WP Injury, Performance & Education

New football season is here ⚽️

And over the last few weeks I must have seen 8 players with recurring hamstring or quad strains.

There can be plenty of reasons for this, but in amateur sport one of the biggest is simple:

Not enough rehab. Back playing too soon.

And it’s easily done…

Gaffer calls: “How’s the leg feeling?”

You’ve rested it for a couple of weeks. It feels alright. You’re itching to get back involved.

“Yeah, stick me on the bench Saturday.”

You get on, somehow survive 30–45 minutes and then…

POP. Same injury again. Back to square one.

When I was working full-time in football, I developed a simple Return to Play Test for hamstring and quad strains.

No expensive sports science equipment. No guesswork. Just a practical way of taking some of the grey area out of deciding whether someone is actually ready to play again.

If you’re a player coming back from injury, or you’re involved in looking after players at a club, give it a go or add it to your toolbox.

Rested doesn’t always mean ready. ⚽️

Another stint completed with at the UCI Mountain Bike World cups . Blessed to ply my trade in the most beautiful places and with the very best at the pinnacle of world sport. Do something you love and you'll never work another day in your life.
Looking forward to a good break at home now till the next block .Time to work on that golf swing

Preparation:
Because performance starts long before the start gate !
Little things matter and whether a Coach , Therapist , Mechanic , Media ,Chef or Team Manager.
Considering and accumulating those little details through out the build up, could be the thingd that help define the athletes outcome.
All pulling together . Marginal Gains matter.

ELITE SPORT- its not all glitz a glamour! Yes its an amazing life travelling around the world to different venues,it has endless positives. But its also about working through adversity and with what ever is thrown at you . We are not always in the best world class medical facilties or gyms, 90 percent of the time its thinking outside the box and utilising what we are dealt with, so we can carry on providing that world class care to the athlete. Adaptation has to be a massive trait for any therapist on the road with a professional team.

Brilliant week spent at the Redbull Bike performance camp in Schladming Austria last week. Supporting and working with the very best of the best. Such a blast . Honoured and Grateful .
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A Very Demanding Track meant a hugely busy week for myself with Redbull at last weeks UCI MTB World Cup in the French Pyranees . Heat and Dust a plenty . Big thanks to for supplying myself with all the essentials for the up coming races. To say I used a lot is an understatement but these guys are wild . Keep your eyes out for those videos .
Onto Austria now for 2 of 4 back to back .
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