Paragon Physiotherapy and Sports Clinic

[Paragon Physiotherapy and Sports Clinic @Paragon_Physio]

Eating well, exercising regularly, and taking care of your body is hard. Having health problems is hard.

Choose your hard.

[Paragon Physiotherapy and Sports Clinic @Paragon_Physio]

“Rehab is training in the presence of injury.”

- Phil Glasgow, former Chief Physiotherapist for Team GB

[Paragon Physiotherapy and Sports Clinic @Paragon_Physio]

Going to physio and never having your exercises progressed is like running 1 mile every day in the hopes of one day being able to run a marathon.

[Paragon Physiotherapy and Sports Clinic @Paragon_Physio]

“During bench press and row exercises, rotator cuff muscles contract in a reciprocal direction-specific manner in their role as shoulder joint dynamic stabilizers to counterbalance antero-posterior translation forces.”

J. Electro. Kin. 2011

[Paragon Physiotherapy and Sports Clinic @Paragon_Physio]

Higher quadriceps strength was significantly associated with less progression of knee cartilage damage in females. This suggests the potential protective role of quadriceps strength on joint structures in women.

- Gong et al. 2022 BMC Musculoskelet. Disord.

[Paragon Physiotherapy and Sports Clinic @Paragon_Physio]

@chenweihua @elonmusk Nah, people should know when it’s communist state propaganda

[Jorn Trommelen, PhD @JornTrommelen]

Can endurance training support muscle mass gains with resistance training?

A thread 🧵👇

#gains #capillary #muscle

[Asker Jeukendrup @Jeukendrup]

Eating carbohydrate soon after exercise will result in faster glycogen synthesis than delaying it by 2 hours. @mysportscience

[Paragon Physiotherapy and Sports Clinic @Paragon_Physio]

Being taught rehab exercise by a physio who has never trained before is like being taught swimming by a coach who’s never been in the water.

[Paragon Physiotherapy and Sports Clinic @Paragon_Physio]

High intensity exercise therapy (ET) produces greater improvements than moderate intensity ET in patients with chronic low back pain.

⁃Verbrugghe, J., et al. 2019