Injuries can be traumatic and are commonly known as overuse injuries. Traumatic sports injuries such as sprains and strains, the result of impacts and direct trauma and pre-existing joint and muscle imbalance can impede optimal tissue healing and return to sport. For...
Step after step taken in this beautiful healthy activity can result in a build-up of asymmetry and tissue irritation causing a number of painful conditions. Technique is every bit as important for the efficient, pain-free walking as it is for a sprinter. Who has ever...
Few people consider the physical rigours involved with playing music. Musicians spend hours in sustained positions repeating the same movements many times in a session, often day after day. Technique, postural awareness and body mechanics must be optimal to allow...
There is often a lot of emphasis placed on the equipment and setup used by cyclists, rowers, runners, golfers and other sportspeople. Whilst important, the best equipment, set up by the most experienced experts may still result in injuries or poor performance if there...
The way we move and interact with our environment can change our bodies over time resulting directly in pain or affecting our ability to recover from injuries or levels of activity not previously problematic. Body mechanics and technique are not only important for...
Posture can be considered our bodies ability to withstand gravity. Together with technique, posture is involved with sitting standing walking music computer use and a wide range of occupations many sports We all have the ability to effectively resist the load gravity...
Overuse injuries are often misinterpreted as being due only to doing too much of a particular activity. They often settle with a period of rest then return, not initially, but after a period of returning to the activity. They result from a cumulative overload of...
When you are doing something that your body has not yet become skilled at, your body may, without you realising it, recruit muscles and load your tissues in a way that is far from ideal. Inefficient body mechanics can develop in this way and although not painful at...
