Julie Lee Physiotherapy

09/10/2024

03/04/2024

Long weekend stroll in the peaks⛰️

Finally got out to Chrome Hill and it didn't disappoint. Even caught a clipse of some rare blue sky !

15/08/2022

MY WHY?

Why did I want to be a physio?

I want to help people get back to doing the things that make them as happy as being active in the mountains makes me !

What's your why?

05/08/2022

Taper week starts and suddenly I’m feeling a bit fluish and exhausted. During my visit with she reminded me that this happened last time before a race and so I started doing some research and found the following:

“Runners and immunity
….But elite and endurance athletes who train more intensely might be at a greater risk for upper respiratory tract infections (URTI). A study published in The Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical FitnessTrusted Source found that many Los Angeles marathon participants self-reported infectious episodes both during periods of intense training and after the race.

Why? Experts believe immune function might be altered and may even be suppressed for a period of time after prolonged or intensive exercise.

According to Dr. David Neiman’s open window theoryTrusted Source, in the three to 72 hours after an intensive training session or race, your immunity may be suppressed. That means it might be easier for viruses and bacteria to take hold, increasing your risk for infection.

If tapering begins immediately after your most intense period of training, the open window theory would explain why runners get sick during this time. But more research is needed to understand exactly what’s happening to the immune system in endurance athletes.” -
https://www.healthline.com/health/fitness-exercise/sick-while-marathon-tapering -and-immunity”

Well this makes total sense and I also think it’s God/the universe’s way of telling me to chill out and enjoy the timeout. Sleep, rest and restore! No need to panic, just enjoy the quite time. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have sonic the hedgehog lightning bolts shooting out your b***y and doing 500000 things at once, slow and steady. That’s how you get ready (ahh I’m a poet tok🤣)

13/06/2022

There are a lot of gofundme pages out there.

Read this one.

Sam is an incredible young man and deserves a chance to make his US dreams come true !

Sam is a young South African Long-Jumper who dreams of studying & competing in the Unite… Duncan Andrew needs your support for Let's get this kid to America!

14/03/2022

Brilliant weekend at 3 Cranes challenge!

I'm convinced that an outdoor office is the way to go 🥳

21/02/2022

My 'WHY?'

Reviews like this make it all worthwhile 🙂

Helping people get back to 'feeling human' is why I love my job.

What's your why ?

25/10/2021

Looking forward to teaming up with to provide physio and sports massage at sports events in and around SA 🇿🇦

coming up this weekend 🥳

If you run an event and are looking for sports physios to help keep your participants up and running give us a shout !

25/10/2021

Looking forward to a fun weekend !! 😃😃

20/09/2021

A HUGE pet peeve of mine is when patients have been told that they have to have 'perfect' posture if they want to be pain free !

📚 I could go on about this all day but instead Slater et al have summed it up nicely and I've put it onto this post.

Give it a read and let me know in the comments what your thoughts and beliefs about posture are.

09/09/2021

My momma always said I had a screw loose 🦴🔩

It's crazy to think that for 3 months these two little guys held my pelvis in place while bone grew around them.
It honestly blows my mind that surgeons can do what they do and how much our bodies can tolerate.

I'm so grateful that I was lucky enough to get the surgery I needed, even if has been the toughest 6months of my life.

Hopefully this is the last step in the process and I'll be back running and lifting and riding my bike soooon 🏃‍♀️🏋‍♀️🚴‍♀️

Keep moving 🏃🏃‍♀️