Physiotherapy

After working in elite Chinese Olympic weightlifting for over 7 years and witnessing the great retirement wave of 2025, which was the 15th National Games. I can’t help but think of Andy’s quote from the office, “I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you have actually left them” and not just think about how short many athletes’ careers at the top are but what a privilege it is to be able to help athletes and be with them during this short phase of t

I will briefly discuss acute injury management, and highlight that injury management philosophies and acronyms such as ICE, RICE, RICED are outdated and potentially detrimental to the recovery process regarding rest, ice and drugs (medications). The acute injury management model proposed by Dubois & Esculier (2020) primarily draws on research on lateral ankle, muscular soft-tissue, and low back injuries but can be generalised to acute musculoskeletal injuries such as ACLs.

Rational thinking and logical deduction are essential life skills that facilitate understanding, purpose, and happiness in lived human experience. They are fundamental skills required for health professionals to make reasonable, ethical and informed decisions. Yet many health and medical professionals still fail to grasp the most basic physiological truth of the human experience, thereby violating the primary ethical ethos of do no harm on a daily basis. What is this truth?

I cannot think about stress fractures of any type without considering Finestone & Milgrom (2008), who investigated various interventions over 25 years and the impact they had on the incidence of lower limb stress fractures in military recruits. Ultimately, concluding that the most effective way to reduce the incidence of lower limb stress fractures in military recruits was to ensure a minimum of 6 hours of sleep a night and reduce cumulative marching and running volume.

Ankle injuries and taping are frequently discussed, particularly given the prevalence of ankle injuries in most field sports and the widespread use of various taping methods across sports. Today, I reviewed a mix of papers that unintentionally focused primarily on the use of kinesiology tape in chronic ankle instability. This is by no means a comprehensive commentary on the use of tape in chronic ankle instability. Rather, it is a simple summary of some of the findings I revi

Three simple rules to help clinicians practice and assist patients in understanding what to expect from treatment come directly from the Functional Movement Systems group. Reset Reinforce Retrain/Reload Reset A reset is an intervention that creates the opportunity for successful movement to be experienced and is usually where manual therapists excel. This could include massage, manipulation, mobilisation, electrophysical agents, foam rolling, stretching, or any intervent

Coach 1 : “They are doing a bear crawl, right?” Coach 2: “No, they are doing a forward and back creep.” Coach 1: “We call that a bear crawl” Coach 2: “Well, it’s not a bear crawl, for one, their lumbar spine is in extension, and two bears walk, they don’t crawl” Coach 1: “Everyone calls it a bear crawl” Coach 2: “People are wrong all the time” Coach 2: – self thought “But why the hell do I call it a creep?” A conversation like this prompted me to review how and why I describ