by Joshua T. Wall | Exercise Physiology, Musculoskeletal, Physiotherapy, Sports Medicine
Can you bend your thumb back toward your forearm, push your little finger past ninety degrees, or lock your elbows and knees further than everyone else in the room? Most people who can have been told since childhood that they are simply double jointed, and left it...
by Joshua T. Wall | Knee, Musculoskeletal, Physiotherapy, Sports Medicine
Noticed a soft lump or a feeling of fullness behind your knee? It is unsettling, and it sends a lot of people straight to a late-night search. The most common explanation is a Baker’s cyst, also called a popliteal cyst, which is a pocket of joint fluid that has...
by Joshua T. Wall | Lower Back, Musculoskeletal, Physiotherapy, Sports Medicine
When an adult has low back pain, it is usually a muscle or joint problem that settles with time and movement. When a teenage athlete has back pain that keeps coming back, the picture can be different, and it is worth knowing why. In young athletes, one important and...
by Joshua T. Wall | Foot, Musculoskeletal, Podiatry, Sports Medicine
A sore big toe might sound like a minor complaint, but for field-sport players it can be a genuinely stubborn injury that keeps them off the park longer than expected. It even has its own name, turf toe. Turf toe is a sprain of the big toe joint, and it is more common...
by Joshua T. Wall | Hip, Musculoskeletal, Physiotherapy, Sports Medicine
Here is a running injury with an odd signature: it often hurts more when you sit down than when you run. If you have a deep, nagging pain right at the sit-bone, that bony point at the bottom of your buttock, and it is worse after a long drive or a day at your desk,...
by Joshua T. Wall | Knee, Musculoskeletal, Physiotherapy, Sports Medicine
When a kneecap dislocates, it is painful, alarming and hard to forget. The kneecap (the patella) usually slips to the outer side of the knee during a twist, a jump-landing or a knock, and even once it is back in place, one question tends to dominate: will it happen...
