Dominic came to me in January with chronic knee pain following several rugby related injuries. His goal was to be able to run again without pain. This is his experience of Muscle Activation Techniques for injury rehab. “After 3 years of chronic knee pain I was desperate for answers as to why I had barely […]
Rehabilitation
Amy Van Dyken-Rouen continues to make progress with Muscle Activation Techniques.
Six time Olympic gold medal winner Amy Van Dyken-Rouen is continuing to make progress working with Muscle Activation Techniques (MAT) founder Greg Roskopf. Van Dyken-Rouen was severely injured in a quad bike accident and told she would never walk again. In less than a year she is now standing on her own and riding a […]
Are all running injuries caused by weak glutes?
A recent study in Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise has shown that runners with Achilles tendinopathy have a timing delay in their gluteus medius and glute max muscles when compared to healthy controls. This means that those muscles don’t contract on demand to control the pelvis as the foot hits the ground. The […]
Pain changes your view of the world.
Is it possible that known threats which may cause us pain appear closer than they actually are? A new study from researchers in Australia has found this to be the case. Subjects perceived a switch that was known to cause them pain to be measurably closer than a switch that would alleviate the pain. The […]
Resistance exercise reduces symptoms of chronic Lyme Disease.
Cases of Lyme Disease are growing at an alarming rate both in the US and the UK. This has been blamed on a warming planet, among other things, which allows the ticks that carry the disease to thrive. Perhaps most worrying however, is the 40% of people who contract the disease that are left with […]