Stack Pain & Injury Solutions

02/05/2025

Key take aways from last week! Insights from top experts in performance, coaching & return to play.

Keith Thornhill
• Keep it simple.
• Involve everyone in the process.
• Understand acute vs. chronic workload.
• Tailor training to the sport—everything is individual. Prop won’t be exposed to as much high speed as a winger

Andrew Morrissey –
• Look at what a player typically does in a week.
• That’s your benchmark for deciding if they’re ready to return to training.

PJ Wilson
• Support the environment—never dictate.
• It doesn’t have to be specific, but it must be relevant.

David Drake
• “Getting fresh is easy but getting prepared for demands is key.”
• No one-size-fits-all approach, but also no need for a unique program for every player.

Plenty to reflect on & apply from last week! Thanks

27/04/2025

Always nice to put yourself in your clients’ shoes; to see & feel things from their perspective. That includes both pain & recovery.

At the other side of the table today!

Massive value in being able to FEEL the difference in my own body & how quickly things can change when given the right input.

This gives me massive confidence in what we do here on a daily basis being able to feel it for myself

Thanks Dave & Shane- always a pleasure.

Absolute wizards in the flesh 🧙‍♂️

13/09/2024

https://www.irishtimes.com/health/your-wellness/2024/09/12/low-back-pain-treatment-scans-rarely-show-the-cause-expert-says/

Factors including poor sleep, relationship stress and job dissatisfaction cause 90% of low back pain

14/12/2023

Thanks for the review. Absolute pleasure to work with!

See review: https://maps.google.com/maps?cid=6698648959189781239

28/03/2023

League done ✅

Hopefully back in Croker before the year is out 💪

We go again 👊

26/03/2023

Empowering few days learning from to ensure we continue to give world class treatment & rehab 🌍

Recently tore medial meniscus in right knee

working this along with massive limitations in right hip from previous surgeries in 2015

Great to get a bit of treatment & see what it feels like for all our clients my heart goes out to ye all🥵😂

Challenging your Nervous System is🔑 for long term change

If your not stressing your not growing 📈

Thanks looking forward to applying in clinic Monday

31/12/2022

An enjoyable year with a top class management team and a great bunch of players. Looking forward to 2023 👊

Up the Banner 💛💙

12/05/2022

Empowering weekend delighted to see in action again 👌

Also very greatful came home with myself & not Bressie 🙏🏻🤣

Here are some takeaways:

Gerry Hussey:

- Average life expectancy is 900 months we sleep for 300. What are you going to do about however many months you have left? (I’ve 247😳😱)

-We know so much about our external world & so little about our internal world

- The medical world loves conditions. “This is a condition you have & you have to live within your condition”- F**K CONDITIONS

- Where in your life are you playing small?

- The universe is a beautiful place instead of why is this happening to me…why is this happening for me? What is this here to teach?

Bressie:

- Kindness is what you do when no one is watching

- Non judgement- you don’t know what someone else is going through

-99% of people are sound. 1% are arseholes. World is great but we are wired to focus on the negative

-Compassion: recognising humans are flawed

-1st arrow is the suffering the trauma, grief etc 2nd arrow is the arrow we direct at ourselves- the one that does the damage

Miriam

- If you spoke to your partner the way you speak to yourself would they stay with you?

- Face it, feel it, heal it. The only way out of anything is to go through it

- Disease: dis-EASE a lack of ease

-Emotion: energy in motion needs to be moved out of the body- otherwise it will stew

- what we don’t repair we repeat

02/05/2022

How well is your foot distributing load from distal to proximal?

Here we are working on dampening stress through the lower limb!

The nervous system is only happy to produce as much force as it can accept!

06/02/2022

Massive thanks to the two Davids & Dermot for a top class job with the signs & logo! Couldn’t recommend them highly enough 👌

Unbelievable feeling seeing my name above the clinic in my home town.

Thanks Mam & Dad for all the support. Massive thank you to all my clients & mentors.

Looking forward to continuing to help people with aches & pains to get back doing activities they love for many years to come 🌎🏃‍♀️🏋️

07/12/2021

Client experiencing Back Pain for over a year mris bulging discs etc now back surfing and running 🏄‍♂️🏃‍♂️

At we are not looking at a toe touch from a perspective of are the hamstrings tight? What might we need to stretch?

Instead we look at the strategies the client uses to complete the task. Do they have the capacity to allow their anti gravity muscles- their back extensors to relax?

Image on the left shows a spinal stiffening strategy and an inability of the back extensors to relax. Client is very cautious and experiencing pain as they reach towards the floor.

Image 2 taken in session 3 swipe right 👉 we see the upper spine is starting to relax but still unable to fully relax the lower spine. We are relatively pain free at this point doing day to day activities driving putting on socks etc but this client wasn’t settling for that 💪

This is where we really stressed the client in positions he perceived as threatening. He injured his back lifting carpet so we exposed him to these positions.

We also looked at what positions he’ll need to be in while surfing and running and put him into these positions while allowing his back to stay relaxed. Every week we stressed him more and more so that when he goes back doing the activities he loves he’ll be able to handle that stress.

7 sessions later ✅ We see a Nice C curve of the spine pic 1- showing he has the capacity to relax his back muscles allowing them to lengthen! Moving and feeling better than he has in years 🏋️

I did not ‘fix him’. I only highlighted where he was moving well and allowed him come to his own conclusion of his limitations. He put the work in when he stepped outside the 4 walls of the clinic!

There are many people out there suffering with pain, not everyone is willing to put the work in like this champ 💪

27/11/2021

Unbelievable experience working for with the New Zealand All Blacks and Argentinian Rugby teams over the last two weekends!

I have always admired how the All Blacks carry themselves both on and off the field! Having read Legacy a few years back, I can honestly say all of the values outlined by James Kerr held true.

‘Successful leaders look beyond their own field to discover new approaches, learn best practices and push the margins. Then they pass on what they have learned’-James Kerr, Legacy

I will continue to broaden my horizons and give the best care possible to all clients

Thanks for opening the door and thanks for having me as part of Official Sports Services] team. Very grateful for the opportunity🙏🏻

Posted • Official Sports Services] That’s a wrap for our work with the All Blacks this year! Great to join the team again for their fixtures in Rome and Dublin.
Huge thanks to all our Italian and Irish therapists for their hard work 💪🇳🇿



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