Six tips to reduce your risk of injury and keep you motivated when thinking of taking up running or a sport that involves running Tip ONE – Improve your core If you are new to running then it is a good idea to improve your core before starting your training. Yoga, Tai...
What is a Sprain/Strain? A sprain occurs when you apply excess stress on your back that can overstretch and damage ligaments. A back strain is an injury to either a muscle or tendon What causes strains and sprains? Our backs are amazing structures that cope with such...
Most winter sports injuries are to the lower extremities and the bulk of those involve damage to the knees. A lot of knee injuries occur through falling or when landing a jump. Whilst it may not be possible to prevent all of these injuries from occurring, many of them...
With the start of the running season upon us perhaps you are training for the Reading Half Marathon or some other race? Hopefully your training is going to plan, slowly increasing your mileage week by week and once you hit your longest run you will taper down in...
Are you Planning to return to or take up a new sport in 2024 – Perhaps skiing or a marathon or half-marathon? At Theale Wellbeing we often see people who have been inspired to suddenly increase their activity with various sports only to develop an injury because...
