PhysioWorks, physical therapist, in Huntsville Alabama, Andrew Walker suffered a calf strain while running 😢 Learn from this video why it happened, and how he rehabilitated it using blood flow restriction training (BFR), heart rate variability and a polarized approach...
Runners Need Strength Training! Or Do They?! Table of Contents Sometimes the blogs I write take quite a lot of research to do… hence, there can sometimes be quite a time between the blog posts! Longer than I would like, but I’m a human and not just buying canned...
Blood Flow Restriction Training Table of Contents Why should we lift? Living an active life requires certain levels of strength. For example, when we walk we put 3.5 x bodyweight through our calf (soleus), whereas when we run this increases to 6.5-8x bodyweight1-2. We...
Not all tendons and tendon pain should be treated the same. For example, we tend to consider Achilles tendon pain as wither insertional or mid-substance. When it is insertional we need to consider compression of the tendon against bone that occurs for example when you...
Sam’s Story: How to Know When is Safe to Return to Sport After ACL Reconstruction! ACL Injury and Reinjury – A Concern for the Parent of an Athlete Imagine for a moment that you are the mother of a talented high-school basketball player. He’s currently a...
PSA – Can common medications affect your tendons?! Recently, I saw a runner in my practice who had an MRI-confirmed muscle/tendon tear. Although this isn’t an uncommon injury for me to see, the likely cause of this runner’s injury really shouldn’t be common; but...
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