Kate Stalker
Top ten tips to get the most out of your physio ...

Want to get the most out of your physio sessions? Here are some top tips to ensure that you do!

Top ten tips to get the most out of your physio appointment
Exercise, Health & Wellness, Physical Therapy, Physiotherapy, Sport, Sports Therapy
Kate Stalker
How to get moving and keep moving this year

There is nothing quite like a new year’s resolution to get you starting something. That’s really the easy bit, the tough bit is keeping it up. You’re likely feeling fat and unfit after a festive season of excess, and whilst it is good to indulge ourselves now and again, let’s be honest if you carry on with that trajectory, you’re likely to have more than a few kilos by this time next year, you might even pick up a few illnesses and long term issues along the way too. Remember that low fitness kills more people than smoking, diabetes and obesity combined and that physical inactivity is associated with a higher risk for severe Covid19. If it’s not just your body you are worried about Google ‘Scholarly articles about the psychological benefits of exercise’ and you will find literally thousands of articles talking about combatting stress, decrease in suicidal thoughts, improved self-esteem, academic improvements in children, improved mood and quality of life etc etc. Exercise really is medicine.

How to get moving and keep moving this year
Kate Stalker
Injury and Fatigue

This study aimed to look at injuries in rugby union over 2 seasons in both male and female amateur rugby players.

The most common injuries in men and women were concussion and ankle ligament sprains, and ACL injuries causing the most playing time lost.

THE REALLY INTERESTING BIT: 83% of non-contact injuries for women happened in the last quarter of the game…

Injury and Fatigue
Physiotherapy, Exercise, cricket, Sport
Kate Stalker
Cricket Workloads in Kids

Spinal stress fractures, Severe’s Disease, Osgood Schlatter’s Disease amongst other things are the scourge of every young cricketing team. With my background in academy cricket physio and national pathway cricket, I now find myself working in private practice based at a cricket ground and so still see a lot of young cricketers, and the stories really haven’t changed that much. School, club and county are all competing for time with the kids, and parents either feel pressured or are doing the pressurising of the kids to do all of the training and matches laid on by all of the entities. Coupled with the fact that children no longer play in seasons, a perfect storm begins to brew.

Cricket Workloads in Kids
Kate Stalker
Teenage muscle strength and flexibility

In this really interesting study in the International Journal of Sports Physiotherapy, male and female basketball players aged 14-18 were compared for overall strength, strength ratios between quads and hamstrings, and flexibility.

Teenage muscle strength and flexibility

Derby Physio

Optimal Load. Y'what what?!!

Optimal Load. Y'what what?!!

The catchphrase in physio and strength and conditioning at the moment is ‘optimal loading’. I can see you switching off already but hang with me a second as this could be the game changer for getting your injury better and preventing it from happening in the first place.

Ten things you might not have known about The Sporting Joint

1) You can book online

2) If required, you can do your rehabilitation up to three times a week in the David Lloyd gym in Derby

3) We have a specialist Women's Health Physio to help you through all your pregnancy related issues

4) We've the yummiest humbugs in the world for patient consumption (as well as a fabulous cuppa tea or coffee!)

5) Two of our physios worked at London 2012

6) Four of our therapists have worked in full time professional sport

7) We are very easily accessible: we are five minutes walk from Derby Train Station, we have a car park outside and we're fifteen minutes walk from Derby City Centre 

8) Our staff have some interesting interests! One of our physios is an archery instructor, another physio is a qualified highland dancing teacher, one of our physios has completed an artisan butchery course (not used in clinic!!) and another one of our physios competes for Great Britain at Olympic Weightlifting!!

9) We are sponsors of Derby Rugby Club, and volunteer at various sports events throughout the year for charity, making sure we give back to our local community.

10) Our logo man is called Stavros, named after Steve his creator

As an added bonus you get all this at the lowest cost of any multidisciplinary clinic in the area

 

HAPPY MONDAY! 

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