by Summit | Dec 8, 2014 | Injury Prevention
Basketball is growing in popularity on this side of the Atlantic Ocean, but is the UK aware of the incredible strain that professional NBA players are being put under? There’s been a great deal of debate about the number of games being played in the NBA each season,...
by Summit | Aug 29, 2014 | Injury Prevention
Achilles and I have something in common. Unfortunately, it’s not the super-human fighting ability or a story that went down in history; it’s the fact that we were both taken out by a blow to the heel. Achilles, for those who don’t know, was an Ancient Greek legend, a...
by Summit | Aug 28, 2014 | Rehabilitation, Injury Prevention
The Top 5 Boxing Injuries and How to Prevent Them Before we get started, We should probably refer you to last week’s post. You see, rather ironically, Andy Hosgood – a leading physiotherapist and one of our co-founders here at Summit Physio – found himself...
by Summit | Aug 14, 2014 | Injury Prevention
The start of the 2014/15 Premier League season is just a few days away, and excitement levels are off the charts. It doesn’t matter if you’re a player, manager, coach, physio or fan; it’s hard to match the sense of anticipation that we all feel as a brand new campaign...
by Summit | Jul 15, 2014 | Injury Prevention
Differential Diagnosis of Hip Pain “The key to treating hip pain is accurate diagnosis. The search for a specific diagnosis in clinical cases of pain in the hip region is guided by an understanding of the large variety of potential causes and by a...
by Summit | Jul 15, 2014 | Injury Prevention
Part 2 – Treatment, Rehab and Prevention of Tendinopathy Early stage treatment consists of load management, primarily load reduction, which will allow the tendon time to adapt, the matrix is able to resume back to its normal structure, the cells become less...
