Cultivating and Motivating
The Missing Link in the Rehab Process
Forty per cent of athletes who undergo ACL reconstructive surgery do not return to pre-injury performance levels, and 65 per cent don't return to competitive sport at all. Furthermore, those who do return to play have a high risk of re-injury. Are we failing to properly prepare athletes to return to their sport?
7 Steps to Safely Return From an ACL Injury
Rehabilitation is indeed easy to do badly, and difficult to do well. Here are 7 steps you can take to return from an ACL injury safely and reduce the chances of reinjury.
The Mental Side of Recovering From an Injury
As a sports medicine physiotherapist clinician, I treat many recreational and professional athletes every day. I can't help but feel the psychological aspects of an injury are often grossly underestimated and overlooked.
The “shape of water” for rehab
A bespoke programme of hydrotherapy and gym exercise is a winning combination throughout a rehabilitation pathway.
Frogs, charley horses and basketball - a story of patellar tendinopathy
Jumper’s knee, or patellar tendinopathy is a source of anterior knee pain, characterised by pain localised to the lower pole of the knee cap, or patella. Generally, there is no pain when the person is at rest, but a regular symptom would be resting stiffness.