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From everyone at Ergotec Health, we'd like to say a big congratulations to our Therapist, Sophie Tabor, who completed the Fugitive Half Iron Distance Triathlon! The event took place yesterday, in Marlow and Sophie completed the gruelling 1,900 metre swim, 86 kilometre cycle and 20 kilometre...
Following on from our last post about loading, and in particular how tendons react to overload, let’s look at a few examples of different cases of tendinopathy. Case A: A 34 year old male, let’s call him Colin, is convinced by his friends to come and play...
“I have no idea how it started. I just woke up one morning and it was there.” This vague and generic response is one of the most common things we hear from our clients when we ask how they think their pain started. We’ve all been there....
Running Exercises The third, and final, section is a set of very familiar and routine running drills. They combine the principles of the first 2 sections and apply it into faster, more dynamic movements that increase the intensity and elevate the heart rate in preparation for...
Strength, Plyometrics and Balance Exercises The second section dives in to the real nuts and bolts of injury prevention: boring, slow, repetitive exercises that focus on quality and control of movement, rather than counting reps and sets. This section is only completed at training. Sounds enticing, I...
Now that we have introduced the FIFA 11+ program and discussed the building blocks of injury prevention, let’s breakdown the different sections of the program. Part 1: Running exercises The first section follows a more traditional movement-based warm up routine that most footballers would be familiar with...
Continuing on from our series on the FIFA 11+ So first, let’s look at the basic building blocks behind injury prevention. Step 1: Identify the most common mechanisms behind footballing injuries. Particular weight is given to the injuries that may be preventable, require longer periods of rehab, and have...
Well, it’s actually been around for over 10 years, but the FIFA landmark injury prevention program has had time to grow and is now backed by high level evidence as a gold standard template for running and team based sports. In 2004, FIFA’s Medical Assessment and...
We would like to give a warm welcome to our new team members David and Pramuk....
Ergotec Health Studios are thrilled to announce that we’ve had a website redesign recently. As you can tell, there has been some impressive changes to our website, how it operates and the overall appearance on how it looks. We like to keep our clients and...