Arches And Legs

It has been a big learning week for us. Aized attended the Anatomy Trains Structure and Function course last Friday to Sunday. And Ting Jun and I went for the next part on the "Arches and Legs" for the past three days.

Some of it has been revision of earlier concepts, while incorporating more in depth details as well.

Here are some pictures from our past 3 days at the course.

Feet and arches

Let me have a look too

 Deep in thought

When it comes to learning and making ourselves better physios, we make sure we do not cut any corners. As a team, we've spent lots of time going for courses, discussing difficult cases and sharing what we've learnt with each other to improve ourselves.

Majority of our patients are by "word of mouth" referrals. A patient comes and sees us in our clinic, they get better really quickly and they then refer their families and friends to our clinic.

So please come and see us in our clinics and we'll do our best to help you.

Looking forward to using what we've learnt at work tomorrow. Yes, back to work tomorrow.

FFTT - Floss Band, Foam Roller, Trigger Ball And Taping

Underwrap? To explain fascia?

It's been a few months since we had our last floss band course. I was told by Jane we had eight previous courses so far.

After the last course Jane mentioned to me that many people have asked about the benefits and especially differences between using the Floss band, foam roller, trigger ball and taping.

She told me my new task was to effectively address how FFTT - floss band, foam roller, trigger ball and taping can be effective (or not depending on how you use them) in treating myofascial pain, addressing adhesion/ knots in fascia and improving range of motion.

Talking about fascia

We spent lots of time on the anatomy of fascia. After explaining how to effectively move fascia, we went on to the practical part of the course. Demonstrations using the floss band, foam roller, trigger ball were shown.

Marc helping with the foam roller demo

For the taping bit, I just showed the class pictures. You've got to come to our Kinesio Taping course if you want to learn the taping techniques.

Let me also mentioned that other than Kinesio Taping, Functional Fascial Taping (or FFT) using rigid sports tape too can influence fascia.

Functional fascial taping for the knee

Ron Alexander who used to treat the Australian Ballet dancers developed the technique while working with the ballet dancers.  If you've attended the course, you will know how much you need to "gather" or pull the tape. In Kinesio Taping, the ability of the Kinesio tape to recoil does the work for you.

Once again, chapeau to Jane, Danny and Ekina for coming to get the place ready and for helping me to pack up too. I wouldn't have gotten ready in time to teach without their help. Please contact them at Sanctband Singapore if you are keen to find out more.

Thank you also all the physiotherapy students, physiotherapists, Terrance Yap from Atlas Chiropractic, the teachers from Nanyang Junior College and the rest who attended the course today. Hope you found it useful.

Getting Tang from NYJC to march

The physiotherapy students and their discussion

Gek Han deep in thought

Gurmit comfy on the floor

Retired Pharmacist Comes To Kinesio Taping Course

I forgot to mention yesterday that we have Mrs Chong, who's a grandmother (and trained pharmacist) at 73 years young attending the course with her daughter Alyce.

Mrs Chong in action

Mrs Chong's granddaughter (and Alyce's daughter) competes in gymnastics and equestrian and both of them decided to come and attend the course together (to bond) and to be able to tape competently for their granddaughter and daughter respectively. Now that's real love.

By the way, Mrs Chong also paints, takes many other classes and still takes exams to keep her pharmacist license.

I really respect Mrs Chong's attitude. Note to self - never stop learning.

Back to the course and the day started with some questions on whether participants left their tape on overnight (and many did) and what they felt. None reported any adverse reactions

We continued Day 2 of the course learning all about the six different corrective techniques in Kinesio Taping. Mechanical correction, fascia correction, space correction etc.

A few of the participants brought along different brands of tape to try and none (according to the participants) matched the high standards of the Kinesio FP tape.

Check out the "Heroll" tape

Here are some pictures from the course.

Theresa and her amazing technicolor dream tapes

Both the netball coaches admiring a Team Singapore attire?

Group picture of the participants