Sep 25, 2017 | Cycling, Neck, Running, Shoulder
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 flexibility...
Sep 22, 2017 | Cycling, Knee, Neck, Running, Sport
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 it from the...
May 10, 2017 | Body Area, Neck, Shoulder
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...
Mar 24, 2017 | Arm, Body Area, Climbing, Finger
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...
Feb 10, 2017 | Body Area, Climbing, Finger
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...
Jan 9, 2017 | Climbing, Finger
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...