Start your journey to pain-free running!
Running is a very injury prone sport and any injury will impact your ability to run at the level you want:
You might be considering running for the first time for personal reasons like losing weight or reducing mental stress. You might need to be properly prepared to run an event to raise money for a charity. Without a guiding hand from an expert, your chances are that you will soon suffer the pain of injury. Without proper coaching, mentally you can quickly lose the drive to succeed.
You are already running but fail to reach your goals because of repeated injury or pain in your legs, back, feet, ankles, hips or knees.
You are an experienced runner needing to stop any niggles turning into injuries, to stay in shape for a busy race schedule?
You are an elite runner looking for insight into your performance and achieving marginal gains?
When you arrive at the clinic, the chances are it's because you are in pain. Our first task is to determine what kind of injury you have that will be causing that pain. Typical examples will be
The reason that choosing gait analysis is so good is that the correct form will limit the impacts of running. Therefore, it helps you understand what footwear is suited to your biomechanical needs.
You will run and walk on the treadmill for a short period, typically less than a minute while a video clip is taken. After this has, one of our qualified team will talk you through the stages of the gait cycle, and answer any questions you may have about what is happening in the video.
Common problems identified by Gait Analysis
After looking at the video, we will recommend suitable footwear to ensure that any inefficiencies or problems identified in the gait analysis are addressed. You must bring your current pair of running shoes to your appointment to help give us a more in-depth analysis the wear pattern on the shoes so that we can show you exactly what is going on.
Nicky and the team can provide custom orthotic solutions to support our findings. We are sure that this means
Nicky Snazell’s Wellness & Physiotherapy Clinic provides national and international services but our core pain management areas are Stafford, Lichfield, Cannock, Rugeley, Hednesford & Uttoxeter. So if you live in these areas we can help.
