Stamford Physiotherapy and Pilates at The Broad Street Practice

24/07/2025

Phones, tablets etc can be relevant to neck pain but maybe not for the reasons we think! This article in helps to explain why that may be…… keep moving away!

15/07/2025

Why we will always encourage exercise! 🏋️💪🏻!

Getting fit can be more difficult as you grow older, but a few tweaks to aerobic and resistance training can have a positive impact and reduce the risk of disease

10/07/2025

An old article from looking at what happens when we have an acute muscle injury as seen recently on Centre Court 🎾.

30/06/2025

Have to agree, it is absolutely about the application of any exercise to the right person for the right reason, something we strive to do in clinic every day .

Regularly we see and hear people chastise and criticise common exercises.

These claims tend to be around the fact they think they will lead to injury / increases injury risk and / or poor performance if not done correctly, or with the perfect form and technique.

Yes, a particular exercise or movement may be more appropriate or relevant for a particular person or population of people than it is for others based on the aim of the exercise.

Yes, we could make an exercise or movement have increased risk or be more aggravating if we manipulate certain variables such as dose, frequency, load, range of movement, entry to point to the movement based on current fitness and conditioning etc to a point that it is beyond the current level of ability and tolerance of the person.

But we can’t and shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that there is simply an absence of evidence to support the common beliefs that certain exercises are inherently bad or dangerous to all.

We have to have more context and nuance when discussing exercise and movement in both a healthy and injured population.

There are so many myths and misconceptions that I encounter daily around this.

17/06/2025

Stunning flowers in our reception from , always bringing joy especially the early sweet peas 🥰

10/06/2025

Keeping an eye on conditions where we may not be the appropriate first port of call is vital. Helping with inflammatory diseases by helping patients manage symptoms is a regular part of the physiotherapist’s role.
Thanks to for sharing our work at

20/05/2025

Excellent discussion around pelvic health here.

What you need to know about the essential yet misunderstood body part, including common issues and helpful exercises

12/05/2025

We love this, as we always say, it’s never too late to start strengthening the body and with it heading into a fitter and likelier older age 💪🏻 https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/may/12/a-new-start-after-60-i-did-my-first-pull-up-at-63-then-fought-to-be-a-ninja-warrior?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

02/05/2025

Always an excellent piece to help understand pain, used it again with a patient today in clinic 🤓

Pain and why things hurt, things so often discussed in clinic. The pain specialist Lorimer Moseley gives such a good explanation here, well worth a look and a share for those whom it may help https://youtu.be/gwd-wLdIHjs

02/05/2025

The best six doctors …….. get out into that sunshine 🌞🤓 .

12/04/2025

Brilliant advice for runners again from RunningPhysio 🤓

What is the ‘Running Readiness Scale’ and how does it link to injury? 🏃🏽‍♀️

The RRS was developed by Dr. Blaise Williams to assess a runner’s capabilities as part of clearing them to return to running and to identify areas that could be addressed in rehab. It consists of 5 tests assessed on a pass/ fail basis leading to a score between 0 and 5 (with 5 being best - see graphic for details).

Harrison et al. (2023) utilised it to identify increased hip adduction/ pelvic drop during the tests to determine if a runner was likely to display similar movement patterns during running. They found it to be a reliable and valid tool for clinicians to evaluate knee abduction in female runners.

Hip adduction, pelvic drop and knee abduction during hopping, step-ups and single-leg squats correlated with the same angles measured during running. So runners who scored high on the RRS (i.e. passed more tests without hip adduction/ pelvic drop) had less knee abduction when running.

New research from and colleagues found that athletes who scored low on the RRS (3 or less) were significantly more likely to develop an injury (Luedke et al. 2025). Of the tests within the RRS only the double-leg hop task and wall sit were associated with increased injury risk. Athletes who failed the wall sit were almost 26 times more likely to go on to develop an injury!

Now, before you go testing every runner with the wall sit we need to recognise that this result had very wide confidence intervals (CI 1.4 - 482) with just 5 of the 113 athletes failing this test. So this needs to be interpreted with caution.

One final key point - to date no published research has tested the RSS to determine if the score correlates with a runner’s readiness to return to running after injury. So while it’s an interesting assessment option further research is needed before the RRS is widely adopted in clinic for this role.

Key Reference:
Luedke LE, Reddeman E, Rauh MJ. The Running Readiness Scale and Injury in Collegiate Track & Field and Cross Country Athletes. J Athl Train. 2025 Jan 22. doi: 10.4085/1062-6050-0309.24. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39838857.

07/04/2025

Great advice here 🏃🏃🏼‍♀️🏃🏾‍♂️🏋️🏋️‍♀️🏋🏾‍♂️