“I have worked with sports injuries and particularly runners for the past 24 years. Initially I followed the 20 second stretching rules I was trained to do, and which was supported in most of the textbooks etc.. However since 1995, I worked with professional athletes who were tired of chronic recurring injuries and we decided [...]
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How long should I hold the stretch?
Sunday, October 31st, 2010Dealing with injuries, a tribute to Ashwin Willemse
Sunday, October 31st, 2010If there is one rugby-player in South Africa who have been dealt a bad hand with injuries, it was winger Ashwin Willemse. However, there was a good reason why Jake White, former coach of the South African Springbok rugby team, supported Ashwin all the way to the World Cup in 2007. Ashwin came a long [...]
Read more...Overtraining young athletes
Saturday, October 30th, 2010Since my practice focus only on sport, we see many young children (11-17 years) with sport injuries. The saddest fact though is that we see more and more of these children who already show recurring injuries due to overtraining! So how much training should a young child be allowed to do? The focus of this article is [...]
Read more...The story behind my Yellow Page Wedges
Saturday, October 30th, 2010I came accross the Yellow Page Wedges for the first time in 1990 when Jenni Rorrison (who now practice in Muizenberg, South Africa) rent a room in my practice in Durbanville to do massaging and wedges. Jenni copied the technique (which is based on applied kinesiology) from dr Ron Holder, the guru, chiropractor and applied kinesiologist, who is based in [...]
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