Below you will see a picture from a 2007 handout I would give for talks about running injuries and stretching. I had been anti-stretching for at least a decade. At least, I was anti-people telling others they needed to stretch to prevent injuries. I’ve also written about it here, here and here. It never made sense to me (it still doesn’t) so I enjoyed saying that the research at the time didn’t support stretching as an injury prevention method (again, it still doesn’t in runners)
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Part 1: Running is Rehab: why running is part of the “fixing”
In Lehman’s Terms: When you are injured a primary component of recovery should be the activity you love.
It can be that simple some time. Running is one of the stressors that catalyzes your healing and your preparation to return to full time running.
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From my extremely unscientific observation it appears that 67-74% of my patients have been told their glutes are inhibited. It seems to be an epidemic. I had to cancel my Runner's World subscription because the onslaught of glute inhibition articles was too depressing.
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he Kinesiopathological Model or the “Movement Quality” model might be viewed as the opposite of the biopsychosocial model of pain and injury. But I would say like most debates this ends up being a false dichotomy. I’m of the opinion that most agree that the biopsychosocial (BPS) model is relevant for pain and injury AND most therapists would also agree that biology/biomechanics are sometimes relevant for people in pain. But the true debate might fall into two related areas where people will fall somewhere on a spectrum:
Read MoreNon specific low back pain is often a diagnosis that clinicians might feel sheepish about. As if they have failed. As if acknowledging uncertainty is a bad thing that leads to bad care. This isn’t true. It is quite often the only appropriate diagnosis and is the one that is the most accurate. Other acceptable diagnoses are non-specific shoulder pain. Or non-specific knee pain. Because when we say NSLBP we are acknowledging that NO ONE knows the specific anatomical source of nociception/pain. This is not really a debatable issue
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've been triggered. I guess I'm delicate. It seems like I can't exist without being covered in the bullshit of physiotherapy, personal training and chiropractic musings on pain and injury.