Audience: Patients and other health care providers
Purpose: To explain my treatment approach to Persistent Pain Problems.
Below is a guest post from Chris Beardsley in response to a recent post of mine that questioned the possibility of any manual intervention (this includes foam rolling) influencing the physical properties of fascia. It is also questioned how relevant is to pain and dysfunction.
By: Chris Beardsley
more from Chris at his website: http://www.strengthandconditioningresearch.com/ (more…)
Purpose: Fascia is everywhere, provides a fantastic structural support for the body and has the ability to transmit force from force generating muscles. But we as therapists tend to get ahead of ourselves and make statements about treatments and the body’s function that I am not sure make sense and haven’t made sense for the past decade that I’ve questioned it.
Audience: Runner’s looking to start a simple resistance exercise program who still want most of their time spent running
Background
You can justify strength training for runners via performance enhancement and injury prevention. Surprisingly, the evidence for performance enhancement is much stronger than injury prevention.
