Cross Country Skiing
In this blog post Physiotherapist Will Howatt discusses all the positive benefits of cross country skiing.
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Winter Running Tips
The Dreaded Cold Yes, unfortunately winter is fast approaching, but that should not mean the end of your running season. Winter running can be invigorating and be just as fun and exciting as running in the other 3 seasons, that is if you dress and prepare accordingly. Here are some of my top tips as
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What Is Your Misogi For 2025?
The Misogi: Meaning “cleaning” is an ancient Japanese Shinto practice involving a cleansing process of the mind, body and spirit through challenging and difficult challenges that one places themselves through. Think New Year resolutions but bigger… In ancient Japanese culture it was once believed that these traditions helped samurai warriors build stronger mental clarity, physical
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Groin Strains In Sport
Groin Strains The fall and winter sports have arrived which means early ice times, fall soccer nights under the lights and an unfortunate rise in groin strains. Hockey and soccer are the two sports that have the highest rates of groin strains and the two sports that result in the most missed time due to
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Running Shoes Part 2
Running Injuries Back again with more running shoe talk…. Lately, (partly due to my own experiences) I have been doing a lot of research on running, running form, running shoes and running training as it relates to injuries and decreasing risk of running related injuries. This new found interest as you might have guessed has
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Running Shoe Guide
Everything You Need To Know about Running Shoes: Running is one of the more popular sports and activities that exist, this is largely due to the ease and flexibility of when and how you partake in the activity. But running can and often does result in injuries, in fact as high as 79% of runners
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Stretching the Good & The Bad
What Is Stretching? For decades stretching has been associated with sports and gyms, you walk into a gym and see a variety of sports being performed. Now ask yourself, would you see anyone stretching? The answer is likely yes. Stretching has been widely distributed on TV and through media as a mans to decrease injury
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Prehab For ACL Reconstruction
What Is the ACL? If you are an athlete or have been around sports chances are you have heard of Anterior Cruciate Ligament tears or ACL tears. Often thought of as the “boogeyman” of sports injuries the ACL is one of the four main ligaments that stabilize the knee joint, its role is to prevent
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Top 4 Tips To Build Habits That Stick
How to Build habits: Habit building may be one of the hardest things that we do. There is a reason why the majority of New Year’s resolutions fail, they are usually not adequately planned and thought through. We simply cannot say “I want to do X more” and go out and do it, it is
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Is Running Bad For Your Knees?
Who has Heard the following About Running: “Running causes knee arthritis” “Running leads to damaged knees” or my personal favourite “Running is bad for my knees”. Likely a large number of you and these are all phrases I hear working as a Physiotherapist. But are they accurate? Running is one of the most common forms of exercises, however, it
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