Early treatment is the single biggest factor in how quickly you recover from a sports injury. We offer appointments within 24 hours at our Leeds city centre clinic — with a structured assessment that maps your injury before any treatment begins.
Don't train through it. "No pain, no gain" is the worst strategy for injury recovery. We've seen it too many times — continuing to load an injured structure turns a two-week problem into a three-month one. Talk to us first.
When you come in injured, we don't just work the painful area. We always start with a full assessment — mobility tests, strength tests, postural analysis, and hands-on tissue examination. Only once we understand the full picture do we design what we call your Game Plan: the specific treatments and exercises we're confident will get you back to training as fast as possible.
You'll leave your first session knowing exactly what's wrong, what we're going to do about it, and a realistic timeframe for getting you back.
Most injuries involve more than the primary site. A hamstring strain changes how you run, loading the calf and lower back differently. A shoulder injury alters arm swing and thoracic mechanics. Miss those compensations and they become tomorrow's secondary injury. The assessment catches all of it before it becomes a problem.
Mobility and strength testing, mechanism of injury, pain behaviour, postural analysis. We build a complete picture of what happened and what it's done to your body.
A specific treatment plan and exercise programme — not generic advice. You'll know exactly how many sessions to expect and what you should and shouldn't do in training meanwhile.
Deep tissue massage, trigger point therapy, myofascial release and stretching — targeted at the injury and the compensating structures around it.
Progressive exercises to restore strength and mobility. We'll clear you to return to training and tell you how to modify load to prevent re-injury.
If the injury is in the muscle, fascia, or tendon — this is our speciality. 17 years of Leeds sport has sent us most of these.
The most common running and sprinting injury in Leeds. Graded accurately at assessment — Grade I, II or III — with a specific return-to-training plan for each.
Runners · Footballers · GymCalf strains and Achilles tendinopathy are the bane of runners and court sport players. Soft tissue work combined with eccentric loading protocol gets you back on the road.
Runners · Tennis · BasketballRunner's knee, IT band syndrome, patellar tendinopathy — overuse injuries that often stem from hip weakness and poor mechanics, not the knee itself. We find the cause.
Runners · Cyclists · GymRotator cuff strain, shoulder impingement, and overhead training injuries. Shoulder mechanics are complex — the assessment maps them before any treatment begins.
Gym · Swimmers · Overhead sportsAcute lower back injury from lifting, twisting or sport. One of the most common presentations — and one of the most successfully treated with early soft tissue work.
Gym · MMA · TradespeopleQuad, groin, adductor, bicep and pectoral strains and partial tears. Proper grading and staged rehab prevents the scar tissue problems that cause chronic re-injury.
All sportsThis is a question worth answering honestly — because the right answer depends entirely on the type of injury you have.
If your assessment suggests a fracture, ligament rupture, nerve involvement, or a condition requiring physiotherapy, orthopaedics or imaging — we'll tell you straight and point you to the right specialist. We won't sell you sessions that won't help.
Muscle, fascia and tendon injuries respond fastest to hands-on soft tissue treatment. Deep tissue massage, trigger point therapy and myofascial release — applied to exactly the right structures, informed by a 17-year-refined assessment — is what we do. For this type of injury, a specialist often achieves better and faster results than a generalist physiotherapist.
17 years of treating athletes, gym-goers, runners and active professionals in Leeds — the range of soft tissue injuries we've seen is broad. If you're not sure which type of practitioner you need, call us and we'll tell you honestly.
Understanding the phases helps you understand what treatment is doing — and why rest alone isn't the answer.
The body's first response — swelling, heat, pain. Protect the area, reduce load. PRICE protocol. Early assessment to plan the next steps.
New collagen laid down at the injury site. Soft tissue work begins here — guiding repair, preventing adhesions, restoring circulation.
Scar tissue reorganises along stress lines. Progressive loading, specific exercises and continued soft tissue work ensure the repair is strong and functional.
Rebuilding the strength, speed and movement patterns required for your sport. Clearance to train with a load management plan to prevent re-injury.
"Martin offers an excellent service. Especially when I'm in MMA fight camp — I find it helps speed up my recovery massively. The man knows his stuff. Highly recommended."
"I went in with a lower back injury and Martin helped me recover from it completely. He is highly competent, very knowledgeable — showed me stretches and how not to stretch. Highly recommended."
"Hamstring strain two weeks before a half marathon. Martin assessed it properly, treated it, gave me a modified training plan, and I made the start line. Would not have got there without him."
For sports injuries, the assessment is the most important session. It's where we understand your injury, grade its severity, and build your Game Plan.
Full injury assessment: mechanism, mobility, strength, tissue examination. You leave with a clear diagnosis, a realistic prognosis, and your complete Game Plan.
Book Assessment →Targeted treatment on the assessed injury site and compensating structures. For single-area injuries or follow-up sessions in a course of treatment.
Book →Comprehensive rehab session — injury treatment plus surrounding compensatory tissue, plus in-session rehabilitation exercises. Right choice for complex injuries.
Book →Fill in the form and we'll come back to you the same day — appointments are usually available within 24 hours at our Leeds LS1 clinic, 2 minutes from the train station.
Open Monday–Friday 8am–8:30pm and Saturday 9am–4pm. No referral needed.
Book your £40 injury assessment — appointments within 24 hours at our Leeds city centre clinic.
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