by Principle Four Osteopathy | Mar 22, 2012 | News
The Power Band is a great tool that can be used for corrective exercise and rehabilitation exercises for the knee, hip, foot & ankle. Many individuals who suffer from hip, knee or foot & ankle injuries often find themselves having dysfunctional movement...
by Principle Four Osteopathy | Mar 14, 2012 | News
Tri Plane Movement and Functional Training, these are both current words used to describe movement and training by the personal training and allied health profession (osteopath, physiotherapist, exercise physiologist and chiropractor). The health and fitness industry...
by Principle Four Osteopathy | Mar 3, 2012 | News
Following on from a previous post discussing Fryette’s Laws of motion and integrating this into an exercise to improve spinal mobility through motion osteopathy. Below is a video example demonstrating Type 1 Spinal Motion (Sidebending and rotation to opposite side) in...
by Principle Four Osteopathy | Feb 20, 2012 | News
Recently I have had a few gym overuse related injuries attend the clinic for treatment. These have included shoulder impingement, flexor forearm tendonitis and olecranon bursitis. The injuries have come about as a result of over training the shoulders (dumbbells...
by Principle Four Osteopathy | Feb 3, 2012 | News
Osteopath Harrison Fryette believed that spinal mechanics followed specific movements in the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine. Known as Fryette’s Laws, he believed there are 3 key types that govern movement in the axial skeleton. Whilst there will also be...
by Principle Four Osteopathy | Jan 28, 2012 | News
Charles Poliquin is one of the worlds leading strength and conditioning coaches. His resume of coaching olympic and professional athletes is huge. He has recently published an interesting article looking at the squat and dead lift. To read more, please click this...