If you're a keen runner or do exercise with a lot of jumping elements on hard surfaces, the chances are you have suffered from shin pain. This is known as shin splints or medial tibial stress syndrome.
A high ankle sprain is also called a syndesmosis sprain. The syndesmosis is a fibrous tissue with ligaments that connect the tibia to the fibula. It is damaged when the foot is flexed and turned outwards. This may be caused by movements such as running or being tackled...
Lateral ankle sprains occur when you roll your ankle outwards which causes the ligaments to stretch and become damaged. Movements that commonly cause this rolling to happen may be running on uneven surfaces or landing from a jump. You may feel pain on the outside of yo...
The gastrocnemius is one of the two main calf muscles, which sits outermost and gives the calves their distinctive shape. It has two origins, one from the inside of the knee and the other from the outside. Both join the Achilles tendon about half way down the calf, whi...
The levator scapulae runs from your top of your neck to the top of your shoulder blades. Its main action is to lift the shoulder blade. The pocket stretch is a great way to target it and to ease off a tight neck and shoulders.
The vastus lateralis, vastus intermedius and the vastus medialis muscles all run from the top of your thigh bone to the top of your knee, where they run into the patella tendon which attaches onto the front of your shin. Their main action is knee extension, so they are...
The quadriceps are made up of four muscles. One of those muscles is the rectus femoris. The rectus femoris runs from the front outside edge of your hip bone, down the front of your thigh until it attaches onto the patellar tendon on the top of your knee, running to the...
The infraspinatus is one of four muscles we call the rotator cuff at the shoulder joint. The rotator cuff muscles stabilise the shoulder joint, by keeping your arm bone within the shallow shoulder joint. It runs from the inside edge of your shoulder blade across to the...
Over the past couple of months, Jess has been attending sessions at The Running School in central London.
At each session the instructors have been working with Jess to improve her running technique with the aim that she stay injury-free as her marathon training progres...
We often give this exercise to our clients as part of their home programme to help with core stability, gluteal-hamstring firing pattern and glute muscle strengthening.
