When I was a student, a doctor told us a story  about a tribe in the Carribean who were all born with club feet, yet all the children and adults had normal feet. A research team went to explore and found that the grandmothers were massaging (did fascia release) the baby’s feet every day until [...]

A common problem amongst mainly big-gear cyclists is painful VMO’s -medial Quadriceps. The VMO is the small bulky muscle on the inside of your leg, just above the knee. When riding bigger gears, you use mainly the big bulky Quadricep muscle on the outside of the thigh. This muscle responds by shortening, which causes lengthening [...]

I have seen many runners in my career with joint pain, including hip, knee, or back pain, where the sole reason for their ‘injury’ is related to their mind-set on ‘how one should train’. Most of these runners are 40years and older, have busy careers with not much time to train. So whenever they do find [...]

Professional athletes all agree that it is risky to compete in the indoor season, since the camber and sharp bends of the indoor tracks, cause injuries. The same complaint comes from long-distance athletes when they are forced to train or race on the edge of tarred roads where the road runs at a camber. But [...]

You have trained hard all week and played a great game on Saturday without any real pains. Sunday is your rest day and although you feel a bit stiff and bruised, all feels well. Comes Monday, you’re back in full training and although your groin niggles a bit, you’re not too worried. Once it warms up, it [...]