A new study has shown that individuals with back pain have reduced variability in the muscles of the back when performing a repetitive lifting task. In healthy controls, activity was seen to steadily increase throughout all the erector spinae group during the task. Those with back pain however used a smaller percentage of those muscles […]
Rehabilitation
Don’t stretch it, strengthen it to reduce injury risk.
Yet another study has come to the conclusion that stretching has no effect on reducing injury risk. Researchers in Denmark reviewed 25 trials involving over 26,000 people and covering over 4000 injuries. They found that strength training had the biggest impact on reducing injury risk with the potential to cut sports injuries to less than […]
Muscle Activation Techniques for golf.
In a recent study with amateur golfers, Muscle Activation Techniques was shown to both reduce the player’s scores and their self reported fatigue levels. All 15 golfers in the study said they felt their range of movement improved following the treatments and that they were more stable in their swing. This was proved objectively in […]
Can you feel the tension?
I used to be amazed by health care professionals who would diagnose a person’s movement problems by just watching them walk across the room. Equally I would be very impressed when practitioners claimed they could feel tension in a muscle. In a recent NOI post the idea that practitioners can be so precise as to […]
Latest Muscle Activation Techniques testimonial from Injury Rehab.
Sarah came to me with some muscular system issues following an Ironman triathlon. This is her experience of Muscle Activation Techniques. For several years I have been doing at least one Ironman triathlon and a spring marathon per year. I have always been diligently stretching, doing 2 yoga sessions a week, daily foam rolling and […]