Performance Therapy — NAT Hip Protocol

  Stuart Hinds demonstrates a treatment protocol for the hip adductors, commonly used to treat soccer players - and applicable to just about everyone.   Tendinitis of the adductor muscles; the pain is similar to a groin strain but onset is gradual and chronic in nature. Inflammation in the adductor muscle tendons or tendon sheaths due to overuse can cause pain in the groin area. Sprinting, football, soccer, hurdling and horse riding can all cause overuse in these muscles. Unresolved injuries such as groin strain can also lead to tendinitis. The adductor muscles include the pectineus, adductor longus, adductor brevis,...

  Treating the hip adductors - Stuart Hinds   Learning to treat these trigger points effectively can be a boon to your practice. (Latin: adducere, to lead toward; magnus, large; brevis, short; longus, long) The adductor magnus is the largest of the adductor muscle group, which also includes the adductor brevis and adductor longus. The adductor longus is the most anterior of the three. The adductor brevis lies anterior to the adductor magnus. The lateral border of the upper fibers of the adductor longus form the medial border of the femoral triangle (the sartorius forms the lateral boundary; the inguinal ligament forms the...

Successful treatment using trigger point therapy in a high-performance obstacle and endurance racing athlete As a therapist or trainer, I’m sure you can identify with the immense satisfaction of knowing that your work has had a direct impact on an athlete being able to achieve their goals. Another one of these proud moments happened for me recently. I first met Tim Kacprzak at the start of his obstacle racing and ultra running athletic journey when he was training for World’s Toughest Mudder, a gruelling 24-hour race in freezing conditions held in the United States. More recently, I worked intensively with...