FREESTYLE DANCER

Hi all, apologies for the absence. Setting up the clinic in Ballincollig has been taking up quite a bit of my time. Everything is in place now and the 3rd clinic will be on Wednesday the 26th of October. This will be the final clinic before the Dublin Marathon as I will be in Dublin at the expo for the rest of the weekend - do come along as I will have the plynth with me and I will be stretching people at the Clonakilty Waterfront Marathon Stand.  Well, aside from all my lovely runners, I have treated some very interesting cases in the last fortnight. One case was a freestyle dancer who we will call Katie. Katie has been dancing since a very young age and is now close to leaving cert. Katie's main problem started just over a year ago with a pinching sensation in the front of her hip. This progressed to significant pain which impeded her ability to dance. Despite frequent visits to physiotherapists, tens therapy and visits to physical therapists, Katie just could not get relief from this hip pain. Over the year, the pain has lessened from where it was initially but she feels that her flexibility is seriously hampered on her left side and her ability to move without pain is impacting on her dancing. Katie had some very tender areas and while moving her leg through what should be a normal range of movement she was nearly hopping off the bed due to the pain in the front of her hip which was travelling into her groin and down her thigh. Following the first session (where there were lots of gasps - and so we had to move into doing everything in baby steps) Katie returned after a week. She was delighted to say that even after the week of walking to school and dancing, she felt much more fluid in her movement and while stretching at dancing, her range of movement had improved and her pain had drastically reduced. Throughout her second session, it was much easier for me to identify where her real issue were in terms of tightness and guarding as the tissue was much more relaxed. I will be seeing Katie at my clinic again on the 26th and will hopefully have more to report then.