Rehabbing the hip muscles for knee pain..?
Knee Pain… it’ a right pain in the … well, KNEE! What can we do about it? There are many causes of knee pain, but as I’ve said several times before, one of the most common is anterior knee pain, also called patellofemoral pain. Patellofemoral Pain Patellofemoral pain, or PFP is pain that originates from […]
Remedy of a Chronic Hip Flexor Problem
Last Time we looked at a case-study of a chronic hip flexor problem of a body builder- thought by him to be a groin strain and how we managed to solve the problem almost entirely by 7 weeks of core exercises. Here, I’m going to tell you what we did. The Cause The injury occurred during […]
Hip Replacement – The need for physiotherapy
Knee Muscle Strength and Visual Acuity are the Most Important Modifiable Predictors of Falls in Patients after Hip Fracture Surgery No, really..? I came across this paper: Knee Muscle Strength and Visual Acuity are the Most Important Modifiable Predictors of Falls in Patients after Hip Fracture Surgery, a 2013 publication while I was searching for […]
Personal Training, S&C & Injury
Is there a lack of communication between fitness and healthcare professionals? What do you think? A key aim of my business is to encourage and facilitate communication between fitness and healthcare professionals. Why? Well, it’s naive to think, for example that patients undergo a course of physiotherapy treatment for their injury in isolation without taking […]
Neuromuscular Training
Neuromuscular Training; the answer to all ills..? ‘Neuromuscular training’ has received a lot of attention in the media recently, especially with reference to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in the knee and how to avoid injury. What’s an ACL? See here for an article on the ACL and how you injure it. In this Get […]