Not only are we busy, but we’ve got exciting plans for growth throughout 2012 and beyond – so because of that, we’re hiring again.

We are offering a full-time, paid, permanent contract, physiotherapist position to the most suitable candidate who applies by 9th January 2012!

For further details please see here (PDF)

…and don’t worry, the blog will be back, bigger and better in the new year!

On 24th Sept 2011 Luke “BigSlow” Barnett made his professional MMA debut at CFC 11 in Brentwood, Essex.

Luke was fighting Chris Greig, a very experienced professional fighter – and defeated him with strikes in the second round. The fight was awarded “Fight of the Night” out of 13 matches on the card that evening.

Luke contacted us in the build-up to his fight asking us to design and host an 8-week pre-fight Strength & Conditioning camp -designed to prepare him for his debut, and to help his transition into a professional fighter.

The full video and interview is available next on our YouTube channel and blog – this is the quick 90-second preview of that footage.

We thought you’d appreciate seeing the fun we had lab testing one of our clients today. He’s committed himself to a 12-week training camp with us, so as usual we’re lab testing before and afterwards to show the results that he gets for his efforts.

We’ll be sticking a camera into his various training sessions along the way, so check back soon for progress updates :)

For further details please see here (PDF)

For further details please see here (PDF)

This week’s TwitQ question is all about “Runner’s Knee” — what is it? how do you know if you have it? How can you treat it? How would we assess and treat someone who has it and comes to us for help.

We gathered our Clinical Director, Performance Director and Senior Therapist together to tackle all of these questions and show you a few interesting bits and pieces.

The video talks about the pathologies surrounding the term Runner’s Knee, the clinical treatments that are used, and then go on to show some self myofascial release – before showing a couple of exercises that really help to build strength and rehabilitate the area.

Let us know your views in the comments below!

What’s your question? Tweet and/or e-mail it to us and we’ll reply with a video!

Each week we answer Sports Medicine and Strength & Conditioning questions that are tweeted and/or e-mailed to us.

This week, twitter user @rideearthtom asked us a question about elbow tendonitis.
In this reply video we talk a little about the causes of elbow pain, the problems that can happen (such as “tennis elbow”) and what the root causes are. We then teach a self-diagnostic test and bunch of stretches and exercises that can be done at home.

What’s your question? Tweet and/or email us and we’ll reply! What do you think of the video? Do you agree? Disagree? Let us know in the comments below!

Each week, we answer Sports Medicine and Strength & Conditioning questions that are tweeted and/or e-mailed to us.

This week, we were e-mailed the question: “How can you retain speed qualities whilst recovering from serious injury?”. Because this is such a nebulous topic, we figured we’d get Cris (Clinical Director) and Ed (Performance Director) together on a sofa to discuss the various factors.

We cover the question in the general case, before moving on to talk about the specific case of an elite sprinter with a hamstring injury. Along the way we discuss various rehab modalities such as water sprinting, stationary cycle rehab and electro-stimulation methods. We then briefly talk about a football player with an ankle injury and a tennis player with a shoulder injury.

What’s your opinion of what we’ve said? Let us know in the comments below! We’d love to hear your opinion.

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This week’s question comes from an Athletics coach who e-mailed us asking about Hamstring Injuries – because it is a common problem amongst sprint athletes. His question was: “What are the key biomechanical factors related to hamstring injury?”

In this video (which we’re sorry is a bit shakier than usual for the first few mins!), we talk about the risk factors for Hamstring injuries and then look at the exercises that coaches use in an an effort to reduce the risk of injury.

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At the end of last season, we were contacted by Bob Crooks, Director of Rugby at Cambridge RUFC to discuss setting up a “1st XV Player Development Group” – a multi-layered structure designed to support the rugby coaching with an LTAD strength & conditioning “academy”.

The ‘PDG’ is made up of several groups – some have the potential to be imminent 1st XV players, others are from the 2nd team, some are last year’s colts, and there are some players for whom this is their first experience of senior rugby.

Our role in providing the academy structure is to underpin the club coaches’ technical development with the movement patterns, strength and resilience required to play rugby at the highest level.

Over the course of several seasons, the intention is that players will “graduate” through the levels of the academy, from colts to regular 1st XV games – at each stage developing the required levels of physicality and technical competency.

We’ll shoot another video during pre-season!