Looking at shoulder positioning
How placing holding your chest up and engaging your shoulders places them in a position the relieves neck pain
Straightness in the horse and the role of the rider
Sometimes I look around at people riding these amazing animals and I wonder if these riders are aware of their responsibility to control straightness. Obviously, there needs to be forward motion in order to get straightness but there also needs to be a responsibility taken by the rider to be in balance and self-carriage themselves. …
Is it important to set an example on the High Street?
Women, men, girls and boys walk up and down the high street, admiring clothes as they look in the windows of the shops displaying the latest fashion. We learn how to do things and what is right and wrong from the environment that surrounds us. We copy and recreate images and actions that we see. …
How to improve your power on the bike – does the core affect our cycling?
Cycling is a simple act of turning pedals with your legs, which turn a chain, which turn the wheel, which move you forwards on the road. If when you push your foot down on the pedal you are arching your back or moving your shoulders you are losing the energy expended into your body and …
The importance of assessing posture
Alignment is key to prevent injury reduce pain and improve performance. If one builds a house on unstable foundations then the walls will move and cracks will appear. It is the same if one trains on a crooked platform, you will compensate and cause certain muscles to pull and be challenged which will potentially cause …
Tight Hip Flexors
The root cause of many people’s lower back pain and other health problems could be down to tight hip flexors. The impact the hips have on the whole body was never totally clear to me until I trained as a biomechanist and started to understand the relationship between the hips and the body. Tight or …
The importance of “Recoil”
Recoil is an interesting concept. Do we need muscle strength? Maybe our bodies move in fact through stretch and release – through recoil. In golf, cricket, tennis to even handball player would we be able to throw the ball as far if we just had strong arm muscles but no body tension? Recoil will only …
Ankle strength and stability
If your ankles do not have the same range of motion or strength – will that affect your body? Maybe there is no pain – but if you do not move and stabilise the same on each side you will compensate at your knee or at your hip or at your lower back in order …
Lovely rewarding message from Andy
” Hi Emma, happy new year I just wanted to say a massive thanks for your help over the past few years with my knee and shoulder. Shoulder is probably 99% excepting when I’m dehydrated I notice it in the morning. Thanks and I hope this year brings some good times. Andy”
Gait Analysis Testing
Emma has just finished assessing motion – she has added to her Biomechanics Coaching screening with “Gait Analysis” testing . Now we can be more thorough in testing the body both statically and in movement, and so get a bigger picture of the route causes of problems. Testing is about looking at issues from all angles – …
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