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Whether you’re a seasoned bowler, a weekend batter, or a rising junior athlete, cricket places unique demands on your body.
At BodyMotion Physiotherapy in Mitcham, we understand those demands—and we’re here to support cricketers at all levels through personalised cricket physiotherapy, injury rehabilitation, and performance-based care.
Cricket involves repetitive and explosive movements: sprinting, throwing, bowling, crouching, and twisting. These actions can place stress on joints, muscles, and tendons—particularly in the shoulders, back, knees, hips, and forearms. Over time, poor movement patterns or insufficient recovery can lead to injuries that impact performance and long-term health.
Our experienced team provides physiotherapy for cricketers to address pain, prevent injuries, and enhance biomechanics for lasting results.
At BodyMotion, we regularly treat a wide range of cricket-related injuries, including:
Whether your pain is acute or chronic, our cricket physio team develops a personalised treatment plan to help you return to the pitch stronger than before.
We begin with a detailed assessment of your injury, medical history, movement patterns, and sport-specific demands. We’ll also identify contributing factors, such as poor posture, muscle imbalances, or inadequate warm-ups.
We use targeted manual therapy—such as joint mobilisation, soft tissue release, and dry needling—to reduce pain and restore range of motion.
Your cricket rehabilitation program includes strength and mobility exercises tailored to your position (e.g. bowler vs. batsman), level of competition, and stage of recovery.
We help correct bowling or batting technique flaws that may be contributing to your pain or injury. We may liaise with your coach for an integrated care approach.
Once you’re pain-free, we focus on building resilience through load management, warm-up education, and sport-specific strengthening to help you stay on the field longer.
Whether you’re recovering from surgery, a soft tissue injury, or simply managing overuse soreness, our cricket rehabilitation services help you return safely and confidently.
We work with:
We also provide pre-season screening and return-to-play protocols to ensure you’re match-fit and not rushing back too soon.
Repetitive spinal rotation and hyperextension can lead to lumbar stress fractures, side strains, and shoulder overload. Our physios provide spinal strengthening, workload monitoring, and thoracic mobility exercises specific to bowlers.
Long stints at the crease can create lower back, hip, and groin issues. We focus on correcting posture, strengthening the hips, and improving rotational stability to enhance endurance and alleviate discomfort.
Diving, throwing, and crouching place stress on knees, shoulders, and wrists. We help you develop joint stability, explosive control, and safe landing mechanics to perform better—and hurt less.
Young cricketers are particularly vulnerable to growth-related issues and overuse injuries. Our team takes a tailored approach to juniors, offering:
We prioritise education so young players can build a solid foundation of body awareness, strength, and good habits that last their entire sporting life.
Cricket performance isn’t just about avoiding injury—it’s about building a body that performs at its best.
Our sports physio cricket programs include:
We also help with batting shoulder mobility, bowling stride efficiency, and overall movement economy, so you’re not just recovering—you’re improving.
Located in Mitcham, we’re proud to support Melbourne’s vibrant cricket community—from juniors and club players to serious competitors.
Here’s why players choose us:
If you’re dealing with pain, recovering from injury, or looking to improve your performance, our cricket physio team is here to help. Don’t wait until a small ache becomes a major setback.
Book Your Appointment Online or contact our friendly team if you have any questions.
Cricketers often experience shoulder issues, side strains, lower back pain, knee overload, and groin injuries—especially due to repetitive movements associated with bowling, batting, and fielding.
Not at all! We treat all players, from juniors and club cricketers to professionals and weekend athletes. Our care is tailored to your level and goals.
Ideally, within 24 to 48 hours. Early physiotherapy helps reduce inflammation, prevent compensatory issues, and guide safe recovery right from the start.
Absolutely. We offer performance support programs that enhance strength, mobility, and biomechanics to improve endurance, speed, and resilience to injury.
Yes, we create clear, staged return-to-play plans to ensure you’re ready to resume training or match play safely and confidently.
A Relaxation Massage is a great way to pamper yourself, reduce stress and recharge your energy levels. Using a combination of relaxing massage strokes, usually with a lighter pressure, you can opt for a full body massage or choose the areas you would like to have massaged which can include the back, shoulders, legs, feet, arms, hands, neck, head and face.
This is a therapeutic remedial Maintenance Massage which may be recommended to you by your physiotherapist and aims to help you to maintain the results that you have achieved from your Physiotherapy treatments. This massage will be targeted to the area that you had treated by your physio, and will ensure that the muscles continue to work well together to keep you free of pain.
A remedial Therapeutic or Deep Tissue Massage is generally a deeper, firmer pressure and will target particular areas of tightness and restriction in your muscles. You will be asked to provide feedback throughout this massage to assess if the level of pressure is suitable for the area.
A remedial Sports Massage can help to ease any muscular pain post workout or after you have participated in a sporting activity. It can also be beneficial prior to a sporting event to ensure that your muscles are at their peak state, therefore assisting you to perform at your highest possible level.
