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read morePain over the kneecap – a quick summary
Common symptoms Pain over the kneecap is termed patellofemoral pain (PFP). The most common symptom is pain over or under the kneecap which can be hard to get your fingers on. People often experience pain using the stairs, going from a sitting to...
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Pain over the kneecap – a detailed review
This blog focuses on pain under or around the kneecap. It's a detailed blog about all the factors that cause the is pain and need to be addressed to get rid of the knee pain. .If you prefer a quicker read, check out my quick read post on the same topic. It...
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Massage Series Part 2: Foam rolling and self massage
Foam rolling and self massage is the second of our two part series on sports massage. The first part looked at the science behind the benefits and some techniques of sports massage. Check it out here. According to research, self-massage can help improve...
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Massage series Part 1: Does sports massage work, when is the best time to get one, deep or light massage?
Sports massage is really popular with sports people to help them recover, loosen out, reduce pain but does it actually have any scientific benefit? The answer is yes. While research on massage has been limited, more recently there is has been more focus on...
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Sports Massage with Wallaroo’s Bec Clough – Rugby World Cup
I had the absolute pleasure to work with Wallaroo Bec Clough who was over in Dublin for the Women's Rugby World Cup 2017. I provided on site sports massage to help her with pre game prep and post match recovery. It was interesting to work around existing injuries and...
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Simple ideas to relieve neck pain
Neck and shoulder pain is one of the most common complaint presenting in the clinic. In this blog I’m trying to get across some ideas on how to adjust your head position to help reduce neck pain symptoms in the most simple way I can. Simple because not everyone wants...
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Tight Forearms
You might not have the forearms of Frank McGrath, purported to have the biggest forearms in bodybuilding, but you can still have tight forearms regardless of your sport and occupation. Some recent clients with tight forearms prompted me to write a blog post on the...
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Finger and wrist strength deficits in climbers
In my review of climbing research, I came across a study by Vigouroux who did some interesting research on the difference in wrist and finger strength between climbers and non-climbers. As you might expect, they found that climbers have greater finger flexor capacity...
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To crimp or not to crimp….the risk of a finger pulley injury
I attended the BMC climbing injury symposium at the end of November 2016. Since then I’ve looked up a lot of the research on finger injuries to try put together a summary of what we know about pulley injury. The information comes from the presentations in the...
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