From all at Cleve Chiropractic and Next Step
So this is my first blog of the New Year and I would like to welcome all of the new readers from the ‘Fishponds Voice’ to the cohort from the Downend Voice, who have put up with my ramblings for exactly a year. To all of the new readers I will explain what this blog is all about. I was asked to start writing this blog to discuss any injuries that people wish to hear about (you can email me for any specific injuries that you would like me to discuss) and talk about all of the wide ranging experiences that elite sports chiropractic and owning elite sports injury clinics (Cleve Chiropractic and Next Step Exercise and Performance Centre in Mangotsfield) provides. I also have a 9-month-old baby girl called Molly, who if I don’t mention from time to time gets me in trouble!
I have worked in Premier league rugby for Bath for many years, in Premier league football with QPR, at the London Olympics within the athlete’s village, also separately with the GB Paralympic team and this summer, for a bit of variety, with the English Hip-Hop team in Florida! That being said we thoroughly enjoy bringing the plethora of our sports experience to all of our patients who vary from young to old and sporting to non-sporting. Name your injury – we love treating it!
This month we had the patient who breaks all records travelling the furthest to come and work with us, in fact she couldn’t have come from further afield. When we got the phone call from Australia asking if she could book in to use our Alter-G (anti-gravity) treadmill and join our spin classes, for a month whilst she is over here visiting relatives, my receptionist nearly fell off her chair!
My most fantastic wife has given me permission to go skiing at the end of the month. I couldn’t go last year because of the affliction of pregnancy and the guilt I felt leaving her at home. Don’t worry those unnatural feelings are well behind me and I am now happily leaving my wife and child for a short 5 days for sun, snow and skiing. A naughtily sized Toblerone from Geneva airport should smooth things over when I return. Jen is a sucker for all things chocolate, which I hear is good for you…as long as you only smell it.
This is the time of year that we get so many patients booking in last minute, desperate for us to fix them before a ski trip to Méribel, for a pain that they have just picked up or even an online booking whilst still in the Alps after a snow boarding “back flip with hand grab onto a rail down a black run” went wrong. I try and encourage people to join our classes to get fit for skiing. This reduces the chance of injury by pre-habilitating your muscles and reducing fatigue. It also helps you enjoy your skiing more because you are not so knackered (I think I may be getting old but I love a sleep for an hour after I finish my day on the slopes). Not showing off helps reduce injury rates as well. This is something that I suffer from, which is not going to be helped by the fact that I am skiing with a group of guys that I have not skied with before, which always leads to who can go the fastest to the bottom (or jump off the highest cliff with their eyes closed wearing a florescent all-in-one from the eighties). Hopefully the fact that I am the youngest (at 35 years old) will slow us down and maybe, just maybe, I won’t be the most unfit person there for a change.
For the Molly-ettes out there, in the last week she has figured out clapping and that she has muscles in her face so now she can make a ‘running through a brick wall’ face on cue by scrunching up her nose.
As always, please email me with any queries.
Tim Button
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