Hip pain can often have a gradual start, making it very hard to discover the cause. Pain could potentially be coming from muscles, hip joint, the lower back, even the pelvis itself. To discover the cause, we need to look at how it behaves over the course of a day, which will also help to plan your management and rehab.
It’s every runner’s worst nightmare – you’re smashing your training, the body has held together for months and race day is almost here. Then you feel it…a niggle that becomes a pain that you can’t ignore. Don’t panic and pull …
If you’ve been given rehab exercises in the last two decades, you’ve probably heard that your muscles have become lazy, or fell asleep, or similar. And it sounds cool enough – muscles weren’t receiving enough love so they dozed off, ready to be awoken by a magical spell (or exercise). But it’s all basically a load of BS. As much as we want to believe in muscles with personality, it just ain’t so. To explain, let me tell you a little story…
Hamstring injuries are one of the most common, poorly rehabbed muscle injuries. They have a tendency to re-tear, just when you think you are in the clear from your recent injury. But why does this happen? It seems there are 3 big factors at play.
Do you really need to rest between sets in the gym? Time is in short supply and those rest periods add up pretty quickly. Can you outrun your own physiology and skip them all together?
Is too much flexibility ever a bad thing? Yep. In fact, too much flexibility can actually significantly increase your injury risk. But there is a fix…
As the seasons change, there are different challenges facing runners. But what are the challenges and what is the best way of approaching them? Colder weather can be glorious to run in after running through summer while feeling like your …
Black toenails. A common problem among runners of all distances and terrains. We often hear about runners who get them in every race, despite bigger shoes and new socks. But before you buy another half size up in shoes, you need to find the cause.
Two of the questions we get asked by our future Pregnancy Massage clients are “What are the risks of massage during pregnancy?” and “Is pregnancy massage safe?” The simple answer is that it’s very safe, particularly in qualified hands. But …
You train for literally months, you sacrifice sleep, family time and beers on a weekend to prepare your body and your legs for the endurance required to survive 50-100+ kilometres of grueling terrain. So how, during months of training your legs and your mind, did you not think about how you were going to fuel yourself through this race?