Kerspuy Physiotherapy

23/12/2025

23/12/2025

Just Two South Africans representing different Nations. A successful year in sport for the team. working with the New Zealand indoor Hockey team who had a successful Nkosi Cup and continuing his work with the Italian athletic federation.

12/09/2025

Good luck to the Italian team, coach Paolo and at the World Athletics Championships💪🏽 Big shout out to and ....it's time to shine💫

01/08/2025

Cara was privileged to work with the Western Province Peninsula team during the IPT this week. They played hard and showed lots of heart🩵.

17/06/2025

We want to say a massive congratulations to Lisa Toms and her partner for winning the Legends competition up in Jozi this weekend. Definitely another person that trusts the process and puts in the work! Keep up the amazing work!

17/06/2025

Congratulations to Lisa Toms and partner on their brilliant achievement this weekend 🫶🏽👏🏽👏🏽

28/01/2025

The Step Down Task is an exercise we use to prepare athletes for the demands of running and landing from a jump. This exercise addresses:

- Stability of the lumbo-pelvic system, the knee and ankle/foot complex
- Force absorption
- Deceleration

Weight bearing and energy storing tendons such as the Patella tendon and Achilles tendon, clinically, I found has to be trained to absorb force even though the athlete has good strength in the muscles of these tendons.

At this point we have ticked the required criteria to execute this task such as the dynamic stability of the pelvis, knee and foot complex, ensuring we have good recruitment of the Gluteus Medius, VMO recruitment and optimal Quad strength for this phase and of cause recruitment of the FHL and Tibialis Posterior for optimal control of the ankle and foot complex during ground contact, to avoid things like over pronation of the foot.

Once that has all been covered in the early stages we can progress to the step down task.

In the Initial stages of doing this, there is a psychological component that needs to be addressed, whether it is the fear of dropping down onto the affected leg or lack of confidence in the leg, so be patient with the athlete and help guide them through this process. Our cues are to lift the back leg before we strike the ground with the front foot. Landing with a soft knee, and athletic posture and maintaining good form, avoiding over pronation of the foot, pelvic drop or knee collapse. My go to thought for the athlete is “big toe Glut Med”. Remember quality over quantity, correct one thing at a time and building until the athlete can execute the task confidently and autonomously.

23/12/2024

We will be closed from 24 Dec - 6th Jan.
Have a blessed festive season 🪷

22/10/2024

Well done and congratulations to all our runners that ran the and trail. Putting in the work and trusting the process. We couldn't be prouder at Kerspuy Physiotherapy

16/09/2024

ACL reconstruction progression to return to sport👏👏

16/09/2024

Well done Leo💪
What a blessing for Wade to be part of his journey 🏆

02/09/2024

Congratulations Mpumi 🥇💪