Category Archives: sportEX dynamics
April 2013 Highlights – sportEX medicine (issue 56) and sportEX dynamics (issue 36)
Articles featured in this April’s sportEX medicine journal – the international sports injury and rehabilitation journal Chronic Pain in Sport: Treat it better by understanding how it develops by Richmond Stace, MCSP, MSC (incl. CPD/CME quiz in digital versions) Platelet-Rich … Continue reading
An Alternative Approach to Exercise Prescription: Part 2 by Matthew Palfrey, BSc,CSCS
This article is the second in a series that presents the rationale for an alternative approach to exercise prescription in the fields of physiotherapy, sports rehabilitation and general fitness training. The aim of this article is to further expand upon … Continue reading
Effective Patient Communication by Lewis Wood, MSc,BSc
Are you really listening? Do you take the time to hear and understand your patient’s story? Often a therapist will fill in the gaps with what they think was said, rather than what was actually said. This is described as … Continue reading
Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome: a case study in a national tennis player by Ron Alexander, STT (MSK)
Functional fascial taping (FFT) is a treatment approach that uses sports tape to apply tension to the skin, fascia and muscles in order to pull damaged structures back into alignment. The author of this article has pioneered and developed this … Continue reading
Facilitated Stretching: an overview by Bob McAtee RMT,CSCS,C-PT
Most manual therapists and fitness professionals agree that stretching is an important part of training for sport. Beyond sport, stretching is useful for maintaining general flexibility for daily activities and as preventive maintenance to counteract the effects of repetitive motion … Continue reading
Assisted Soft Tissue Manipulation: An introduction to using the ‘spoon’ by Dave Orton, MSc,MCSP,HPC
‘Get the spoon out’ or ‘use the butter knife’, are a couple of new phrases popping up in the clinic these days. We have been using the i-assist, a tool for applying instrument-assisted soft tissue manipulation/massage (IASTM). IASTM comes in … Continue reading
Journal Watch: This quarter’s best research from key international manual therapy research journals
April’s issue of sportEX dynamics features an overview of the following studies with sportEX “take home” messages. LEISURE TIME PHYSICAL ACTIVITY OF MODERATE TO VIGOROUS INTENSITY AND MORTALITY: A LARGE POOLED COHORT ANALYSIS. Moore SC, Patel AV, et al. PLOS … Continue reading