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How to Keep Training With Pain and Injury

Have you wondered if you should keep training with pain and injury? Discover a few short exercise programs you can still do even if your and injured or in pain.

What is Pain?

This is an extremely loaded question! But…

According to the International Association for the Study of Pain; pain is defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage (1). However, pain can be extremely complex and multi-factorial.

Pain can be influenced by your emotional, mental and social well-being. It can also be influenced by your beliefs and perceptions of pain. Pain can be described as either acute or chronic. [Read more…]

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Hamstring Injuries: The Best Hamstrings Strength Exercises to Prevent Injury

Hamstring injuries, tears and strains are one of the most common sporting conditions. And even worse; they have one of the highest re-injury rates.

We see plenty at Sport & Spinal Physiotherapy. They occur most commonly during sports that require high speed, agility and explosive power.

In this article I will discuss hamstring tears, the best way to rehabilitate after a tear and decrease your risk of injury.

Anatomy of the hamstrings

When we talk about hamstrings we actually refer to three main muscles:

  1. Biceps Femoris: this is the most lateral (or outermost) muscle of your hamstring
  2. Semimembranosus: one of your medial (or innermost) hamstring muscles. It lies underneath:
  3. Semitendinosus: the other medial hamstring. This almost lies on top of your semimembranosus

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5 Life Hacks to Help Relieve Pelvic Girdle Pain (PGP)

What is Pelvic Girdle Pain?

Pelvic Girdle Pain used to be lumped together in diagnosis of lower back pain. However, more recently Pelvic Girdle Pain (or PGP) has become it’s own ‘injury’.  It refers to pain around the pelvis, usually focusing at your two sacroiliac joints, groin and your pubic symphysis.

The pain can sometimes refer down your legs into your thighs and also into your lower back. The most common areas are demonstrated in the diagram below. [Read more…]

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The Importance of Calf Strength and the BEST Calf Strength Exercises

Your calf is one of the most under-trained muscles in your body and is usually neglected from a strength program. Most people don’t understand or believe the importance of keeping your calf complex strong. If this is you (or you just want to know more), then read on!

The Calf Complex..

It really isn’t complex. The calf is made up of two superficial muscles: the upper gastrocnemius; and the lower soleus. These are located at the back of your lower leg and join together to become your achilles tendon and attach onto your heel.

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What is Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome and 5 Tips to help you

At Sport and Spinal Physiotherapy,  when we tell someone they have Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome (or GTPS for short) we usually get a look back mixed between confusion and disappointment. People are often concerned with the term ‘syndrome’. They think we have just diagnosed them with a permanent injury, which it is not. And usually the term ‘Greater Trochanteric Pain’ is just as confusing or concerning. “What does that even mean?”. [Read more…]

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