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    Sports physiotherapist

    Can anyone recommend a good physiotherapist specialising in sports injuries? I have a sprained ankle.

    Someone not based in central please (too expensive)!

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    Please define "not too expensive".


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    Quote Originally Posted by Blue88:
    Can anyone recommend a good physiotherapist specialising in sports injuries? I have a sprained ankle.

    Someone not based in central please (too expensive)!

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    I use Quality Health Care Center Physio Center. They have branches in Central, CWB and other area of HK.Cost is 800 HKD/hour. Most corporate insurances cover it though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mat:
    I use Quality Health Care Center Physio Center. They have branches in Central, CWB and other area of HK.Cost is 800 HKD/hour. Most corporate insurances cover it though.
    Can you quantify "most"?

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    Quote Originally Posted by pin:
    Can you quantify "most"?
    Most I know of (ie mine, friends, wife, family). My employer uses Axa, my wife Manulife, some of my firends are with Zurich, Allianz etc...and all have used Quality Health Care or similar center and were covered fully (Axa for example) or up to 80/85%.

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    BUPA also covers this fully.


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    I am going to recommend the AFTC which is the physiotherapy centre affiliate with/attached to AASFP (the local HK and China fitness and sports educating and cerfifying body). I personally had a one-on-one injury screening session with a therapist there (this came with my membership package) and I found it very productive - unlike many prior sessions with clinical phisiotherapists in the Adventist and St Paul Hospitals.
    I have not tried any expensive sports therapists in Central so I cannot compare.

    I may be biased: I took the AASFP Personal Trainer Cerfiticate course. The AFTC phisiotherapists were giving us lectures on injury prevension, special populations and posture/flexibility assessment and exercise design. All local HK guys and I found them very, very knowledgeable - and I loved those sessions.

    AFTC:

    http://www.aftc.com.hk/index_2nd_eng.html

    Last edited by Khema; 04-10-2012 at 06:59 PM.

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    Sports Performance in Central are very good.

    I used a cheap local style physio once and they were terrible. Nothing hands on, no exercises given, just extensive use of gadgets. Not my idea of physio.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Khema:
    I am going to recommend the AFTC which is the physiotherapy centre affiliate with/attached to AASFP (the local HK and China fitness and sports educating and cerfifying body). I personally had a one-on-one injury screening session with a therapist there (this came with my membership package) and I found it very productive - unlike many prior sessions with clinical phisiotherapists in the Adventist and St Paul Hospitals.
    I have not tried any expensive sports therapists in Central so I cannot compare.

    I may be biased: I took the AASFP Personal Trainer Cerfiticate course. The AFTC phisiotherapists were giving us lectures on injury prevension, special populations and posture/flexibility assessment and exercise design. All local HK guys and I found them very, very knowledgeable - and I loved those sessions.

    AFTC:

    http://www.aftc.com.hk/index_2nd_eng.html
    Sounds potentially interesting- did you every use them following an injury? If so, how were the sessions?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mat:
    I use Quality Health Care Center Physio Center. They have branches in Central, CWB and other area of HK.Cost is 800 HKD/hour. Most corporate insurances cover it though.
    To add, sessions are one hour with 15/20 minutes warming up, then 15/20 minutes of massage/treatment, then 15/20 minutes of exercises..... Overall they do a good job. Been 15 times in total. The above will vary according to ur condition of course.

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