Maryke from Sports Injury Physio talks about why we develop PHT. Maryke explains the causes and treatments, the effects of some inflammatory diseases, the menopause, relative rest and what exercises to do and why.
Many people say the hardest part of being injured is the impact on their mental health. On top of that lots of people take up sport to improve their mental health or as a coping mechanism. Many sporting events are social events. People make friends through sport so when you’re injured you feel losses in many ways.
Maryke Louw of Sports Injury Physio helps you make sense of why you feel grief and how you can help manage these feelings. Click the link below.
https://www.sports-injury-physio.com/post/how-to-deal-with-the-mental-side-of-injury
If you’ve tried most treatments for proximal hamstring tendinopathy and there’s nothing else left that sounds sane, it could be your nutrition blocking your recovery. Nutrition is fundamental to tendon repair.
If you think you are low or deficient, consider blood testing.
Red blood cell and plasma blood tests show what’s happening inside your cells and serum whole blood tests show what’s happening outside your cells, in your whole blood, as it says.
Symptoms of deficiencies include muscle tics, tight muscles, numbness, tingling, headaches, insomnia, fatigue, muscle weakness, hair loss, dry scaly skin, palpitations and more.
It’s not ideal to pop into your local high street health food shop and pick something up, as a stab in the dark, to fix a health problem without blood testing first. There’s a lot of great advice on the internet but using it to work out if you are low on something and trying to fix it yourself, without testing, may cause nutritional imbalances.
For example, magnesium and calcium work together to relax and contract muscles. If you are low in magnesium and top heavy in calcium, your muscles contract causing pulling on your tendons.
Excess vitamin C is eliminated by the body by attaching itself to another mineral which is excreted, resulting in mineral loss.
Whatever supplements you take, they will deplete or impede something else and so it goes on. Plus there are only so many binding sites and if there’s nowhere to bind to, the vitamin or mineral is lost.
If blood testing shows a deficiency, talk to your doctor first before taking supplements and take them temporarily, until blood tests show your levels are optimum, then stop when your doctor advises.
I still see posters on the London Underground advertising multi vitamins with a famous actor (in his 40’s) saying he’s been on them since his twenties.
www.healthyeating.sfgate.com/nutrients-needed-tendons-ligaments-4392.html
Low or deficient vitamin D also impacts your musculoskeletal system. Here’s what the UK Government have to say about it via the NHS.
“The government says it has issued new vitamin D recommendations “to ensure that the majority of the UK population has satisfactory vitamin D blood levels throughout the year, in order to protect musculoskeletal health”.
Read the full advice from the NHS using UK government guidelines here: www.nhs.uk/news/food-and-diet/the-new-guidelines-on-vitamin-d-what-you-need-to-know
Obviously, this applies to the geographical position of the UK but gives a good indication on how important vitamin D is for everyone’s musculoskeletal health.
About Dr. Alison Grimaldi
Exert from Dr. Alison Grimaldi’s Website
With 25 years of clinical experience and particular expertise in the management of hip, groin and lumbo-pelvic pain and dysfunction, Alison is Principal Physiotherapist at Physiotec and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. Alison also has a special interest in the assessment and optimisation of lumbo-pelvic and lower limb biomechanics for running, change of direction and all weightbearing sports, aiming to maximize an athlete’s performance outcomes and minimize risks of injury or re-injury.
Dr. Alison Grimaldi’s ebook series:
Tendinopathies of the hip and pelvis represent a large burden on both the sporting and ageing populations. Growing evidence is shaping contemporary conservative management of tendinopathy.
This e-book series aims to provide readers with guidance towards a deeper understanding of tendinopathies of the hip and pelvis and more effective clinical management based on an emerging evidence base derived from scientific studies on structure and mechanobiological mechanisms, risk factors, impairments and the available information on effects of intervention.
Link to her recently published books including book 3 Proximal Hamstring Tendinopathy:
