Following on with some of our most recent posts on training load and injury/illness as we prepare to welcome Mark Roe for our August Seminar “Minimising Injury Risk and Maximising Performance in the GAA”, we will look at fatigue as a useful marker to monitor the athletes that we work in day to day, especially within the team setting. Management of fatigue is important in mediating adaption to training and ensuring the athlete is prepared for competition. These training responses can be both positive and negative, and helps both the Strength and Conditioning and Medical staff see how the athlet ..read more

When working with sports teams, you meet a mixture of people working within the management and administration of the club/county. As it is still firmly an amateur organisation, the clubs and counties still rely heavily on the volunteerism that has built the foundation of the GAA, and please God may this never change! These people have a mixture of skills and experiences that make the GAA so unique to our country and culture. Everyone has different backgrounds that make trying to mesh an amateur ethos and drive with the professional demands needed to compete at inter-county and club levels easi ..read more

First of all, to all the people who attended, I hope you enjoyed the seminar as much as I did. Fearghal gave a great overview of all things related to Hamstring Injuries. It’s a complicated area and while we have made large strides in the past few years, I do think from the research that we are only beginning to really understand the issue. Normally when we go to these Seminars, we often don’t reflect and learn from them as much as we should (I have been guilty of this). So I would encourage you all to give yourself an hour or two and review the slides over the next few weeks, notebook by your ..read more

As we gear up to present our next speaker Mark Roe, who will speak on training loads and injuries, we will begin to explore the role of training load on both athletic performance and injury reduction. Training load is currently the hot topic within Sports Medicine and Sports Performance. But what is it? Training loads can be broken up into both internal or external variables. Internal training loads are the biological stressors imposed on the athlete during training or competition, these are commonly measured by heart rate, blood lactate, rating of perceived exertion etc. External training loa ..read more

Here’s a podcast we did earlier this year with Fearghal Kerin talking about his career so far and various physiotherapy topics. The post The Sports Physio Journey with Fearghal Kerin appeared first on Dublin Physiotherapy & Sports Physio Clinic ..read more

As some of you may be aware we are hosting a Hamstring Seminar at the start of next month, and in preparation we are catching up on some of the latest research surrounding this topic. It can be an extremely confusing area as much has been done in the past 10 years, however people are still unsure of how to properly manage this injury. We are trying to get some of the best clinicians and researchers to give us an insight into their methods of assessment and management of some of the most complex topics. They will try to give us the most up to date research that they are using on their patients ..read more

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Here is our latest podcast on the lessons learned from Dr. Eamonn Delahunt’s seminar on lateral ankle sprains and chronic ankle instability. The post Ankle Sprain Seminar Recap Podcast appeared first on Dublin Physiotherapy & Sports Physio Clinic ..read more

Ankle Joint injuries contribute substantially to the total injury burden in field and court based sports. Gaelic Football 11% Hurling 9% Elite level soccer 14% Elite level rugby 5.6%-6.8% Knowing and understanding the epidemiological data on the sporting population/groups you work with, allows the practitioner to put into place evidenced based injury reduction programs to help reduce the number of these injuries. Be aware of the extent of the potential problem, so you can be proactive in the management of the playing group  The mechanism of injuries can be broken into two sub-groups: c ..read more

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