STAT sports and physiotherapy

19/07/2022

You have been warned! 😉

IASTM = A fancy acronym to describe rubbing an object on people’s skin that isn’t your hands in order to stimulate dermal receptors that may alter afferent information in the short term and generate a meaning response for the patient.

You can do this:

As fast or as slow as the patient likes

As soft or as hard as the patient likes

In whatever direction the patient likes

With whatever edge of the tool that the patient likes

On anyone you would do manual therapy with your hands on.

You DO NOT need someone to teach you how to do this.... You DO NOT need an expensive class to do this…You DO NOT need a special certification to do this…PLEASE stop paying people to teach you their flavor of tool rubbing. This IS NOT where doctorally educated clinicians should be spending their precious dollars!!

Rant over...

Thank you

14/04/2022

I’m sorry, but pain and injuries are almost never a simple black-and-white scenario.

The vast majority of musculoskeletal pain issues have a plethora of contributing factors and typically manifest due to all of those factors working together to push your body out of its zone of homeostasis.

Those different factors can include but are not limited to:
1. Your current activity levels
2. Your historical activity levels
3. Your current metabolic health
4. Your current immune system function
5. Psychosocial factors such as stress, anxiety, depression, fear, self efficacy, history of trauma, etc.
6. The quality of your sleep
7. Neuroplastic changes in your peripheral and central nervous system
8. Adaptive/maladaptive movement patterns
9. Your recovery strategies and stress management activities
10. Your genetic capacity for adaptation and activity tolerance

If you see somebody saying there’s a simple answer or you reach out to someone for advice and they give you a simple explanation that doesn’t depend On some of the factors listed above DONT TRUST THEM!

22/10/2021

Fat But Strong!🤔

05/05/2021

TAKE HEED
Be STAT!

KNEE VALGUS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS WE THOUGHT FOR PREDICTING ACL INJURIES?

Great breakdown on this interesting study by

This just published study followed 880 elite female handball and soccer players after performing a 2D movement analysis looking at frontal plane deviations during the single leg squat and vertical drop jump, common tests used to assess ACL injury risk. 722 non-injured players along with 56 females with a history of a non-contact ACL injury were included in this prospective study. 74 females sustained an ACL injury post-assessment in the years following their inclusion into the study with neither assessment correlating in either group to risk of tearing the ACL.

The Takeaway? We don't know what predisposes individuals to higher ACL tears and this study lends credence to not putting too much weight on these two screening assessments when determining ACL tear risk.

Thoughts on this study?

Source: Agnethe Nilstad, Erich Petushek, Kam-Ming Mok, Roald Bahr & Tron Krosshaug (2021): Kiss goodbye to the ‘kissing knees’: no association between frontal plane inward knee motion and risk of future non-contact ACL injury in elite female athletes, Sports Biomechanics, DOI: 10.1080/14763141.2021.1903541

06/12/2020

https://www.facebook.com/741045372766236/posts/1585359078334857/

Never forget that you are ALWAYS a part of the placebo effect (meaning response) and that every single intervention you perform and interaction you have carries meaning that influences what your patient experiences.

We are completely unable to separate ourselves from this phenomenon in the clinic and it is one of the key factors as to why we can’t blindly believe what we think we see in our clinical results and how we rate the effectiveness of our interventions.

My favorite example demonstrating the non specific effects we impart into treatment is “The open hidden paradigm”. Read about what it is and what it means if you haven’t before!!

09/09/2020

Spread the word! Physios!

I AM NOT endorsing “pain sciencing” anyone, but I will adamantly stand by the message for striving to DO NO HARM!

Two must read papers, both by researcher Ben Darlow:

“Easy to Harm, Hard to Heal: Patient Views About the Back”

And

“The enduring impact of what clinicians say to people with low back pain”

26/08/2020

Lol!!! 😂

30/07/2020

Almost 4 months, Gains keep coming.
Don't have enough weights so keeping the rep ranges between 12-15, 3 sets
True enough, it seems best for muscle stimulation for growth.

27/07/2020

An online STAT client is starting on his journey to fitness. Follow along as we catalogue his progress.



Starting Weight: 98kg
Height: 175cm

24/06/2020

We got lots of time in our hands these days. Imagine what 2 months could do.

I was honestly out of shape for many years causing depression and regret. But opportunity came to start building again. With the simplest tools you can ever imagine, I willed myself back in shape.

Like to find out how? No gym, no fancy equipment, just guts and creativity.

STAT is back.

25/09/2019

Ye must be STAT.