Part of growing and developing as a human being involves getting outside your comfort zone to acquire new skills, and finding mentors to provide context around these new skills. Spending time around mentors is an exceptional way to learn. They can provide lessons directly through the instruction that they...
Healing Tendinopathy: How to take care of your crummy tendon tissue PART 2 - late stage. In this second of 2 articles on managing tendinopathy we’ll look at what to do when you are experiencing later (degenerative) stage problem. If your tendon pain has been around for more than 6 weeks this is likely more where...
Healing Tendinopathy: How to take care of your crummy tendon tissue PART 1 - early stage. Tendinopathy is a damaged state of tendon tissue that manifests in pain during activity. It differs from tendonitis in that the body's normal inflammatory healing process is largely not active. In short, tendinopathy is...
Just over a week ago I ruptured my achilles tendon. The irony of being injured while a physio is not lost on me (not that this stops my friends from repeatedly pointing it out)! The consequence of this incident is that I'm in a cast over the next 6-8 weeks. I have to say, modesty be damned, that I'm quite proud of...
Ok so you have decided to participate in a running race. Fantastic! Congratulations, you are now an athlete doing what athletes do (hopefully at least), embarking on a new training protocol! You’ve probably heard the statistics circulating out there that up to 79% of running athletes -that’s you and...