So you’ve rolled your ankle again. Use this ankle sprain rehab programme to get back to running, fast. Time lost to any injury is frustrating, but ankle sprains seem particularly bothersome. Probably because in up to 80% of cases they will reoccur. The exercises in this programme aim to prevent that from happening. The majority […]
Rehabilitation
What every injured runner needs to know.
In this post we discuss what every injured runner needs to know. Having this information will help you make better decisions about your rehabilitation and get you back running faster. Does this describe you? If you’re currently injured and not making progress with your rehab, I would guess that you’re getting a little frustrated. You […]
Ten years of bilateral Achilles tendon pain gone in ten sessions.
Ed is an endurance athlete who came to see me in the summer with bilateral Achilles tendon pain. He recently stepped out of bed without pain for the first time in 10 years. Below is his Achilles tendon rehab testimonial. “After 10 years of Achilles tendon pain I was fed up. Although I had completed […]
A single ankle sprain may change your life.
This is the conclusion of a study published in the The Journal of Sports Science and Medicine and the subject of a recent New York Times article. Researchers at The University of North Carolina subjected mice to ankle sprains of different severities and then tracked their activity levels until their deaths. Mice who had received […]
Sciatica and exercise; two principles to apply for better results.
If you’ve been diagnosed with sciatica and have been recommended exercise as a solution then this post will help you make better decisions on what works and what doesn’t and perhaps more importantly, why. Sciatica, in all its derivations, is thought to occur as a result of nerve route compression although the relationship between what […]