Andreas Constantinou Physiotherapy & Clinical Pilates

29/04/2025

Connecting the Dots on Second ACL Tears

01/11/2023

🔹Rehab is a process that requires trust, commitment, and adaptability !!

10/10/2023

The recovery tech industry claims to help athletes bounce back after sports training. Players endorse everything from massage guns from makers like Theragun ...

28/02/2023

🔹Neural mobilization is a movement-based therapy, applied manually or via exercise. The nerve is mobilized relative to adjacent structures, with the aim of reducing symptoms through mechanisms that may be mechanical, and improved load tolerance, or neurophysiologic.

🔹The femoral nerve is located in the pelvis and goes down the front of the leg. It helps the muscles move the hip and straighten the leg. It provides feeling (sensation) to the front of the thigh and part of the lower leg.

🔹Graded exposure stretching, whether performed independently or by the manual therapist appears to be helpful in relieving femoral nerve compression due to lumbar spine pathology (L2-L4) or musculotendinous entrapment.

06/02/2023

One thing that really bugs me is that simple answers to complex problems are often presented that have NO real basis in truth

The diagram in the picture is from a recent back pain paper "Can Biomechanics Research Lead to More Effective Treatment of Low Back Pain?” Cholewicki 2019 JOSPT & is "A metamodel illustrating factors (colored circles) contributing to low back pain, disability, quality of life, and other outcomes”. I like the diagram but don’t agree with all in the paper.

This highlights nicely the complexity of the problem of low back pain. So when you read about that one stretch or muscle that needs to be activated or some other simplistic singular answer. Please have a chuckle with me

30/01/2023

🔹We usually think of pain as being simple, for example, you sprain your ankle and now you have pain. It makes sense to assume if you hurt or damage your body, then you will have pain.

🔹But what about those times you have pain without a cause? People often say they have pain, but can't recall a specific injury. Pain is not determined by a specific injury that happens to a tissue. How you experience pain and to what level is an uconscious interpretation by the brain.

🔹The biopsychosocial approach describes pain and disability as a multidimensional, dynamic interaction among physiological, psychological, and social factors that reciprocally influence one another, resulting in chronic and complex pain syndromes.

27/01/2023

Relevance of muscle fibre typology in sport

🚨What is the relevance of muscle fibre typology in sport? 💪

NEW discusses a non-invasive technique to measure fibre typology and how this can be applied to talent orientation and training programme design 🤔

READ ➡️ https://bit.ly/3HvnQ2y

26/01/2023

🔹Cervical traction is a treatment for neck pain that involves lightly pulling on your head to create space between the bones in your neck (your cervical vertebrae).
You might see it referred to as spinal traction.

🔹People who benefit from cervical traction often have an instant improvement in their neck pain after a few treatments.
Some of the most common benefits are reducing pain, stiffness and reducing tension in your neck muscles.

⚠️Using cervical traction should never be painful. If you have rheumatoid arthritis or have fractured your neck, cervical traction could make the condition worse. Also, if you experience any nausea, headaches, or dizziness, you should discontinue until you've had the chance to talk to your doctor.

23/01/2023

🔹Deep tissue massage use firm pressure and slow stroked to massage deep muscle and fascia, which is the connective tissue that surrounds your muscles.

🔹Deep tissue massage will work out the knots (trigger points) from stressed, overworked muscles and connective tissue (fascia) to alleviate immediate pain, as chronic joint and muscle pain. Itlalso promotes faster healing by increasing blood fl reducing inflammation.

🔹Massage therapy has also been used for the treatment of mental and emot problems, including stress, anxiety, and depression.

09/01/2023

Stay Focused - Be Consistent - Trust the process

04/01/2023

🔹The hamstrings refer to three different muscles in the back of the thigh that run from the hip to the knee (semitendinosus, semimembranosus, biceps femoris long & short head). This muscle group helps us walk, run, and jump.

🔹Because people use their hamstrings in everyday movements, it is important to keep these muscles loose.
Stretching will help people avoid strains and muscle tears

🔹In addition, sometimes a person may feel tightness in the hamstring due to issues with the sciatic nerve. A person should speak to their doctor to determine an underlying cause of the tightness.

02/01/2023

🔹Rip is a tool that was created to meet the needs of combat sports athletes and physical therapists.

🔹Rip training variable resistance exercise is a multi-faceted approach to strength and cardiovascular conditioning that challenges you in all three planes of motion every rep, every set, every workout.

‼️Benefits from training using TRX RIP Trainer:

💪🏻Increase power
💪🏻Emphasis on rotational and asymmetrical movements
💪🏻Improved coordination and balance