Stretches To Do At Your Desk
Working from home can take its toll and it’s important to change position every 30-minutes or so. You might find that your shoulders, back or neck aches from hours sitting awkwardly?
What Is Iliotibial Band Syndrome?
Iliotibial band syndrome (ITBS) is a common overuse knee injury often affecting runners and sometimes cyclists. Pain is felt on the outside part of the knee when bending, and sometimes it causes referred hip pain.
Running Injuries: Gait Analysis
As the last part of our running series, Physio Aisling is going to delve a little into the world of gait analysis, and the current thoughts on gait analysis and gait re-training in running.
Helping Hands With Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis is an auto-immune disease that causes inflammation in your joints, with the main symptoms being pain and swelling particularly in the hands and feet. It’s the second most common form of arthritis in Ireland and typically affects women more than men.
What You Can Do To Help Tight Hips
This blog looks at other things to try and help out those tight hips! Physio Neil says this is quite a personal blog for him as it’s something he’s experienced in the past, particularly during marathon training. Here are some of his additional tips that have both worked for him, as well as for his patients.
Running Injuries: Which Muscles Should Runners Strengthen?
For part 4 of our running series, we’re going to talk a bit about what muscles you should work on, and how!
Running Injuries: Risk Factors
Welcome to Part 3 of our running injury series! In this blog, Physio Aisling will talk about some of the main risk factors for developing running related injuries, and what you can do to try and prevent injury.
Running Injuries: Common Myths About Running
To follow on from last week’s video, this week Physio Aisling talks through some of the common myths we often hear about running.
How Is Frozen Shoulder Treated?
Frozen shoulder (FS), medically known as adhesive capsulitis, is a self-limiting condition characterised by an insidious, progressive onset of symptoms. The main symptoms typically being pain and significantly reduced range of motion. Although the onset of frozen shoulder is not fully understood, these symptoms are thought to occur due to a progressive inflammation and thickening of the shoulder joint capsule.
Is Crossing Your Legs Bad For Your Health Or Posture?
Sitting crossed-legged is a posture commonly adopted by many individuals who sit for long periods of time during the day. The question is, is it “bad” for you?
Top 3 Preventable Injuries We See In Clinics
Some injuries are completely unavoidable. For example, if you fracture your leg due to a really bad tackle in a sports match, there’s not a whole lot that can be done to prevent that! However, many injuries can be avoided. In this blog we will discuss the top 3 preventable injuries we see in our clinics and give you some simple tips on how to minimise your risk of suffering from them.
HIIT vs LISS: Which Workout Is For Me?
The first thing to know about HIIT or LISS training is that they are not training programmes, in that they don’t have a specific number of sets, repetitions or even specific exercises that have to be included. What they are, are different approaches to exercise.
How To Kickstart A Healthy Lifestyle
Physio Yuliya has some great tips for anyone getting started and increasing activity levels.
Everything You Need To Know About Frozen Shoulder
Frozen Shoulder (FS for short) is characterised by severe shoulder or upper arm pain with restricted shoulder movement both actively (you are doing the movement) and passively (the clinician is testing the movement).
What You Need To Know About Knee Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis of the knee is the most common form of arthritis and usually occurs most often in people aged 50 or above.
Returning To Activity And Avoiding Injury
As we look forward to gyms opening on June 7th 2021, there’s definitely an air of excitement among recreational gym users and gym bunnies alike. What’s important though, is to return safely and avoid injury. Physio Aidan has put together some top tips to help you remain safe and enjoy a return to training! […]
The Importance Of Strong Glute Muscles
To discuss the importance of the gluteal muscles we must first understand the how the gluteal muscles coordinate movement of our hip and thigh bone.
15 Things To Know About Marathon Running
As interest in marathon running continues to grow, the performance and training demands of the sport will also increase in order to maximise performance on race day.