Caroline Arnold Sports Therapy and Pilates

04/11/2025

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10/10/2025

Balance both

Cardio keeps your heart beating strong.
Strength training keeps your body capable, confident, and resilient.

Run for endurance.
Lift for power.
Do both for balance.

Because it’s not enough to simply exist longer
you deserve to thrive longer.

04/10/2025

More Tai Chi benefits

💡 Tai Chi exercise, lasting 15 to 30 min per session, performed three times a week over an intervention period of at least 16 weeks, may represent the most effective intervention for alleviating chronic low back pain in adults.

👉🏻 This is from the new paper "Exercise prescription for improving chronic low back pain in adults: a network meta-analysis" by Zhao et al 2025

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31/08/2025

Amazing to think our knee cartilage has equivalent strength to concrete! !

Will function even with a tear

Is cartilage stronger than concrete⁉️

Beluzzi et al. (2023) say cartilage strength is approximately 9 to 40 Mpa. The compressive strength of standard concrete is 17 to 35 MPa.

They have comparable strength, but cartilage is a living, viscoelastic tissue which is far more resilient than concrete under repeated dynamic loading and manages millions of load cycles during its lifetime.

This strength and resilience allows it to function even with a tear. This may be why tears are often asymptomatic, even in runners.

As with everything, individual cases will vary and management will be influenced by the type of tear and symptoms such as locking, giving way or persistent loss of range.

The good news is that many meniscal tears can be managed conservatively without need for surgery. Reassuring people about the toughness of the knee and its cartilage can help them see that rehab is well worth a shot!!

31/08/2025

Great advice

29/08/2025

We are unique

We all move differently

Our movements are meant to be unpredictable and chaotic

Doesn’t stop us from working on our biomechanics but not for the reasons you think

13/08/2025

☯️ is a way of life.

12/08/2025

and play at our classes
Monday and Wednesday 6pm
DM for details

☯️ If you can't have a good laugh at yourself, then who can you laugh at, right? Check out more of my self-drawn cartoons!
https://taichidaily.co/blogs/tai-chi-blog/tai-chi-cartoon

02/08/2025

Injured?

Needing a progression plan to help return to running

Have a look at this

The 3, 2, 1 weekly plan is a flexible approach that can be used to get runners back on track after injury.

02/08/2025