More sports injury & fitness tips when you look here: www.paulgoughphysio.com/sports-injury-clinic = = Travel tips AND Fitness tips this week. So I took a trip to the USA this week to boost my “resume” and continue my education by attending another Fitness Industry Seminar. And as I write, I’m in the very windy city ofRead More…
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Category: Sports Injuries
How To STOP *Running With Fear* (After Injury)
More fitness tips for “weekend athletes” when you look here: www.paulgoughphysio.com/sports-injury-clinic This interesting comment came in from a member of a running club in Darlington, wanting to know about how you find the confidence again to run after an injury: ==== “Paul, I liked your recent article on the Kinesiology tape. Although continuing to trainRead More…
TOP Injury and FITNESS advice for *RUNNERS* (and over 35’s)
Something to think about now that the football season is over. Unless you’re in the over 35’s league that is, and even so, you’re going go find this weeks “tips” helpful. I’m going to show you some “essential strategies for keeping fit” this summer: And if you’re a runner or planning on labelling yourself asRead More…
Achilles Tendon And Back Pain — (…& Kinesology Tape)
Word for word, this from am avid reader of my Northern Echo column who emailed in with this interesting question: = = = Paul, I wonder if you could spare the time to give me opinions and thoughts regarding the use and possible benefits of kino tape as used by top athletes in a varietyRead More…
How To Recover (Fast) From An Achilles Tendon Injury
Some help for runners aged 40+ this week. And if you’re a footballer whose season has ended and you’re looking to keep fit throughout the summer – I hope you never have to need this advice, but chances are, you will. See, something happens to Achilles tendons when you run on hard surfaces. More soRead More…
More Frustration From Knee Pain (And the GP)
Didn’t see this one coming from one of my email subscribers who this week asked: “Paul. If you’ve damaged ligaments in your knee, how long does it take to heal? Just I went to the doctors more than 6 weeks ago and he said it would take about a month. The same pain is stillRead More…
Knee pain – IT Band (Runners Knee)
After last weeks true story about my biking accident, got a flood of emails about biking injuries. Including this one: “Paul. Thanks for the tip off last week. I’m just getting going again on my bike too. Not noticed anything going with wrong with it per-se, my concern is the problem that I seem toRead More…
Insider Physio Secrets: Rafael Nadal’s Bad Back
Switching between different surfaces you train or play on causes big problems. It’s a little known secret that costs so many grassroots sports men and women “time out” from being as active as they would wish. It’s a fact. Your body will often react horrendously to the constant swapping and changing between surfaces such asRead More…
Why keep “proper” swimmers out of sight?
Out of sight out of mind. It’s a theory that applies to stuff such as cigarettes and less than decent magazines as the government and councils enforce rules that look to protect young children from the influence of both. I assume in the case of the cigarettes, that they do so because it’s been provenRead More…
The problem with having a break from sport
Having a “career break” from sport is not uncommon. I’ve done it myself. An early exit from playing cricket every Saturday afternoon in my early 20’s was forced upon due to a job with a professional football club. And as much as it’s hard to step aside, it’s actually harder to get going again whenRead More…