Strength training forms the basis of rehabilitation programmes, and quite rightly! Being able to produce force and control load has a positive impact on the treatment of many musculoskeletal injuries, as well as improving functional outcomes for patients. However, just giving a patient “strength training” – without understanding the goal and the relationship of the […]
Your spine is essentially the chain that forms the ‘backbone’ of your entire body. Without it you would be a blob of muscles, organs and soft tissue piled on the floor. Your spine commands respect because it is the pillar that supports your body, allows you to walk, stand and sit, as well as touch […]
The holiday season is a busy time for most. Nothing about our usual daily life goes away but the holidays bring an extra layer of activities and responsibilities, both real and imagined, that take up time, money and emotional energy. Even if we enjoy many aspects of the season, there may well be moments when […]
We’re told regularly that we should do more mobility training during the day but why, and how? Improving our daily mobility habits benefits our posture as joints have more space in which to move and our awareness of the world around us improves. This has a global effect on our general aches and pains, especially […]
Simply, yes. Lifting weights isn’t just a case of moving load from A to B. We have to consider the specific actions of the muscle group/target tissue during movement. Let’s consider the muscles of the rotator cuff. Their job is to decelerate the humerus during shoulder tasks, such that much of their loading comes during […]
Do you want to save money on your next visit to seventy9 Sports Therapy? We love it when our patients tell other people all about what we do and think that they should be rewarded for doing so. If you are a current patient, every time you refer a new patient to us you will […]
Does this look like how you sit at your desk? Many injuries that we see in the clinic are driven by poor daily behaviours, & the work environment is a major culprit. For example, a large portion of our office worker patient population complain of neck and/or headache symptoms. You can see the “forward chin […]
Have you done your hip flexor strength work today? Learn why hip flexor strength is important in the fight to reduce pain and improve performance.
Breathing is important and you should practice it more often… This video from @owaindoull perfectly highlights just how hard our breathing mechanism is working under exercise stress. You can also see how many times per minute we are engaging that mechanism. Important to note how his whole rib cage is expanding, rather than just pushing […]
We are often implementing hamstring rehabilitation programmes for our patients. But what if we were preventative about hamstring injuries as well? Studies have shown that, during running gait, hamstring are under large stress in the terminal swing phase (before the transition to foot contact). During this phase they are contracting eccentrically (lengthening under tension) to […]