Which sports fans are the most active?

It is well recognised that an active lifestyle helps to prevent early death and illness. Whilst back in 2011 over £800 million pounds was spent on admission tickets to attend live sporting events and 1 in 3 people reported attending a live sporting event in the...

Cramp – from the World Cup to Wimbledon…. but why me?

Sports Injuries After only 42 miles of a cycling sportive, the Virgin Cyclone, last Saturday in Northumberland, it hit me! A severe pain in my right hamstring, I looked down expecting to see that another cyclist, with the sleight of hand of that of a world renowned...

Master Golf Injuries

Month: April 2014 The 78th Masters winner will look out at Augusta National and don the famous green jacket but the world’s number 1 player won’t be involved due to injury! Not only is Tiger Woods, the world #1, missing the greatest golf tournament of the professional...
At home rather than at Old Trafford this time

At home rather than at Old Trafford this time

Month: January 2014 It seems quite appropriate that I am posting my first blog of my new Sports Medicine clinic, 7 months since resigning from Sunderland AFC, the night before SAFC play in the second leg of a League Cup semi-final. During the decade I worked for SAFC...