DC Injury Clinic

23/01/2026

It was a full house for my STRENGTH & CONDITIONING WORKSHOP FOR RUNNERS last Friday.

Who wants another one??

By attending this 2 hour workshop, you will;.

🏃‍♀️ Learn the key components of Strength and Conditioning, aimed specifically at running.
🏃‍♂️ Appreciate the importance of why we as runners should strength train.
🏃 Leave with a full repertoire of equipment free, body weight exercises designed to keep you doing the thing you love – running!
🏃‍♀️ Help reduce your risk of injury
🏃‍♂️ Improve endurance, and speed
🏃‍♂️ Understand where and how S&C fits into your program
🏃‍♀️ Critically appraise some myths about common training and therapy concepts! (or how to spot the BS!)

Let me know if you would like to attend the next one, or book yourself in via the website 💪🏼

When: Friday 27th February, 2026
Where: Washbourne House Therapy Centre

17/01/2026

PLEASE READ AND HELP IF YOU CAN.

Friend of DC Injury Clinic Matt has helped 100s of families over the years, and a coupon of days ago had his business (and livelihood) broken into.

Matt has never asked for anything from anyone, but we know that he and his family will be eternally grateful for the support.

Anything you could donate will help to replace these tools so Matt can continue to provide bikes to the local community.

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The bike shed. Old Town.(formerly Run & Repair) is a local bike shop run by local man Matt Jones. Since 2020, over 800 bikes have been passed on for free to the local community through the ‘Bikes for key workers’ scheme during the pandemic and the annual ‘Bikes for kids at Christmas’ scheme by Matt.

Matt won a Pride of Swindon award in 2022 for services to the community.

On 16th January, Matt discovered that his workshop had been broken into. Over £1500 worth of tools were stolen along with bikes. Not only has this affected Matt’s livelihood but he no longer has the tools he needs to fix and pass on the remaining bikes donated by the people of Swindon, to children and families in need in the local community.

Anything you could donate will help to replace these tools so Matt can continue to provide bikes to the local community.

The Bike Shed Old Town (formerly Run & Repair) is a local bike shop run b… Danny Clayton needs your support for The Bike Shed Old Town (formerly Run & Repair)

07/01/2026

If you work in health or fitness, this will sound familiar 👇🏼

- Clients with pain that just won’t settle
- Missed sessions… or clients quietly disappearing
- Wondering “is it safe for them to keep training?”
- Symptoms that don’t match textbooks … or Instagram advice
- Feeling like you’re on your own with tricky cases

Here’s the brutal truth: pain is part of being human. And that pain does not mean you’re a bad coach or therapist.

But the industry now expects more: more knowledge, better reasoning, clearer explanations, and confident decisions - especially when things aren’t straightforward.

For over 15 years I’ve worked alongside PTs, Coaches and massage therapists helping them:

🏋🏼‍♂️ keep clients training (or return them safely)
💪🏼 reduce missed sessions
✅ improve outcomes and retention
🤓 feel confident when cases get complicated

So, I’m offering up something new 🤜🏼

Professional Development & Support for Personal Trainers & Massage Therapists.

This is practical, personalised support to help you help your clients.

There are two ways to work with me:
1️⃣ Ongoing support
🗓️ Monthly sessions (in-person or online)
- Simple explanations of why pain happens
- Joint-by-joint & injury-specific problem solving
- Real client case discussions
- Realistic return-to-training planning

2️⃣ On-demand help
🚨 Ad hoc sessions
- Stuck with a difficult client?
- Want feedback on an assessment or program?
- Need reassurance before trying something new?

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09/12/2025

“Where you think the pain is, the problem is not.”

A very popular phrase in this industry, made famous by Dr. Ida Rolf.

And whilst it absolutely can be true, there are plenty of scenarios whereby there is a beauty in simplicity.

It is very easy to read a Social Media Rehab Guru (TM) post and worry that that lower leg pain you have must be due to nerve damage, or muscles that are "not activating", or muscles that are "over-activating", or because your pelvis is upside down and inside out, or because of that whiplash incident in 1997 - and to then over-analyze and overcomplicate things to the point where we have lost focus on the issue at hand.

And it is very easy in clinic for therapists to link any issue with a multitude of other issues that you had no idea you had.

Remember, sometimes that calf pain *is* a tensioning of a nerve caused by issues originating elsewhere.

But sometimes...
..just *sometimes* ...
.. it's a calf problem.

Find someone who knows the difference

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04/12/2025

I see a lot of people who present with hip pain, hip mobility issues, pelvic pain etc. … or simply for an assessment because they have been told that they “look wonky” 🙄

It ranges from elite dancers to farmers; CrossFitters to the relatively sedentary.

Contrary to common (often nocebic social media driven) belief, the visible structure and symmetry of the pelvis is often nothing more than observation.

And whilst the cause of hip discomfort can vary massively, the vast majority of conditions, once assessed, are non-sinister, require very little intervention, and are safe enough to continue all activity to some level.

However there can be times when hip pain is the symptom of something less pleasant, and it is our job as therapists to know what to look out for, and how to differentiate.

If you are struggling with hip pain yourself - or perhaps you are training clients and you are not sure how to help them further (or even if you should) - drop me a message 👍🏼

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🤕 In pain and want that to change? Drop me a message on here!

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24/11/2025

The next Strength & Conditioning for Runners Workshop sold out in less than 18 hours, which I am very grateful for - thank you to everyone who has signed up: the rewrite starts now to make sure it is always as current and up to date as it can be 🫡

I know there are a few runners who were hoping to attend, or who may still be interested, so I am looking at adding another date early in the new year!

Let me know in the comments if you would be interested 💪🏼

23/11/2025

One of the hardest parts of being injured, or being in pain, is the not knowing.

“Will it get better on its own?”
“How long will it take?”
“What should I do?”
“What shouldn’t I do?”
“Am I safe to continue?”
“Am I making it worse?” ...."How much is this going to cost?!"

I know it's always tempting to give it a "few more days", but the opportunity to have the above questions answered by someone who knows about musculoskeletal pain; someone who knows how these injuries heal; someone who can show you where you are on the predicted healing timeline; can result in dramatically less time suffering, and usually ends up with less treatment in the future.

So if you are stuck not knowing what to do, drop me a message 👍🏼

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💻 In pain and want that to change? Drop me a message on here!

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17/11/2025

Most common running injuries are essentially a mismatch between the load applied, and the load capacity of the body.

This load APPLIED represents physical, psychological and lifestyle demands placed upon the runner and can account for individual runs or sessions, or training blocks or training plans, taking place over days, weeks, months or years.

The load TOLERANCE represents the ability of the runner – or more specifically the tissue structure of the runner – to tolerate the repetitive applied load.

Where this is the case, we have 2 options;

👇🏼 decrease the load applied (i.e. do less)
👆🏼 increase the load tolerance (i.e. get stronger)

In nearly every very case, I recommend the latter.

Not sure how?

Sign up for my Strength & Conditioning Workshop for Runners, January 9th 👍

📄The effect of selective muscle fatigue on sagittal lower limb kinematics and muscle activity during level running, Kellis & Liasson, 2009

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09/11/2025

It was a full house for my STRENGTH & CONDITIONING WORKSHOP FOR RUNNERS on Friday.

And if you attended, all follow up information including 2 sample strength sessions and links to 5 bonus webinars has been emailed out today.

Who wants another one??

By attending this 2 hour workshop, you will;.

🏃‍♀️ Learn the key components of Strength and Conditioning, aimed specifically at running.
🏃‍♂️ Appreciate the importance of why we as runners should strength train.
🏃 Leave with a full repertoire of equipment free, body weight exercises designed to keep you doing the thing you love – running!
🏃‍♀️ Help reduce your risk of injury
🏃‍♂️ Improve endurance, and speed
🏃‍♂️ Understand where and how S&C fits into your program
🏃‍♀️ Critically appraise some myths about common training and therapy concepts! (or how to spot the BS!)

Let me know if you would like to attend the next one.

31/10/2025

I know that I definitely meet proportionally more people in pain than most!

And I also know that everyone my plumber mate meets also, coincidentally, has a boiler issue.

But it always amazes me how many people I meet outside of my clinic that tell me that they live in some level of discomfort … that they just accept.

And whilst I do not believe in chasing people in to an appointment, I also know that in most cases there are very simple things which can take that discomfort away.

Simple things that do not include ongoing week-on-week treatment plans.

With no exit-strategy.

With multiple and differing practitioners.

Often booked in by a receptionist as you leave.

I’ve always felt that - and openly spoken about - one barrier to being pain-free is cost, and there is still an industry reputation (rightly so in some cases, unfortunately) of people being coerced into signing up for treatment plans costing £1000s.

It doesn’t need to be that way.

Of course, if this sounds like you, or if someone you know has pain in the leg that is becoming your pain in the neck, I would be happy to help ☺️

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20/10/2025

It’s very easy to get caught up in treatment plans led by how it ‘feels’ to us therapists.

And you should know - top secret 🤫- it’s very very easy to assume and then diagnose that every muscle we see is ‘tight’ ...

This is because simple objective tests and measures are still commonly misused, misinterpreted, or simply ignored.

And I think it is *because* they are simple that they are being forgotten, as the health and fitness industry insists on over-complicating.

There is a beauty in simplicity.

Know - and nail - the basics 👍🏼

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16/10/2025

The most common running injuries are essentially a mismatch between the load applied, and the load capacity of the body.

This load applied represents physical, psychological and lifestyle demands placed upon the runner and can account for individual runs or sessions, or training blocks or training plans, taking place over days, weeks, months or years.

The load capacity represents the ability of the runner – or more specifically the tissue structure of the runner – to tolerate the repetitive applied load.

Injury development can be a unique experience for each individual as each runner has a particular load tolerance, however each runner’s load capacity will reduce upon a continuum from Full Capacity, to Acute Fatigue, Microscopic Tissue Damage, Macroscopic Tissue Damage, until structural tissue failure occurs.

The best way to protect from this?

We can either decrease load/running (that's a big No No thankyouverymuch), or INCREASE LOAD TOLERANCE; get strong for running!

📄 The effect of selective muscle fatigue on sagittal lower limb kinematics and muscle activity during level running, Kellis & Liasson, 2009

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⛔ This is not medical advice, and is for educational purposes only. Any exercises are carried out at your own risk.