How does Compex Muscle Stimulation work?

                 

Electro-stimulation works and is a method recognized by the medical world.

It is now an integral part of physiotherapy and pain management protocols. It has been a technique used by physical therapists for many years.

Electrostimulation is not a miraculous technique, it respects how your body works.

The principle of electrostimulation is very simple and precisely reproduces the processes that occur when our brain orders muscles to contract. 

When we decide to contract a muscle, our brain sends a signal in the form of an electric current that travels at high speed along the nerve fibers up to the muscle which reacts by contracting.

In the case of electrostimulation, excitation occurs directly on the motor nerve using electrical pulses perfectly controlled to guarantee effectiveness, safety and comfort in use. 

In fact, muscles cannot tell the difference between a voluntary contraction (triggered by the brain) and an electrically induced contraction: the work done is exactly the same. It's natural!

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Can FMS be used to predict injury in Extreme Training Programmes?

               

Therapy Expo 2018

Well, Therapy Expo was amazing.

It was great to catch up with old friends and meet new people in the Industry.

RocDoc Alfie, Paul from Pulseroll, RocDocRob, The Endurance Physio, Rehab Guru and Inside Edge Physiotherapy were all on great form.

I was presenting both my research and Audit on Extreme Training Programmes and Functional Movement Screening.

We cannot predict injury, but we can potentially identify vulnerability.

Both Uzo and Dale were presenting to the Therapy Crowds.

Therapy Expo the Bulletproofbodies Team salute you.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02bxwkAlfcg&t=28s

Bulletproofbodies at Therapy Expo 2018

                

Dale & Uzo from Bulletproofbodies are back at Therapy Expo 2018.

Dale is on at 14.45 on Wednesday:

 and Uzo is presenting multiple times:

Wednesday

21-Nov-2018  09:10 09:40

How to develop a robust recreational vertical athlete from the hip upwards

 21-Nov-2018  11:55 12:25

Spinal manipulation in a time efficient manner to optimise the proprioceptive system in lower limb disorders

Thursday

22-Nov-2018  10:30 11:00

The patient will always tell you what is wrong , if you let them!

 22-Nov-2018  14:35 15:05

How to assess the shoulder girdle depressors in a time efficient manner to diagnose the upper cross athlete

Last year Dale presented on “injuries associated with CrossFit.”

You can still watch the Screencasts from that talk on the following links:

Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC9kABhryPE

Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blIBXaU7oNc

Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppfb94x4jd8

Come and see our good friend Dave Barrow from Rehab Guru at the following times:

21-Nov-2018  09:50 10:20

The digital gateway for rehab, increase success, save time and monitor compliance

 22-Nov-2018  09:10 09:40

The digital gateway for rehab, increase success, save time and monitor compliance

Come and say hello to the Bulletproofbodies team and we will see you at Therapy Expo 2018 at the NEC Birmingham.

Ross Edgley - Swimming Around the UK

It all started and ended in Margate, Kent.

On November 4, 2018, Ross Edgley became the first person to swim around mainland Great Britain.

on 1 June and has endured 37 jellyfish stings, a rotting tongue, suspected torn shoulder and an open neck wound from chafing that even his 3kg of Vaseline could not heal.

Having swum 12 hours a day for almost the distance of London to Moscow (1,796 miles), the strongman admitted feeling a bit wobbly as he was accompanied for the final kilometre by 300 fellow swimmers before being reunited with family and friends.

 “I just got really choked up and had to put my goggles on because I was starting to cry. It was amazing,” he said, after a warm shower and pizza.

To fuel his bonkers feat, Edgley consumed between 10,000 and 15,000 calories each day – up to six times the male average – and wolfed down pizza, pasta, rice pudding, 610 bananas and 314 cans of Red Bull, which backed his challenge. 

His mother’s homemade cheesecake was “hard to get out on the boat,” he said, and now on dry land he has a whole summer of barbecues to catch up on.

https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/projects/great-british-swim

This is not the first time Ross has done something crazy!

The Loughborough University graduate has form when it comes to attempting the outlandish. 

In recent years he’s climbed the height of Everest on a rope in one sitting, 

run a marathon while dragging a Mini behind him, 

and swum 100km (62 miles) in the Caribbean in just 32 hours while attached to a 100lb (45.4kg) log.

The swim around Great Britain was the toughest of them all though.

Ross Edgely is also author to “The World’s Fittest Book.”

Ross Edgely, the Bulletproofbodies Team Salute You.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gSe42VB968

Behind The Scenes - Battle Cancer 2018 - Powered by Again Faster

                 

This is an excellent “behind the scenes” video of this Team at Battle Cancer Manchester 2018.

This young team surprised everyone at Battle Cancer by winning the event.

Joel Carter has done a great job putting this video together.

Having worked with Compex for Athlete Services at both Battle Cancer Manchester and London, I can safely say that this was our "most fun" event of the year.

Well done to Scott for organising these amazing events.

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Army Reserve Physio Symposium 2018

Last weekend was a fantastic Physio symposium for the Army Reserves 2018.

I was presenting on “Raising Movement Standards” within both the Army and the Army reserves.

Jack Chew gave a thought-provoking presentation on “Function over Fashion,” within Physiotherapy.

Check out Jack's "Physio Matters" Podcast:

http://chewshealth.co.uk/the-physio-matters-podcast/

The Royal Army Physical Training Corps where there to tell us about the new Army Fitness tests and the new way the Army is training

 (Functional Movement bias).

A massive thank you to Akshay for organising this outstanding event.

Battle Cancer, Bulletproofbodies & Compex

Battle Cancer London 2018 was a huge success.

Staged at Olympia in West London, Teams of Four engaged in an epic throwdown of CrossFit style events.

Team Compex won the competition, 

With Team Progenex in close second.

Most athletes took us up on the offer of completely FREE treatment on the Compex UK stand.

Two Physio’s Dale (Left) and Freddie (Right) and Osteopath James provided expert Triage, assessment and manual therapy for all athletes competing.

If you are London-based then check out Freddie’s clinic REMEDY:

https://www.remedy.online/

We also provided a FREE taping service for all Athletes as well as state of the art recovery with the Compex.

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One of the WOD's involved carrying an asymmetrical load, in the form of a 30Kg for Women and 50Kg for Men.

Care must be taken when using asymmetrical load as we then treated a number of men who had a spinal lateral shift, with associated pain.

After some expert manual therapy we helped to correct the lateral shift then used the Compex tape to remind them of optimal posture.

As usual the Bulletproofbodies team salutes all athletes who took part and to Scott and others for their expert organisation.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGInpKQW4d3ZVh4lklxI5kA