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Common Running Injuries and How to Get Back to Running

Most running injuries are overuse, not bad luck. Here is where runners get injured, why smart loading beats rest, and how to return to running without picking the injury straight back up.

Back pain · 6 min read

How to Ease Lower Back Pain: A Physiotherapist's Guide

Most lower back pain is not caused by anything sinister and recovers well with movement and time. Here is what actually helps, the red flags worth knowing, and when to see a physiotherapist.

Kaizen coach guiding a kneeling medicine-ball drill in the gym

Insurance · 8 min read

How to get physiotherapy covered by insurance

Whether you are covered, how to check, how to claim and what you need before your first appointment. The practical steps, insurer by insurer.

Skier pausing on a cloudy mountain ridge

Insurance · 6 min read

Does travel insurance cover physiotherapy when you return to the U.K.?

Injured on holiday? What travel insurance actually covers for physiotherapy abroad and once you are back in the UK, and the steps that keep your claim intact.

Treatment room at Kaizen Physiotherapy & Performance with plinth, rolled towels and desk

Physiotherapy · 4 min read

What are the Benefits of Physiotherapy?

What a physio session actually includes, the six core benefits it offers, and how a management plan is built around your injury and your goals.

Three finishers with medals at the Geordieman triathlon

Nutrition · 4 min read

The Wonders of Sports Nutrition from the Perspective of an Idiot, and an Expert

Gus took on an Olympic triathlon underprepared and paid for it. Here he asks nutritionist Jake the questions every endurance novice has, and gets expert answers.

Man on the phone in the sun, checking physiotherapy cover with his insurer

Insurance · 2 min read

Physiotherapy Insurance - why so confusing?

Excess, authorisation codes, session caps and networks: why physio insurance feels so opaque, and the questions that cut through it.

Runner mid-stride on a road in blue trainers

Running · 2 min read

We need to talk about…Running (part 1)

S&C coach Nick Garcia joins the Kaizen podcast to talk running: training load, strength work for runners and the habits that keep you on the road.

Kaizen and Fortius Clinic wrist and hand ski injury advice poster

Skiing · 4 min read

Ski Injury Series - Hand and Wrist part 2

Part two of the Ski Injury series: getting home safely with a wrist or hand injury, who to see back in the UK, and how insurance fits in.

Skiing · 4 min read

Ski Injury Series - Hand and Wrist part 1

Part one of the Ski Injury series with the Fortius Clinic: what to do on the piste when a wrist or hand goes wrong, and how to tell a break from a sprain.

Black Labrador wearing a ski helmet and goggles at the Kaizen clinic

Skiing · 5 min read

Injury Prevention for Skiing - is there anything that humans are consistently less prepared for?

Gus loves the mountain enough to have worked a season in Courchevel as a ski physio. Here is his honest take on why skiing catches so many of us underprepared, and what actually helps.

Kaizen physiotherapist guiding a patient through a loaded exercise on the reformer

Reformer Pilates · 5 min read

The Benefits of Using Reformer Pilates in Physiotherapy

Gus explores what the reformer actually adds to rehab, and puts David through a session he will not forget in the process.

Galvanised metal buckets on a white table, the injury bucket analogy

Injury Management · 10 min read

The Injury Bucket. The key principle to injury management. Part 1: the premise

The analogy nearly every Kaizen patient hears: your tissue capacity is a bucket, load is what fills it, and injury is the overflow. Understand the bucket and injury management starts to make sense.

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