Last year in the premier league there were 327 significant injuries sustained with an estimated 67, 025 days lost to injury in total. That averages out at 204 days lost to significant injury per player last year! And that’s professional elite level footballers, these players have access to the best surgeons, daily physio and the […]
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The Physio Lounge is celebrating our 5th birthday! 5 years ago a dream became a reality for our Director Craig Lea, who built The Physio Lounge from the ground up with the help of our wonderful staff and clients. It all began with a single clinic room and two members of staff, but with hard
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Plantar Fasciitis is one of the most common causes of heel pain that we see here at The Physio Lounge. It can be severely debilitating, preventing you from continuing with your hobbies and can even make the simplest of tasks, such as walking, hard work. So if you’re suffering with this nasty condition or training
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1. Not warming up The warm up is one of the most important parts of the workout and should be viewed as an opportunity to prime the body, improve some weaknesses and get yourself ready for the session ahead. A common theme in the gym when people are warming up is getting on the treadmill
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Running After Injury Whether you run marathons, run for sport or just like to run around the block, sadly there will be times when you’ll have to take some time away from running after injury. A return to running programme is vital to ensure you can get back to the distances you were running before
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The holiday season is fast approaching and we all know what that entails… food, drink and more food! However, in a blink of an eye Christmas is over, 5lbs have been gained and the new years resolution of getting back in shape is beckoning. Each year we see people coming to see us because they’ve
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With the Ryder Cup at Le Gold National being such a roaring success, we thought we’d do a post on the anatomy of the golf swing and offer some simple exercises to help reduce the risk of those annoying niggly injuries that can often keep you off the course. Breaking down the movement The golf
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It doesn’t matter whether you’re running, walking, standing up, jumping or even dancing, your Glutes should be controlling the movement. The Glutes are positioned within the body with a vital role of controlling movement at the hips, trunk, lower back, mid back, knees, ankles and even feet. However due to modern day working arrangements… many
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With the World Cup fully underway… we decided to stay on theme and give our football playing followers some advice and guidance into how to deal with the most common footballing injury… The hamstring tear! By December in the 2017/18 premier league season 90 players had missed time out due to a hamstring injury, but
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We assume if you’re reading this that you’re suffering or know someone struggling with hip pain. There are of course many colourful characters in the hip region who can ‘spit their dummy out’ and start giving you pain, but today we’re looking at one of the joint structures, the acetabular labrum. What is the acetabular
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