Back at Lee Valley, athletes are starting to return from their various warm weather training camps & there is a buzz starting to creep in as the indoor season looms. Glasgow is the first main competition on the agenda next week, with the Aviva International Series making its...
Over recent weeks & months, two topics affecting the sporting world have received increased air time as they provoke passionate discussion & debate from the players/athletes, coaches, media & fans alike.
Firstly, the issue of performance-enhancing drugs. Whilst this has been...
Well, it seems that the last blog entry seemed to hit quite a chord, so thank you for all the responses & "Likes" I have received over the last couple of days - it's good to hear that a few of you were inspired to take some action after reading it!
With most of the athletes...
So, 9 days into 2012 & how are your New Year's Resolutions going? Wavered? Broken? Or still hanging in there? I'll be honest & say that I am not really one for New Year's Resolutions as I just feel that if you identify something in yourself that you feel you can & want to...
At the beginning of last year, one of the athletes who had suffered a tibialis posterior rupture prior to the Commonwealth Games in Delhi became one of my first responsibilities as I arrived at Lee Valley. Over the course of the following four months, she worked hard followin...
As I predicted, "Born to Run" by Christopher McDougall was not a book that took much of an effort to read in just a couple of days & already I am onto reading my second book of Christmas stocking origin, "Bounce" by Matthew Syed.
So, what was my verdict of the national best...
A couple of weeks ago, James Butterfield, a recently graduated physiotherapist had mentioned that he was off to spend a few days in New York. James had spent a few days down at the HiPAC, shadowing my work with UK Athletics to get more experience of physiotherapy in the sport...
Happy Christmas to one & all! In fact for me, it's my second Christmas of the season...yesterday I spent Christmas I (or everyone else's Christmas Eve) with my mother, which I guess is rather European when all is said & done, whilst today I am spending Christmas II with my...
This morning I had breakfast with Tom Kelman, my friend & osteopath who I recruited when I was Head of Medical Services at Hearts FC. Tom came late to osteopathy after a successful career in engineering & approaches the profession with a considered enthusiasm for the theory...
The weekend is nearly over & before I get engrossed in the proceedings of the week ahead, I want to review the presentations on sleep that I was privileged enough to attend on Friday.
Johan Terpstra set the tone for the afternoon, introducing the basic concepts behind...
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