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Foot Mechanics – Part 3: The Back Foot

So far in this series we have looked at an overview of motions in the STJ, TCJ and MTJ. We also had a more detailed look at the Front Foot Mechanics in Gait. Part 3 will look in more detail at what is going on to create the back foot motions. First thing to note is the

3 Ways to Help with Anterior Knee Pain – Part 1

Though there are many strategies that could be employed for helping with anterior knee pain. I think there are some general strategies that can be used to help alleviate symptoms. A good diagnosis and understanding of the injury is step one. Once you have that, here are some simple strategies to get you on your

Big News for Physioblogger

I’m Starting my Masters 🙂 It’s only been about 9-10 year thinking about it!! I was just about to start applying for Masters courses when my wife and I found out we had our eldest son Andrew on the way. I guess like a lot of things, it went on hold ‘temporarily’ while we got

Hip Mobility Videos

If you’ve read last Mondays Post on the Top 3 Hip Mobility Exercises I thought it would be good to follow it up with some videos to help show the exercises and progressions. Hip Flexion To work on hip flexion: Little Bonus!!! Thought of another strategy I use a fair bit. Basically, taking the joint

Structural or Functional? – Decreased ROM

There have been lots of AHA moments in my life and career. One was when I started looking at ROM as with Structural or Functional. What I mean by this is that when you are testing a joint or movement you need to differentiate between whether what you are seeing is as a result of

Muscles – Working as Pumps or Springs?

Going back a couple of posts we talked about ‘How do we Run?‘ Super fun topic and one of the most popular posts we’ve had on the blog since I started writing again 🙂 So today I wanted to look at one of the key elements you need to know so you can begin to

First Post Back – a quick catch up!

It’s been a long time, I’ve not really written anything since my last post on phyisoblogger. I don’t actually know when that was I’ve lost it all 🙁  I hadn’t written in a long time so I decided to take the website down for a while. My host sent me a backup of the whole