Preform Injury Treatments and Training

17/07/2023

Certainly helped keep spirits up on

Oh yes I am!!

19/04/2023

Sitting isn’t completely the problem, the amount of siting compared with the amount of movement is.

We tend to sit more and move less as we age, just watch a toddlers habits compared with an adult.

Chairs have us in hip flexion, as the hip flexors get weaker and our glutes become sandwiched by the chair and our body weight we begin to regress hip stability.

With this becomes an unstable lumbar (lower back) and the pressure continues to get passed up the body.

Leave the chair doing more work than the body and the body gets weaker, stretching weak muscles isn’t going to improve the balance, it’s gonna make it worse long term.

The key is to strengthen what’s weak and lengthen what’s strong, because strong in an imbalanced system usually shows up as tight and unable to function at end range.

15/04/2023

Agree with the fundamental thought here for sure

30/03/2023

Your hips position determines the relationship your what happens at every other joint in your body

When your GCM (general centre of mass) is out of balance, other joints will have to compensate to enable the body to function, whether that is efficiently or not

Addressing the problems in the hip in my opinion are the most important factor for most people, it definitely is the case if you have back, knee, ankle, neck pain…the list goes on.

Hips are the first priority then we work up or down

27/03/2023

Orthotics

Orthotics may help symptoms for a small time but…

When we use an external hardware for a long duration repetitively and don’t solve the cause of the problem the hardware will do the work…

This means that your body does offload the job and the tissues you need to function will continue to get weaker, this goes for inserts and chairs

If you broke your leg and used crutches, would you never walk again and continue to use the crutches?

Of course not, the objective should be to fix rebuild, so you can regain freedom again.

24/03/2023

Back pain is often attributed to a lack of balance in the front and back of the hip

Build up your hip flexor strength, sprinting athletes have hip flexors that are on average 4x the size of the general population.

Stretching them to the point where they go when sprinting will delay the response they fire when trying to prepare for the next step, this will destabilise your hips and your lower back.

This is one of the variables you need to look at to piece the puzzle together

22/03/2023

If your hips are pinching in the front….

Doing more glute shortening work is gonna make it worse, the glutes are important, in particular context, the context that you don’t know how to use them through their full range.

Like with core work…don’t neglect the other parts of your hip.

20/03/2023

Anterior hip shift

If your hips have shifted in front of your ankles, your glutes are either having trouble lengthening, your hip flexors are weak and unable to give the resistance to load the glute.

If you deadlift and squeeze your butt at the top, you are shortening muscles that are already short, you will inhibit their ability to lengthen, that is the stimulus you will be feeding your system, and you’re goddamn right and a little adapt to it.

You feed the problem with every rep, only work in ranges you can actively get into, they will get greater with time.

17/03/2023

Core work

Realise that you could be creating problems or adding to one’s you already have with things you think are making you stronger or better.

Find what’s missing….consider what you need to work on.

Focus there and you’ll restore balance and true fully body strength

16/03/2023

Soft tissue work can be painful

Everyone we have in wants different approaches to treatment, we use sports massage as our main method of treatment, with sports massage we are working in a deep tissue fashion, massage like this can create a sensation of tenderness, we use this to guide our treatments.

The general consensus is if tissue feels tender when exposed to mild to moderate compression it shouldn’t hurt, if it does there are some some issues with the relationship between the nervous and muscular/fascia system and we can make a change to these relationships with massage.

Post massage we can end up with bruising, cupping marks, increased blood flow, tenderness etc, it’s not always pretty, we recommend that people do SMR (Self myofascial release) because recognition that we need to chip away at the tensions by exposing them to compression regularly for the short term while making changes to lifestyle and our training.

15/03/2023

Flexibility

Stretches are something many of us base our training around, some of us do none at all, we at preform only stretch when under load, tension and maintenance of tensegrity and stability.

Can we be too stiff? Yes
Can we be too mobile? Yes

Context isn’t always taken into consideration, the why is the most important question for me, when we are babies we are very mobile, but we lack the strength initially to be able to even hold our own heads….this demonstrates a lack of stability.

As we develop from the floor (tummy time) to all fours (crawling) to our feet (walking) we are building stability and tension, if all healthily babies are hyper mobile and they build tension and stability, we can too.

Babies can’t sprint like Usain Bolt or Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce or jump like Michael Jordan. This is because they haven’t built the tension and elasticity for the stretch reflex necessary to react to movement, the ground and gravity.

Stretching too much can create a loss of stability, stiffness is just as important as range of motion.