Tuesday 23 June 2009

Back to football

I'm currently treating TJ Birring following his Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury (ACL). TJ is a semi-professional footballer that damaged his anterior cruciate ligament years ago and his knee has never been safe. He recently had another ACL reconstruction and his aim is to return to football safely. He spent the last four months working on his strength, control and proprioception. His left knee now is as strong as the right one and his control is excellent. His exercises included ball squats, lounges and loads of different balance exercises such as BOSU session, spring board exercises and Reebok core board sessions.For a sample of the latter click on the link below Following a couple of sessions on the G-trainer TJ is currently doing pitch sessions with me to build up his fitness, sharpness, and football specific training. We have been working on running mechanics, SAQ exercises, position specific drills and some light ball work that allows TJ to show me his tricks. Our aim is to return to training mid August and hopefully play full part next season. I'll keep you updated on his progress.

Friday 1 May 2009

The Flora London Marathon

I was among millions of people last Sunday that stayed in front of the TV watching the Flora London Marathon. I had special interest as 7 of my clients at Premier Physiotherapy Centre took part and completed the event. So congratulations go to Steve, Kelvin, Paul, Mark, Frank, Joanne and Julia completed the event raising thousands of pounds for charity in the process.

I believe all 7 of them will try and enter again next year so best of luck to all of you and hopefully stay injury free next time round.

Saturday 25 April 2009

Kick boxing injury

It's come to the end of another week at Premier Physiotherapy Centre. Today I revied a professional kick-boxer that is preparing for a fight in 4 weeks time. He came to see me 2 weeks ago with a straight forward sports hernia. The normal procedure would be to refer him to Mr Snooks (sports hernia specialist) however he was reluctant to do that as it meant he would miss the fight.

I stopped him doing sit-ups, modified his kicking technique to reduce the load on his groin and gave him a series of core control exercises similar to the ones shown on the links.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfx24wjcX4Y&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKToTnbfcOE&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W92-ZpTA10Q&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooTMUcwduLw&feature=channel

We also used the corex system to increase his core strength and control.

The last week he's been training for 6 hours every day and has no symptoms while training or spiring.

It looks like he will make it through the fight and fingers crosees will win.

Wednesday 25 March 2009

Ready for the big race

This week I saw young Joe Bamfield again. Joe is a very promising motocross rider that came to see me following a grade I hamstring strain that we manage to resolve very quickly and is now back practicing for BYMX and Youth Elite competitions.

Joe originally came to see me following a very nasty Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury (ACL) that was complicated with a series of infections. Joe worked really hard attending 3 sessions a week for 3 months before he was able to start practicing and racing again. The rehabilitation following such an injury is lengthy, hard and lonely but Joe's hard work is paying off now as he's lying up for round one of BYMX this weekend.

I hope all his hard work and fitness that he gained working with me will benefit his racing starting from this weekend.

Tuesday 10 February 2009

Complicated abdominal muscle injury

This week I discharged one of my clients with an unusual and complicated abdominal problem. He was getting pain in the right side of his rectus abdominis which is the superficial abdominal muscle. His pain was initiated by running over a few yards and was severe enough to stop the activity. This young gentleman was training hard in order to join the marines and running was an essential part of his training.
After thorough examination i discovered that his problem originated from a lack of low back control that was resulting in overloading his abdominals. We worked really hard to change his low back position, and control of his pelvis. Some of the exercises can be seen in the following links.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODbj-IZ42e8&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKToTnbfcOE&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooTMUcwduLw&feature=channel
Other exercises included lounges (straight, with resistance) plyometric work and running drills.

This gentleman is now able to run for over 5 miles at good speed without any symptoms. The rest of his exercise regime has improved as he feels his core is a lot stronger and is able to withstand a lot more load.