In this post we discuss why you can’t treat persistent running injuries and why you have you to train them. Last week I got the chance to listen to two podcasts that had been on my list for a while. The first from renowned running injury researcher Dr Rich Willy, the second from leading tendon […]
Rehabilitation
How muscle compensation impacts injury rehab results
In this post we’ll look at how muscle compensation impacts injury rehab outcomes and what you can do to prevent it. What is muscle compensation? Muscle compensation is how your central nervous system (CNS) programmes movement around weak or injured muscles. There’s nobody I’ve met who’s better at this than Ian. As is often the […]
Pain killers and footballers
Daniel Agger’s story of anti inflammatory drug use is a shocking one. The Danish defender recently spoke openly about his dependency on medication in order to continue to play with back pain. Having left Liverpool, Agger moved back to his home club of Bronby. He remembers little of the game where it all fell apart. […]
What astronauts can teach us about back pain
In this post we discuss what astronauts can teach us about back pain and the effect of zero gravity on the muscular system. If you’ve always wanted to grow a couple of inches you might consider space flight. Researchers regularly find that astronauts returning from space gain 2 inches in height. This is due to […]
Want to train like an Olympian? Why?
In this post we discuss why training like an Olympian is not a good idea for the vast majority of the population. There’s a false equivalence often made in the exercise industry between elite athletes and the exercising public. The promise of training like an Olympian is used to sell personal training and even personal […]