Last week, I had a patient with an injury asking; “How can I come back and start training at the gym without hurting myself?”There is an easier way to answer that.It is important to practice the basic movements to reactivate the muscles before attempting to train at full rigour. Here are three easy exercises anyone canContinue Reading »
It’s all well and good to build strength, endurance and flexibility, however it’s just as important to be aware of your posture as you carry your body throughout the day. Here are two simple routines that you can do with a few checkpoints to make sure that having good posture becomes your ‘new normal’, effortlessly!Continue Reading »
Previously, we’ve looked at exercises to improve your posture.Today, we’re going to be looking more specifically at our shoulder blades. Generally, if we spend a lot of time sitting down, whether it’s driving, sitting at the desk, lazy posture on the couch, our shoulder blades tend to move around towards the front. What happens then, itContinue Reading »
Whether you have an injury – or not, often we are told to glute stretches and stretches at the gym. If there’s a way of bringing in more activities to release off the knee, it’s worth doing so. When we’re doing our normal glute warm-up, one of the muscles that comes down the inner-thigh attaches in toContinue Reading »
If you’ve been unable to fix long-standing discomfort around the areas of your back, hips or knees, this might be your answer. Today we’re talking about Neural flossing. This involves stretching the Spinal area and the sciatic nerve. Neural pain may easily be confused with lower back, knee or hamstring pain and can be identified when releasingContinue Reading »
We’ve talked about how to train yourself into good posture…. now it’s time to master holding it for longer.This week, we’re looking at posture slightly differently. We’ve talked previously about how you can help your existing posture; such as stretching the hip flexors, the thoracic windmill stretch, the pec stretch and trigger balling to loosen theContinue Reading »
In the past, we’ve shared some core exercises to help with your lower-back strength. Today, I want to show you the difference between our abdominals and our deep core stabilisers. Abdominals are usually recognised as our “six packs” (or rectus abdominis). Today, I’m going to take you through an exercise to activate your transverse abdominal area.Continue Reading »
I had a patient come in during the week and present with a sharp pain within the neck itself.The onset was that she woke up with it and ‘slept awkwardly’. While unfavourable positioning of the neck during sleep may be a common trigger for general neck pain, this may not always be the primary cause.In herContinue Reading »
Do You Spend a Lot of Time at The Computer?How about the tight shoulders, traps and headaches that come with it? Let’s fix it. I had a patient this week with pain running through the trapezius muscle – which goes from the shoulder up into the neck. She spends a lot of time at the computer withContinue Reading »
This week, we’re going to take a look at ankle mobility.In particular, dorsiflexion – which is the forward and backward bending of the foot when you’re walking. Having restricted dorsiflexion can have an affect up the back of the leg, into the knee and also into the hip and lower back areas. In particular, looking backContinue Reading »
