by Body Chek | Mar 16, 2015 | Blog, BodyCHEK, Injury Rehabilitation, Sports Injuries
Dynamic Posture Dynamic Posture may be defined as “the ability to maintain an optimal instantaneous axis of rotation in any combination of movement planes at any time in space”. As a simple analogy, you can think of your spine as an axis of rotation (like...
by Body Chek | Mar 9, 2015 | Blog, Injury Rehabilitation, Sports Injuries
Posture has become a quite a buzz-word in recent years. However, the understanding, importance and methods of correcting posture are often misunderstood. My favourite definition of posture is, “The position from which the musculoskeletal system functions most...
by Body Chek | Feb 12, 2015 | Blog, BodyCHEK, Injury Rehabilitation, Sports Injuries
So what is tendinitis? Tendonitis is inflammation of a tendon (tendons are connective tissues that join muscles to bones). Tendonitis can occur with repeated stretching and overloading, the cross-linking structure of the collagen fibres break apart, causing micro...
by Body Chek | Jan 15, 2015 | Blog, Injury Rehabilitation, Sports Injuries, Tennis
Last week, I was visited by a tennis coach who had a sharp pain in his left shoulder. He was unable to reach out wide to his left side and unable to get to the end of his back swing and the end of his follow through on his backhand (he has as a double-handed...
by Body Chek | Oct 27, 2014 | Blog, BodyCHEK, Sports Injuries
OK, so what’s been happening since the last blog in September. Well, quite a lot! I managed to have a couple of weekends off, went hiking in the South Downs and generally relaxed. With regards to BodyCHEK, I’ve delivered a number of assessments on clients...