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Is it possible to avoid running injuries?

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Global Therapies: Tim during the Coniston fell race

I was having a chat with another runner recently about running, injuries and the prevalence of injuries to runners of all types. The conversation mostly focused around chronic injuries rather than acute- “ow, I’ve run into a tree” type injuries. I did a bit of digging and a bit of thinking and ended up with something that turned into this blog. Interesting stat: The biggest predictor of being injured as a runner is not to do with mileage, climb, time on feet, running surface, shoe type or anything like that; it is the answer to the question “have you been … Continue reading →

Vasovagal syncope… fainting on a phd.

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I have been taking part in a phd project that involves walking on a treadmill at 10% gradient for 90 minutes at an altitude of 4000m. I can’t really say all that much more about exactly what was going on with the tests etc, suffice to say that I had done a few tests, and had done a few stints both of walking at that altitude, a VO2 max test at altitude and a 3km time trial under the same conditions and everything was hunky dory. Then I went in for my first 90 minute session. I was fasted, like … Continue reading →

Myth Busters & Back Pain

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There have been a series of posts and posters from the CSP recently with the hashtag #mythbusters. I have a couple of posters up in my clinic and they were pointed out to me by a client today – and so I thought it might be good to do a quick blog about the 4 that I have on the wall. They all relate to back pain, as that was the original mythbuster thing. It was an attempt to get people to realise what we do and don’t know about back pain, and to give them a chance to make … Continue reading →

Need to keep rehabbing!

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As you may or may not know from the series of blogs that have gone before I’ve had a bit of an interesting year since June in terms of injury, pain and not really running. The last blog was pretty positive in that I was getting back on my feet and getting more running done. That pretty much continued over the next few weeks, with both high paced (for me) running in a few cross country races, and a few longer, but slower runs over much, much rougher terrain – like the Old Glossop Peak Raid, which was a really … Continue reading →

How does my physio know what is wrong with me?

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X-ray eyes? MRI scanners in his fingers? Intuition? Black magic? It was suggested the other day that I write a quick post on how a physio knows what is wrong with you, and how they decide on what the appropriate treatment is. Obviously this is going to differ from physio to physio when it gets down to the nitty-gritty, but by and large there are a couple of big headings under which our assessments tend to fall. Red flags The first thing a physio should be doing when you walk into the treatment is to assess for things called Red … Continue reading →

Hip Rehab – the next instalment

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Physio, rehab is not a single upward trajectory The story of my sore hip continues. People must be getting bored of hearing about this, so I won’t go into masses of detail, however, for the past few weeks, things have been going well. Three 5k runs on consecutive days got done in the middle of last week. I managed a VO2 max test the week before. This weekend, in fact yesterday, I went out and did 20k in 2:30 over some fairly rough ground. Today I hurt. It isn’t as bad as it has been, but my right adductors and Sacroiliac joint … Continue reading →