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Exercise at home
With all of this coronavirus stuff going on at present, I thought I would put out a short little blog post with some exercise ideas for those individuals keen on exercising at home. Below I have included a number of videos that are just bodyweight focused or require...
P4O osteopaths tailor our clients exercise rehab program
Individually tailored exercise rehab / S&C programs - many P4O clients attend P4O every 4, 6, 8 weeks to review their exercise program. We will review the previous program, assess the person and prescribe a revised program according to their current state and...
Thoracic spine mobility drills
In the videos below you will see one of Principle Four Osteopathy clients demonstrating a number of thoracic spine mobility exercises that look to improve thoracic spine flexion/extension, side bending and rotation. This is performed across a number of positions from...
Non-Operative Management of an ACL Injury
https://www.instagram.com/p/B83Iv1NgIq7/ On the weekend, Principle Four Osteopathy was fortunate enough to have Mick Hughes present on the treatment options following an ACL injury. Mick has completed his post-graduate masters in sports physiotherapy and has a special...
Kinetic Link Training anterior press strategies
In the videos below you will see osteopath Heath Williams demonstrating 2 different double arm cable anterior press strategies. The KLT method is a great way to approach training because the focus is on training movements through the kinetic chain rather than an...
Kinetic Link Training inspired posterior chain exercises
Kinetic Link Training or KLT as its also commonly known as is a full body integrated approach that looks to train movements rather than muscles. At Principle Four Osteopathy we integrate the KLT way of thinking into many of our own exercises as well as those of our...
Spinal mobility strategies for the office worker
SPINAL MOBILITY 🤸——————Sitting down helps fix the pelvis, and biases movement towards the upper back (thoracic spine)——————Video one - Flexing and extending. Look up, keeping the chest tall, and slumping down——————Video two - Rotating side to side——————Video three -...
Backfitpro McGill Course Review
https://www.instagram.com/p/B8BRUadgJtu/ On Saturday the 6/2/2020, Principle Four Osteopaths Jarrod Testa and Heath Williams attended Stuart McGill's Backfit Pro Level 2 course - Converging on a precise diagnosis. Two years prior, we were both lucky enough to...
Trunk focused exercise strategies
When it comes to the trunk we need to look at the various functions that it can perform with regards to movement and exercises and then look at how we can look to bias an exercise towards this particular quality within a specific exercise. We all know that in every...
Kinetic Link Training For Shoulder Injuries
For those unaware, Kinetic Link Training (KLT) is a style of strength training that integrates full body movement patterns that can be considered a highly effective approach to strengthening natural human movement in three dimensions. In this blog we are going to...
Follow the P4O Osteopaths on Instagram for all things exercise, rehab and strength and conditioning
Principle Four Osteopathy osteopaths Heath Williams, Shaun Coghlan and Jarrod Testa are all actively putting up regular content for the general population, training population and practitioner. If you are interested in exercise, rehab, strength and conditioning and...
Outdoor Partner Training
Over the recent long weekend the family and I spent the weekend with our friends Luke, V and family down on the coast and luckily enough Luke aka christopherblank is always up for working out. Now before I move onto blogging out about our workouts, for those of you...