Tennis competitions are excellent for improving your performance as a tennis player. How you prepare, as the tennis stars of Wimbledon know all too well, is the difference between winning and losing. Here are some top tips, from a physiotherapist’s perspective for how best to get ready for a big event. If you follow these…
If you get knee, hip, shoulder or back pain due to playing tennis, you are not alone. They are very common across all ages and standards of tennis players. Tennis is notorious for injuries in professional players. The two favourites for the men’s Wimbledon Championship this year have both been affected. Earlier this year, Roger…
In these upcoming blogs we want to give you some information about some of the most common conditions causing persistent knee pain and how to reduce symptoms and maximise how well the knee functions. These include: osteoarthritis, anterior knee pain and patella tendinopathy. Knee Osteoarthritis At ALO Physiotherapy, one of the most common knee joint…
Research published this April has shed some light on what may help to prevent people experiencing lower back pain. This study highlighted the importance of vigorous physical activity. The research also links back pain to sitting for long periods and with having a depressed mood. Fahad Hanna and his colleagues collected data from 479 staff…
1. Start with a ‘sprint’ before attempting an Ironman! An Ironman event consists of a whoppinges of swimming, 112 miles of cycling and 26.2 miles of running. For first time triathletes, this would be very difficult to achieve without risking injury and disappointment. There are many shorter sprint-distance events (eg. about 400 yards of swimming,…
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