Lochend Boxing Club

Edinburgh's leading boxing club run by Terry McCormack. Home of the Undispute Champion of the World Josh Taylor.
A gym for all. Amateurs & Pros.

[CruelJohno @crueljohno]

An evening of Amateur Boxing courtesy of @Lochend_ABC

📍Portobello Town Hall, Edinburgh

[CruelJohno @crueljohno]

With Matty McHale & Iain Wilson of @StAndrewsSC on a rare night at a show as a fan.

Well done to the boxers & everyone involved, it was a brilliant event put together by @Lochend_ABC #Grassroots #Amateur #Boxing

📍Portobello Town Hall, Edinburgh

[Lochend Boxing Club @Lochend_ABC]

🥊 FIGHT DAY 🥊

Tonight's the night.

📍 Porty Town Hall

Not got your ticket yet? No problem. Simply come along tonight &pay at the door.

Expect a night of top-class amateur boxing featuring the Lochend team alongside boxers from clubs across Scotland.

£30 Entry cash only

[St Andrew's S.C @StAndrewsSC]

𝑨𝑵𝑫 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑾𝑰𝑵𝑵𝑬𝑹 𝑰𝑺…

Matty McHale stays active with an 8 rounder tonight!

A smooth sailing performance sees him awarded all rounds over Erick Omar Lopez!

Back to big fights next for the Commonwealth champion 👀

𝑳𝒂𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒏 𝑳𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒄𝒚 2.0 🌊

[Top Rank Boxing @trboxing]

Favorite fighter from the 80's? 🤔

Watch the best of the decade today on #TopRankClassics.

➡️ https://t.co/R65cbFCvbt

[St Andrew's S.C @StAndrewsSC]

𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑪𝑯𝑨𝑴𝑷 𝑹𝑬𝑻𝑼𝑹𝑵𝑺 👑

Matty McHale staying busy with some more bigs looming… 👀

Don’t miss your chance to see him fight in Paisley on 𝑳𝒂𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒏 𝑳𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒄𝒚 2.0 🌊 …

🎟️ : You can still buy NOW via the link 👇

[Allan Picken @brackenskye]

@StAndrewsSC @Lochend_ABC Matty McHale, looking good.

[N. Martin Domin @martin_domin]

A few days late but on the five-year anniversary of @JoshTaylorBoxer becoming undisputed, came across this documentary I put put together on his road to Jose Ramirez and all four belts...

https://t.co/dfepQWJoSm

[St Andrew's S.C @StAndrewsSC]

𝑭𝑰𝑮𝑯𝑻 𝑾𝑬𝑬𝑲…

This Friday night, we take professional boxing back to Paisley with card stacked with Scottish talent!

Don’t miss 𝑳𝒂𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒏 𝑳𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒄𝒚 2.0 🌊

🎟️ Last tickets available via boxers direct or NOW on the link 👇 ! 💨

[Josh Taylor @JoshTaylorBoxer]

Great piece by wally downes on my career. Thanks for putting it out on the anniversary of the historic win to become undisputed. A great piece about my life and history in the sport 👌🏼👊🏼
#TTT

[Wally Downes Jr @WallyDownes_Jr]

On the anniversary of his most iconic win, this has gone out at the most perfect time

I think @JoshTaylorBoxer is one of the most underrated British fighters of our times

He's a mad bastard

But he's a four-belt undisputed legend, like it or not

https://t.co/ZibFY4x9zD

[Josh Taylor @JoshTaylorBoxer]

5 years ago today I created history.
1st & only undisputed champion of the world from these shores! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 👑
#18Fights
#GaisgeachAlbannach

[St Andrew's S.C @StAndrewsSC]

𝑳𝑨𝑺𝑻 𝑻𝑰𝑴𝑬 𝑶𝑼𝑻…

Matty McHale has special 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 ✨ which seen him crowned Commonwealth champion!

He forced an 11th round stoppage of Ijaz Ahmed with precision and relentless pressure 💥

[Lochend Boxing Club @Lochend_ABC]

Less than 2 weeks

Tickets are going fast.

It will be another fantastic night of amateur boxing with evenly matched, high quality bouts.

😃

[St Andrew's S.C @StAndrewsSC]

𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑩𝑳𝑬 𝑺𝑼𝑷𝑷𝑶𝑹𝑻 🤝

As we draw closer to 𝑳𝒂𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒏 𝑳𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒄𝒚 2.0 🌊 a number of the featuring boxers are helping each other prepare for their bouts…

[Lochend Boxing Club @Lochend_ABC]

@NaturPictures @pete

[Helen How Edinburgh @HelenHowOsteo]

One of the biggest things athletes have taught me over the years is that insertional Achilles tendinopathy does not always tolerate endless heel drops well in the early stages.

Many athletes who had already spent months — sometimes years — in failed rehab programmes told me the same thing:
“These exercises just keep aggravating it.”

That consistent feedback changed the way I approached these cases clinically.

Heel drops absolutely still have a role in Achilles rehabilitation — particularly later in the loading progression — but insertional Achilles pathology is mechanically different from mid-portion tendinopathy, and excessive dorsiflexion loading too early can sometimes flare symptoms rather than improve them.

Over time, many athletes responded far better to progressive isometric holds combined with focused shockwave rehabilitation before progressing into heavier dynamic loading later.

The biggest lesson?
Listen to your athlete.

Too many athletes are still being pushed through exercises that consistently aggravate symptoms simply because that has historically been the standard protocol.

Pain during rehabilitation is not always a sign the tendon is adapting well. Sometimes it is the tendon telling you the loading strategy is too aggressive for that stage of healing.

After 11 years of treating Achilles tendons with focused shockwave rehabilitation, it’s been fascinating to watch the profession evolve. It’s great to see more clinicians now using focused and radial shockwave regularly.

What would be even better is seeing wider use of focused shockwave for chronic load-related injuries that continue to fail traditional rehabilitation approaches.

[Helen How Edinburgh @HelenHowOsteo]

This 56-year-old ultramarathon runner developed severe osteitis pubis after repeated ultra-endurance loading. What began as “groin pain” progressed into major functional limitation.

By the time he presented:
• Walking was limited to ~2 miles
• Coughing and sneezing caused sharp pubic/adductor pain
• Turning in bed was severely painful
• Getting in and out of the car hurt
• He had to physically hold his legs together to roll in bed
• He could not tolerate a simple adductor squeeze test
• Right leg strength and stability had significantly deteriorated

Despite months of physiotherapy elsewhere, symptoms continued to worsen.

Eventually, the patient self-referred for MRI himself.

Imaging confirmed osteitis pubis with associated right hip labral pathology.

After researching treatment options himself, he attended our clinic for combined Focused Shockwave Therapy (fESWT) and EMTT alongside progressive rehabilitation and strict load management.

Importantly, because of the significant delay in diagnosis, imaging and targeted treatment, this case required substantially more focused Shockwave and EMTT sessions than would normally be expected in earlier-stage presentations. By the time treatment began, the patient was already in a severe and highly irritable state with major functional limitation.

Seven months later:
• Pain-free coughing/sneezing
• Pain-free bed turning
• Pain-free car transfers
• Walking 12+ miles without after-effects
• Significant restoration of strength and function

Importantly — he has not rushed back to running. Recovery from bone-stress pathology requires patience, progressive loading and respect for tissue healing.

Cases like this highlight how easily osteitis pubis can be missed in endurance athletes when early imaging is delayed — and how prolonged diagnostic delay may significantly extend rehabilitation timelines.

Published with full informed patient consent.

#OsteitisPubis #Ultrarunning #ShockwaveTherapy #SportsMedicine #RunningInjury #GroinPain #ESWT #EMTT #BoneStress #Rehabilitation #Ultramarathon #SportsInjuries