Sep 22, 2017 | Cycling, Knee, Neck, Running, Sport
Sports massage is really popular with sports people to help them recover, loosen out, reduce pain but does it actually have any scientific benefit? The answer is yes. While research on massage has been limited, more recently there is has been more focus on it from the...Mar 24, 2017 | Arm, Body Area, Climbing, Finger
You might not have the forearms of Frank McGrath, purported to have the biggest forearms in bodybuilding, but you can still have tight forearms regardless of your sport and occupation. Some recent clients with tight forearms prompted me to write a blog post on the...Feb 10, 2017 | Body Area, Climbing, Finger
In my review of climbing research, I came across a study by Vigouroux who did some interesting research on the difference in wrist and finger strength between climbers and non-climbers. As you might expect, they found that climbers have greater finger flexor capacity...Jan 9, 2017 | Climbing, Finger
I attended the BMC climbing injury symposium at the end of November 2016. Since then I’ve looked up a lot of the research on finger injuries to try put together a summary of what we know about pulley injury. The information comes from the presentations in the...Sep 30, 2016 | Knee, Running
The bad news if you are a runner in your 30’s is that you are now in the decade where you are mostly likely to get a running injury. This data came from an analysis of 2002 injured runners published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. They took note of...Sep 7, 2016 | Knee, Running
Iliotibial band pain (ITB) is the 2nd most common cause of pain in runners and the main cause of pain on the outside of the knee. Historically it was thought that the source of the pain was tightness in the ITB causing friction over a bony prominence at the knee which...