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Hey mate, how's the rehab going? Not my favourite surgery, but hope it's going well for you. You need a good physio who specialises in rehab to performance (strength and conditioning). You need quadriceps strength (lots of it) and glute medius and glute max. strength. If the physio gives you...

Calf raises ++++ seated and standing. Also, slowly increase running so tendon has time to adapt to load.

For sure. VMO work and patella tracking work is ridiculous and such a short sighted view, not taking any biomechanics into question. Treating the knee as a knee, and not the knee as part of a complex connected body. Eccentric work is fantastic as it has been shown to generate as much muscle...

I like your thoughts and I see you strongly subscribe to Boyle's joint by joint approach and regional interdependence. It certainly makes a lot of sense, but in my humble opinion it's not always this simple (or complicated depending how far up the kinetic chain you start treating). In terms of...

If it is 'extremely difficult' not to, i'd be highly questioning my reliance on alcohol and inability to go without. Addiction comes in many forms and can be very subtle. As i've gotten older (30 now), I see society's huge problem with alcohol and how normalised it is. There are a huge...

Interesting take on a tricky injury. My main concern with palpation findings is that we actually have no idea what a hypomobile joint feels like. Research consistently backs up our inability to 'feel' areas of dysfunction. Would love to know your thoughts on the mechanism - eg. decreased...

I assume you are a few weeks post this injury now. Calf tears are common in that age group. Number one factor is strength. Build up to doing 25-30 single leg calf raises (depending on activity level). Glute max strength highly correlated too, strengthen the glutes. I'd add posterior chain into...

An unlikely injury from that exercise. A glute medius tear would cause you to have difficulty standing on one leg and abducting your hip. Could be a little muscle spasm..

Agreed. You see guys squat heavy for 6-8 reps, and then grab some light dumbells and do sets of 15-20 lunges. It doesn't make sense. Hit lunges heavy and low reps - 6 if you ask me.

Sorry mate, just saw this. More on signs and symptoms and basically an educated guess. Unless there is imagine - a CT or bone scan will show stress reactions or bony changes. One thing I have found work to diagnose stress fractures is to use therapeutic ultrasound, which is normally...

I'll have to agree that heavy barbell lunges are fantastic. So good for glute development. I believe squats would hit your quads to a greater extent, but I lunge far more than i squat now. As CptKirk mentioned single leg exercises are so good. A lunge is a great way to develop hip control...

Don't do it.

May have torn your plantar fascia. Fill a plastic water bottle with water and freeze it, then roll your foot on it to do some ice massage. I'd go see someone, trainers generally don't know a lot about these ttype of injuries.

Look up alfredson's eccentric heel rises for achilles tendons. Do that for 12 weeks, if it's a degenerative and chronic issue it should respond.

There is no simple answer to it, but education is key. Realising that pain does not necessary = harm is a good place to start. You basically have to prove to the central nervous system that there is no 'threat' from that movement. Pain is all about perceived threat from the brain - if the brain...