots and school sport through to elite competition.
Yes, although suitability depends on the injury. Garth can assess what sits within his scope and explain when medical review, imaging or another rehabilitation provider may be needed.
Sometimes confidence, focus or a stress response becomes part of the sporting picture. If that is relevant to you, it can be explored carefully without assuming that every performance issue is emotional.
Yes. Sport-focused chiropractic care can complement coaching and other healthcare, with your consent and clear boundaries around each person’s role.
Current booking context
Sports performance appointments with Garth are available to new and existing patients. Current options are shown during online booking.
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