Declan Kearney Physical Therapy Clinic

30/08/2024

Congrats to Oisin and coaches in Balllinrobe. Phenomenal achievement!!

𝐈𝐓'𝐒 𝐀 𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐂 𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐙𝐄 🥉😭

Oisin Joyce (Lake District AC) wins Ireland's first ever throws medal at the World Athletics U20 Championships claiming a superb bronze in the Men's Javelin 🤩

The Mayo man extended his own Irish U20 record throwing 73.89m to make the podium in Peru!

SENSATIONAL 🤯

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25/12/2020

Wishing you all a happy and healthy Christmas

23/10/2020

In line with Government guidelines I will be remaining open as usual as we have been designated an essential service.

24/12/2019

Wishing all my clients and friends a very happy and healthy Christmas. The clinic will be back open on 6th Jan.🎅🎅🎅

12/07/2019

My newest plaything in clinic. It's amazing what you find in a toy store for a Tenner!!

18/06/2019

Gutted that it ended with a 1 point loss to Galway but thoroughly enjoyed the last few months working with a fantastic and dedicated group of lads on the Mayo Junior Team.

31/05/2019

With running season getting into full swing, an interesting article into the running patterns of elite marathon runners. There has been a lot of discussion about the 'right' way to run especially relating to reducing heel strike but the take away from this seems that there is no one right way - even among the worlds best athletes.

Data from the last world championships suggests you shouldn’t be concerned about your foot strike, no matter how you land

27/03/2019

Stole this from my colleague Paul Kilcullen but its an interesting piece of research that backs a lot of what happens in my clinic. It showed that strength and balance work are much more important in preventing injuries than purely stretching.

Does this mean that you should stop stretching? Nope – it means that there are more beneficial ways to spend your time, where you will get more bang for your buck.

If you are having recurring issues and a large portion of your rehab is stretching/foam rolling then you maybe need to rethink your strategy. My first question would be why certain muscle always need stretching.

Its also important to recognise that strength training doesn’t always mean your goal is to lift huge weights – its about your body being able to tolerate greater loads and stresses and more importantly your brain and nervous system learning to move safely under increasing loads and sudden changes in stresses.

If you are doing this work and still have recurring injuries then you need to sit down and have a complete rethink about what is going on with your body.

24/09/2018

Fun afternoon working with Danny O'Sullivan of handsdan to tidy up some issues with his system. Also got to go upside down for the first time!!! 😮
Big thanks to Andy Myers of AM Fitness for letting us use his space and for the fantastic coffee. If you are in Dublin and want to move better, this is the place.

30/05/2017

Fantastic talk from Dr. Chatterjee relating to chronic disease. It should always be about asking Why?
https://drchatterjee.com/blog/video-is-it-possible-to-make-diseases-disappear.cfm

Is it possible to make diseases disappear? If we’re talking about chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes and heart disease, then absolutely, says Dr. Rangan Chatterjee in his wonderfully insightful Ted Talk about functional medicine.

24/04/2017

A Really worthwhile video regarding our view of 'normal'. I believe the same type of view should be used when we look at the physical body - we are all on a single continium

https://www.facebook.com/rikalava12/videos/1529267363765604/?pnref=story

03/08/2016

While surgery is often very necessary I still see many patients post surgery that do not report any benefits from their procedure. Surgery should always be considered as the final option - not the first.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/upshot/the-right-to-know-that-an-operation-is-next-to-useless.html?_r=0

About 400,000 middle-aged and older Americans a year have meniscus surgery. One problem: There’s no evidence that it’s worth it.