OrthoLift

17/05/2020

Finally finished my review of the Documentary The Game Changers. It's not for the faint of heart. Enjoy the read 🧐

In this article, I will be discussing the documentary the game changers, as it was one of the most deceiving, biased, and misinformed documentaries I have ever watched (I haven’t watch many and genuinely wish them all not to be so)

10/05/2020

All Vegan Things 3 - Performance II.
A relatively longer read than usual, where I detail the most common micro-nutrient deficiencies that vegans have to contend with on regular basis.

In part 2 of the series, I delved a little into the macronutrient composition of vegan diets, and highlighted the problems vegans encounter thereof. In part 3 of the series, I intend on discussing some of the micronutrients deficiencies that vegans need to deal with.

03/05/2020

All Vegan Things 2 - Performance I, which details macronutrient composition and difficulties vegans athletes and gym goers contend with.

In part 2, I would like to shed some light on sports & athletic performance whilst adhering to a vegan diet, and discuss the macronutrient composition thereof

26/04/2020

Vegan vs. omnivore diets. What does the literature say regarding health?

All Vegan Things 1, is part 1 of a 3 series detailing some of the research comparing vegan diets to omnivorous ones. It will entail a variety of topics such as health, sports performance and metabolic function. And an extra article on the game changers.

18/04/2020

All Protein Things 3 - Common Myths and Misconceptions.

In part 2, I made a case for why we should eat more protein, in part 3, I’d like to address some of the most common myths and misconceptions regarding high protein intake.

11/04/2020

All Protein things part 2, in which I make a case for why we should eat more protein and give general guidelines to doing so.

Why Eat more Protein? I don’t get asked this question often enough, if anything I rarely get asked this question which sort of tells me that people in general are not aware of the benefits of having a tad bit more protein in their diets.

04/04/2020

All Protein things part 1. I discuss some basic but important concepts such as digestibility and quality of proteins.

All Protein Things 1, in which I define Protein and discuss its digestibility and quality.

18/03/2020

Part 3 of the Tennis Elbow Series, la Finale. Free feel to inquire about it, and reader feedback is appreciated.

Tennis Elbow part 3, detailing surgery, stretching & exercise as a treatment modality with exemplar exercises

11/03/2020

Tennis Elbow Part 2, I discuss some of the treatment modalities with regards to the current literature.

Tennis Elbow Part 2, detailing the most common treatment modalities available.

06/03/2020

I know I promised research reviews long time ago, but I didn't live up to it, so here is to second tries. I designed a website and now I attend on using it as platform to expand my business. Anyways I plan on writing a 3 part series on Tennis Elbow, and here is part 1.

In this 3 part series, I plan on addressing one of the most common injuries of the elbow, lateral epicondylitis also know as Tennis Elbow. The plan is to address its etiology, prevalence and some of the most common treatment modalities. And so without further or due, here....we...go.

17/09/2019

I'm going to kick off my first injury post with some humor. It's one of the cases that I worked on a couple of months ago.

Female in her early 20s, non-athletic, came complaining of left-sided posterior leg pain when traveling. She actually called her problem 'London Syndrome', it seemed that every time she travels to London, she develops the symptoms, and then they'd relatively subside on her return. The pain would start a day after landing, not before that.

She was getting quite anxious about it at that point, and she'd be worried if the pain will start again if she were to travel.

So I took her relevant history, asked her about the duration and when it had started, I asked about a traumatic incident, but everything seemed unremarkable. On physical examination, she had tight hamstrings, but no difference in strength between both sides. I examined her hips, knees, and ankles for ROM but everything checks out. She had no apprehension to any of the tests that I conducted.

At first, it seemed like distal hamstring tendinopathy, but it didn't fit the picture at all, no overuse, young, and conditional on traveling. So I dug into her daily and travel habits more.
Turns out that she sits in extreme knee flexion positions on chairs, and she does so for prolonged hours on end, then when the hamstrings are used a bit, the pain would develop.

So I had her walk for 25 minutes the first day to provoke symptoms, then I did some soft tissue manipulation.
On the second day, she could walk up to 30ish minutes or so before pain had developed. I did more soft tissue manipulation.
And you get the picture. within a weeks time, her pain had resolved completely. It was cool when she told me that she traveled and had no pain whatsoever.