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Assessment, diagnosis and treatment of injuries and movement dysfunctions.

25/11/2025

One more win on my Osgood’s schlatters program ✅

Key principle on the program it’s to restore function on the weak muscles that attach to the knee 👍

Isolated muscle function first then move to more functional work afterwards 🔥

21/11/2025

Do you know what muscle groups I am testing here?

This muscle is crucial for shoulder stability and scapular function ✅

Great strong test from this athlete here 👏🏻

20/11/2025

Are you suffering with Achilles pain?

Often but not always in my clinic testing shows that the Achilles and the muscles attaching to the Achilles need soft tissue work not strength work ✅

I know this goes against the grain or common thought but it’s what my testing shows and it gets my clients back fast 💨

In fact often my clients come frustrated with not getting results with their rehab (strength work) and we change things up and results come quickly 🙌

18/11/2025

Is your rehab not helping your achilles pain?🏃‍♂️

One thing that most people miss is, beside the Achilles, running up the posterior calf we have a muscle called:

➡️ Flexor Hallucis Longus

Or the big toe flexor is a more common name for it…

This muscle is very often over active and is commonly part of the problem alongside Achilles pain ✅

When it is over active (compensating) it is usually due to weakness or inhibition of the opposite muscle….

➡️ Extensor Hallucis Longus

To correct this imbalance we have to release the flexor (tennis ball) then this 🔝exercise to activate the extensor 💪

Daily rehab will allow these to function optimally rather than having one over and one under working 💥

🔥🔥 Secret Sauce: Often there is a weakness higher up the chain contributing aswell (glute max, rec fem) are common!

17/11/2025

Some of my best work on show here.

Personalised prehab work is the future of the industry ✅

Rather than focusing on how to get athletes back from injury attention turns to keeping them on the pitch 🔥

There is no better way for this to be done than prehab work specifically for what that athlete needs at that specific time 👍

14/11/2025

Do you know what muscle group I testing here?

This muscle is important for hip, lower back and groin health 🏋️‍♂️

Very often it will get soft tissue work but I question if this is the right intervention - I find it needs more strength work more often 🤔

13/11/2025

Are your injury problems curtailing your sporting performance?

Naomi came into clinic this year after she had a tough 15 months with injury causing set back after set back ⚽️

Bear in mind she is only 19years old, so 15 months is a very long time to be out 👎

On the first appointment I corrected 7 imbalances at her right ankle. Set some rehab and booked her in for a few weeks time.

On the next appointment the rehab tested perfectly and she told me she had done the rehab (20 mins) on the other ankle also!

I knew then things wouldn’t be anything other than a success.

On this Prehab program I Test, correct and set rehab for any weak muscles/ligaments from the big toe to the rib cage ✅

Ankles, feet, calves, knees, quads, hamstrings, hip flexors, hip abductors, glutes, core and lumbar spine 🏃‍♂️

Testing and correcting problems before they become a problem/injury 🔥

11/11/2025

Do you have knee pain behind the knee?

My client’s pain was that bad he went to hospital fearing it was his meniscus or cartilage ⛳️

Behind the knee we have multiple muscle attachments - but the one I generally find the most problematic is the Popliteus 👎

This muscle is a stabiliser of the knee.

When the bigger muscles surrounding the knee aren’t activating well enough this muscle can spasm 😩

For this client the muscle that was weak was the rec fem ❌

Give him some rehab of release work behind the knee and activation work on the rec fem to get that contracting better ✅

Also corrected and rehabbed 3 more imbalances around the knee 🔑

Happy client 👍

10/11/2025

Is your knee pain causing you to miss training and games?

All of these pro athletes had previous issues with Osgood Schlatters ✅

1️⃣ Declan Rice - had this issue at 14 and played a big part in his release from Chelsea.

2️⃣ Raphael Varane - spoke recently and revealed that he remembers crying due to not being able to train.

3️⃣ Shaq O’Neal - he had a brace on one knee and metal braces on the other. He couldn’t do anything the pain was that bad!

4️⃣ Koby Brant - ‘I didn’t score a basket, a free throw, nothing. I sobbed my eyes out’

The key is having the belief that this pain won’t stop you and at some stage you will find the right answer 🔑

That attitude alone will take you a long way 🔥

09/11/2025

Do you think it’s a serious injury?

Man united player came on as sub but had to go off injured - leaving united to finish the game with 10 men 👎

Probably will have a MRI tomorrow to see the damage 🔑

Hopefully nothing too serious 🤞

06/11/2025

Is your knee joint sore?

These two clients are both 60+ ✅

But age is just a number.

Majority of the time MRIs aren’t needed ❌

Test to find weakness 1️⃣

Get the weaknesses working better 2️⃣

As simple as that 🔥

04/11/2025

Solid testing work or hocus pocus?

1️⃣ Rec fem tested strong

2️⃣ Rec fem tested weak when we contracted the toes first

What does this tell us 🤔

What I am doing here is testing these muscle groups in relationship with each other 👍

Rec fem is testing good on its own.

But when test how it’s functioning in relationship with the toe flexors it is testing weak.

In other terms - contraction of the toe flexors is causing an inhibition of the rec fem ✅

Muscles contract in pairs so this is a great way to determine deeper dysfunction in the system 🏋️‍♂️

Once we took tension out of the toe flexors then re-activated the rec fem the testing changed 🔥

Will need consistent rehab now to embed the new pattern!

Address

11 Clarendon Street
Derry
BT487EP

Website

http://www.ruairilynchsportsinjuryclinic.co.uk/

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