Oli Surgenor Physiotherapy P.C.

06/06/2025

can’t stand it (up) anymore?!!

Sit-to-stand: The simple test that reveals how you're ageing-

The US public health agency the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has outlined the average results for different age groups. Scores which are below the average could indicate a risk for poor health outcomes, such as falls. For example, for a person aged between 60-64, the average is 14 for a man, and 12 for a woman. If you are aged 85-89, however, the average score is eight

26/04/2025

Marathon season is here! 🏃‍♀️ Running is not just OK for your joints, it be can be beneficial - Even if you have severe arthritis!
just like Kai Syvertsen, who was diagnosed with a moderately to severely arthritic right hip in his late 30s but ran marathons with the help of physio -

https://www.pennmedicine.org/for-patients-and-visitors/find-a-program-or-service/orthopaedics/hip-pain/hip-surgery/hip-replacement-surgery/hip-replacement-patient-stories/kai #:~:text=Kai%20Syvertsen%20runs%20marathons.,to%20severely%20arthritic%20right%20hip.

18/04/2025

Clinic closed Good Friday and Easter Monday.
Have a great Easter weekend, get out & get active!

16/04/2025

Tomorrow night April 16 starting at 7pm via zoom. Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83426324010

04/04/2025

What factors predict the development of persistent pain conditions?

💤 Disturbed sleep
😟 Anxiety of feeling fed up
😫 Recent life stress
🥱 Feeling tired often
⚖️ Increased BMI

Ref: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02430-4

15/12/2024

24/11/2024

Run for your life!
Can running help prevent Alzheimer’s?

After losing his ‘incredibly kind and supportive’ father to the disease, Stuart Lambie took steps to safeguard his own health

04/11/2024

27/10/2024

Give your bones a work-out!

Did you know weight-lifting is effective at building stronger bones, not just stronger muscles?
- special article in The Observer (UK) today.

14/09/2024

ACL tears can be detrimental (I should know 😔) But especially to female athletes. But correct training and equipment can help prevent and rehab the injury.

Great piece from The Guardian UK (unable to share)-

“It happened about 10 minutes into a match. There was a hum of excitement in the soccer stadium. Ashlee Hincks ran down the wing, received the ball and went to cross it to a teammate. She planted one foot down and prepared to strike the ball with her other foot. But her boot got stuck in the grass; her body kept turning. “Everyone says they hear a pop or a crack. I heard a crack,” she says now. The pain was severe, and Hincks had to be carried off the pitch. She sat in the ambulance praying it was a dislocated kneecap.

It was 8 September 2019. Hincks, then 30, was a striker for Crystal Palace. She had scored more than 25 goals since she had arrived and had been named player of the season. But now what she dreaded most had happened: she had torn her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).

For complex, long-misunderstood reasons, women suffer this injury far more often than men.…..”

14/09/2024

ACL tears can be detrimental to any athlete. I should know 😔.
But it’s a growing problem in female sports….

In the wake of the Lionesses’ success, knee injuries are at epidemic levels in the women’s game. From boots designed for men to unequal training regimes, how much are sexist double standards to blame?

20/06/2024

“Walking three times a week ‘nearly halves’ recurrence of low back pain”
Australian research finds people who walked three to five times weekly for a total of 130minutes stayed pain-free almost twice as long according to the first study of its kind.
Researchers said the findings, published in the Lancet, show walking could have a “profound impact” on the leading cause of disability worldwide.
(Guardian UK).

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