What is New?
We have been lucky to secure a new room at The Glass Yard in Chesterfield and opening a new clinic which will offer a new assessment for runners or if you use running as part of your training. This will be useful for injury recovery, prevention as well as performance improvement. We are incorporating all our current biomechanical assessments but adding in new equipment. The increased size of the room allows space for a more through assessment and to offer rehabilitation treatment. Understanding how and why you move as you do is essential information. This will help explain ongoing injuries or struggling to improve your running.
A Bit More Info
This new clinic will offer one of the most advanced gait analysis and biomechanics assessments for runners in the area. The combination of experienced staff with a wealth of knowledge regarding human movement and cutting edge technology will provide running and movement assessments to fully assess how and why you move as you do. The assessments will uncover your biomechanical make up, your functional strength, how your body moves as a whole unit. The aim being to establish the link between your movement and injury or performance. Assessment is key to understanding why your body has become injured or you feel that you are not able to achieve your true potential. Whether walking or running we subject our bodies to a variety of loads and when we exceed the load our body can tolerate we become injured. Therefore if you know how and why you are loading your body you can take preventative measures when we find the areas of concern.
We are all different and if running you need a running specific assessment
Of course we are all different and we do not subscribe to a single approach. We look at all the data we collect and discuss with you what we feel is going on, what the link is between how your body works and how you feel. We can then look at how to make changes. Not everyone is going to get the same treatment, although there are themes that we see. We aim to identify and treat the root causes of the issues. We do look at short term symptoms, but we do need to address the underlying issues.
Information is key – you need to know how you move as you do
We will discuss with you your activity history, day to day activities, pervious injury(s) and goals for the future. Whether this is a big event or maintaining your daily activities these assessments will aim to get to the root cause of the issues you have and give you a good understanding of the issues and then how to deal with them.
Assessment Process
Assessments will include:
A detail discussion of the history of the issues, previous problems, daily activities, footwear, training, goals for the future, previous treatments and activities.
A thorough examination of the injured area and then a detailed examination of other areas of linked pain, movements, joints and muscles.
Footwear assessment
A standing and movement examination
Barefoot walking
Treadmill walking / running
Outside running if appropriate
Video analysis of the above
Footscan Pressure Mat – walking and running (if required), with and without footwear
Baiobit Functional Assessment
Baiobit | Gait & Motion Technology Ltd | Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk (gaitandmotion.co.uk)
Once we have all of this information we will discuss with you what we think is injured and why this happened. We will go through all the assessment data with you at the time.
We will then discuss with you what we feel needs to happen to get you back injury free or performing at your best.
The Aim of the Treatment
For treatment to most effective there has to be a change in the way you are loading the damaged structures. This is key to to a quicker recovery and a long term solution to the problem. We often see people who have the same issue that keeps on coming back time after time. This is because the underlying cause has not been addressed. We shall discuss with you and explain how you are able to change the loading patterns that you are currently placing onto your body.
Treatment Options
Treatments could include a combination of a options and the timing of when best to do these will be explained. Or you could be lucky and we identify the one thing that sorts it out. Each treatment option that we feel would be beneficial will be discussed and an explanation of what you can expect.
Orthoses – custom or premade, a variety of options but we are now using 3D printing to allow for very precise prescription that is directly related to how you move
Rehabilitation exercises – what we feel you need to do and why
Running or walking gait changes – again a discussion of why and how to make these changes sustainable and not just short term
ICE, pain relief, strapping – all to address local pain
Sports Massage – can be useful for both treatment and prevention
Shockwave – we use shockwave to help bodies start to heal chronic injuries
Manual therapy – hands on therapy for pain relief and improvement of function
Pain discussion – how the body uses pain to protect you, what is good and bad pain
Reducing the damaging load – what do you need to change in the short term
Lifestyle and training activities that maybe having a detrimental effect and need to be managed
Breathing – how you breath can have a serious impact on the way you move
Nutrition – what you are eating on a daily basis or for training / racing could also be a factor
Complimentary activities – a short term change in activities or adding in something new
We have complimentary services such as:
Ultrasound scanning – to have a look at the structures that may be injured. This will give more information on how damaged they are and can help structure treatment and rehabiliation.
Yoga – two types: flow and somatics
Personal training with Mac
Sports massage with Mac
What makes this service unique
We look at every aspect of your running and aim to work with you and your current training and lifestyle. We know that recovery from an injury is hard and frustrating when things are not going to plan. Often all the areas that need to be addressed are not being addressed and we work with you to help you understand how your body repairs and recovers and how we can help this process along. Bodies are brilliant at repairing themselves and we have to work with them and not against them. A short term change that seems frustrating at the time often makes for a quicker overall recovery with a healthier body at the end of it.
Who is this service for?
This service is for people who may be struggling with a persistent injury, or injuries that seem to be moving around, struggling with increase speed or distance and making progress with your training then our new services could shed light on the situation and help you make progress.
Or if you want a very through indepth analysis of how your body works and what you need to do to maintain your current level of activity. As is often said, Information is key so you can be informed of what you are doing.
Where to go from here
Click here for more information or to book
Runners – Colpod therapy (colpodtherapies.co.uk)
I am happy to have a chat so drop a message or give us a call and I will get back to you.
Open Day Saturday 17th August 9.30 for 10 to 3pm(ish)
We are hosting an open day for the new clinic on Saturday 17th August. This will be a day of talks and workshops related to running and moving. We shall be discussing our assessment process and showing off the kit, talking running injuries and treatments, mobility exercises and running drill workshops. We have guests from Chesterfield who have represented GB in both Paratriathlon and 800m. These are Steve Judge and Becky Lynn. Both will giving talks, running workshops and available for discussions and chats about all things running.
Happy Running.
