After many many years in this industry we know that this is the time of year when people will very shortly start asking us here at The Reinge Clinic , what pieces of home exercise equipment we recommend, ready to start their new year fitness drive🤗. Home cardio Equipment The most common of those questions revolves around the problem that the person can't fit very much into the spare room or garage so wants advice on the best all round cardio machine. Well, we have the perfec

Let's face it, there is nothing fun about Plantar Fasciitis, but if you have it, how do you fix it? Let's take a look at the options without resorting to orthotics or living with it! Calming things down Ice is your friend... "Itis" at the end of a word means inflammation. So Plantar Fasciitis is so named because the fascia on the plantar (base) of the foot is inflamed. Inflammation is painful, so here are a few ways to calm that inflammation. Grab your washing up bowl and som

Back problems are experienced by almost everyone at some point in their life, whether you have a sedentary job, or a physical job, solving back problems doesn’t need to be complicated. Here are our 5 tip tips to avoid those back problems. #1 – Strengthen your core Now to do this you don’t need to visit a gym, the best way to strengthen your core is to sit on an unstable object. Your core muscles are designed to hold your pelvis in a straight position relative to your spine. W

Running, it’s the simplest thing on earth? So why do so many runners end up with niggles, injuries and sometimes, outright pain? There is nothing more likely to ruin running development than not being able to run at all! So what can we do to avoid getting those injuries in the first place? #1 - Avoid over striding. Over striding is easy to spot. If your foot lands in front of your body when you run, you have an over stride. Perhaps get a running friend to watch you while you

Autumn is a fantastic time to exercise outdoors, heading out into the fresh air is not only good for your physical health but also for your mental health. It is well documented that the look, see and touch of the natural environment has a calming effect on anxiety 😀 and can help with depression and other mental health concerns. Here are a few top tips to help with Autumn exercising. A warm up will reduce your chance of injury It is getting chillier and this is the time o

10, 000 steps is the number of steps everyone is supposed to achieve in a day. But how easy is this to do? During lockdown actually 10,000 steps wasn't too hard, the daily walk took about 20mins, the sun was shining and it gave a desperately needed break from the house. But now, with the challenges of working, a child to look after and the weather turning! It is much harder... so what tips can we give you. 🚶‍♂️ Well firstly, it is fairly amazing how many steps are done by ju

Hello everybody, as you may well have noticed, we often blog about back pain and that’s because its such a common issue and in most cases, actually very easy to improve. So, here we go once again, but looking at things in a slightly different way to some of our previous blogs. 😀 In the past we have talked about poor strength and poor activation of the spinal and pelvis stablisers, we have identified exercises and approaches that can help with these so you can always complime

It's that time of year when we are heading into the 10k and half / full marathon season. Most of us are starting to increase our mileage and in particular, follow set training programmes. But it's also that time of year when the clinic goes crazy with running based injuries. So if it's not going well 😧 what do you do 🤔 I have a race in few weeks but am injured! This is an awful and all too common scenario. What should you do? Is the issue consistent for more than a week? If

Winter can be strange in the UK, days can veer wildly from unseasonably warm, to full coatings of ice with no warning. Then you casually step out of your back door, straight onto ice, and find yourself on your back, staring up at the 6am sky, wondering if all your limbs will still function. Is there a good way to fall if I slip on ice? Well, yes there is. 😀Most slips on ice result in a backwards fall as your feet slip out from under you. This is a frightening and potential

"You are not 5' 7" I informed my client. "Really" said the client! I used to be 5' 9" but I am definitely 5' 7" these days. This is a conversation I have had for years and with hundreds of clients. We do shrink a little with the passage of time due to the continual compressive forces that act through the spine and the natural dehydration that occurs in the intervertebral discs, in fact this happens throughout a short a time period as a day 😱 So, here's a little fun: Measure

Five secret tips to get you to and through a Marathon 👍 Well with the Marathon season upon us, here at The Reinge Clinic we will rapidly be filling up with last minute injuries, we always do. So in this blog we are going to highlight some of the common questions and injuries we see at this stage of the approach that lead to either confusion 😕 or injury 😞. 1) This is not the time to change your shoes! One of the most common queries we get at this time is, "Are these shoes

This is the time of year when we see those Ice Rinks appear and how inviting they are! So what Top Tips can we give if you fancy having a go and stepping out onto the ice? 1. Wear Thick Socks!! No Really. 😉 This isn't because the ice rink is cold, because actually most people feel really hot when they go skating. It is because it is really important to make sure those boots are done up tightly. Several years ago Gina did First Aid on an ice rink for the winter season. Let's

My goodness me!! The talk we delivered about gait analysis at @RunFesttheseries, and that I blogged on last week, has gone down even better than I thought! We have been absolutely snowed under with bookings for gait analysis by those who attended the evening! However, I cant really bring myself to do another blog about gait, because something is much, much more pressing...... The question of 'what on earth is wrong with me🤨 ?!' I mean the idea to do the Dart 10k swim was

One of the most frequent things we blog about here at The Reinge Clinic is posture; but let's put some bones (no pun intended) on that. This week I had an extremely common occurrence whilst treating a client with all manner of neck pain, back pain, and headaches. I could see how far her posture was out so took a photo of it so she could see it too. Her immediate response, as an ex gymnast and a dancer was that it actually looked pretty good to her. Now, this is where I want

One of the most common things we see at The Reinge Clinic is back pain. This is also one of the main reasons people have time off work, so it is worth avoiding! If you are self employed, with a physical job, it is even more important to avoid back pain that may stop you being able to work. So why do so many people get back pain? 🤔 Well simply put it is all about posture. Posture is a buzz word these days, but what exactly does it mean and why is it so important. Our bodies

In our previous blog we looked at when to seek help with injury and pain. In this blog we consider the concept of prevention rather than cure 🤗. After several decades of treating injuries, very few of which are as the direct result of an accident, I find it incredibly frustrating 😤 when somebody presents with an issue it is, on nearly every occasion, the result of something that started out as a small niggle, months or even years ago. But, what if we could avoid all these n

This week I found myself explaining to a client how, what had started out as an easy to clear up injury, had become a lengthy and difficult nightmare of compensation on top of compensation on top of compensation. "Layers of an onion" as we often phrase it. In particular, I explained that had it been treated much earlier those layers would never have built up. This is a conversation we have at The Reinge Clinic far too often. So, how do you know when you need to seek help with

As any one following us will know we moved into new premises this week and Sid the Skeleton despite concerns during the move about limb loss, dust and road safety, is really rather happy with his new home.......... and so was I 😁 Of course, you would expect me to be happy, I mean we now have air con, but I have another reason to be particularly happy.........I have done three cycling analysis' this week and I have discovered I can fit a bike on the Turbo Trainer and film the

Ok, following the previous blog dealing with the terms 'itis' and 'pathy' I promised I would take a look at Achilles tendon issues this time around, so here goes. 😀 When people come to see us at The Reinge Clinic with Achilles issues they will usually have been diagnosed with one of two things: Achiles Tendonitis or Achilles Tendonosis. Many of or clients are either confused by the term or have been led to believe they are the same thing. It is important to be aware these ar

I promised that this week I would give a few pointers about what the wear pattern on your shoe says about your running gait. I will apologise right now for how dry this blog is, but to make this exciting or entertaining would be an achievement of true greatness. 🤣 By the time people come to us with problems, we usually find wear patterns that have been on the shoe for months. Had these been picked up early on, it could have prevented a niggle from becoming a full blown issu