Dear Patients, Friends, Family and loyal blogpost readers (I know I’ve been very slack with consistently keeping up with this! – I will be better in the future)
I have some really bittersweet news to tell you all.
I will be closing down our physiotherapy practice on the mid – late October 2018.
Most of you will have recognised that the way I treat patients…
Quadriceps Tendinopathy
Sometimes it’s nice to be able to see things in a different perspective, and in hindsight that’s what I appreciate the most about being on the other side!
As a physio – I’m often the one telling people to be patient, do their rehab, modify training/other activities to get back to injury free training and life!
Recently…
Hips Don’t Lie When It Comes to Hip Drop
Whether you’ve got back, pelvis, hip, knee, or lower leg pain – you may find that your pelvis and hips can give you a lot of information about weakness in your legs and how it can relate to your injury / area of pain.
You need to have good control and stability on one leg – to function efficiently (that is if you plan on …
Dealing with Tendon Irritation / Tendinitis / Tendinopathy
Whether you’ve actually been diagnosed with tendinitis or even tendinosis, the truth is that your specific pathology doesn’t really matter.
What does matter?
What matters is that you understand how your tendons work and, better yet why it takes so long to recover from tendinitis/tendinosis.
Many peop…
Are We Wasting Our Glutes By Sitting?
We all know that sitting is bad. We’ve been told by our physios, doctors and the internet. By this stage you probably have a decent idea of where your glutes are, and you’ve probably had someone tell you that you need to activate/strengthen them more.
Are we wasting our glutes due to their inactivity in our live…
Pain Behind the Knee: A Case study
So this blog post is more of a case study really about pain behind the knee – but bear with me I talk about how sometimes having a diagnosis is not the most important thing about getting better.
Pain Behind the Knee: Bakers Cyst?
I recently saw someone who’s been told by their GP that they have a Bakers Cyst (pretty much an abn…
Train your upper traps
Often people are scared to exercise their upper traps when training or doing rehab
Here are 3 Reasons to train your upper traps
I feel like a lot of people have a misconception that your upper traps are too tight because your lower traps are too weak.
Upper trap training has been demonized in the past and I think it’s really gotten a ba…