Missing time away from your sport or activity can be extremely frustrating, and finding the right person to guide you can get you back to your best faster. Finding a physiotherapist who understands your sport, what physical demands it requires, and the principles of strength & conditioning is crucial. In my humble opinion, any physiotherapist working with athletes or the active population should be active themselves, giving a sense of ‘practice what you preach’. Would you listen to a nutrition coach who never cooks, and only orders takeaway meals?

Tendons connect a muscle to a bone, and can be found from the tip of your toes, all the way to the base of your skull. They are sometimes described as linear, ‘organised’ tissues, that absorb force, and active as a link between the muscle creating the force that moves a bone or joint. When injured, these tendons can tear or become ‘disorganised’, which decreases their ability to do their job effectively.

Within the realms of physiotherapy, osteopathy, chiropractic care, and other forms of musculoskeletal therapies, acupuncture and dry needling is commonly seen as an available service. The use of these modalities often create debate on whether they work, or whether they are just a waste of money, with some placebo effects at best. Here, we will take a deep dive into the use of needles by therapists in an effort to help pain and function, and whether or not you should consider them for your issue.

You may have done your research and diagnosed yourself with plantar fasciitis, plantar fasciopathy, or plantar heel pain. But is it something else altogether? If indeed you do have plantar fasciitis, here we will discuss some features of the conditions, and some things that may help you manage this often quite debilitating injury.

If you’ve never run before, then you have probably been lucky enough to never have heard the term shin splints. However, if you are a runner or have friends that run, then you have definitely heard the term at least once, quickly followed by an exasperated ‘…and now it is painful to just walk’.

Summer is the perfect time for people to dust off the cobwebs on their Nikes, and hit the trails, tracks, and treadmills. It is also the worst time to have knee pain stop you in your tracks and keep your step count down.