Injury Treatment and Prevention

Many factors will influence your recovery. These include not only your exact injury, but other things such as whether you’ve had the injury before, how old you are and therefore how quickly you heal, your diet, whether you smoke and many other factors.

The illiotibial band is a sheath of thick, fibrous connective tissue that attaches to the top of your pelvis and runs down the outside of the thigh, crossing the knee joint and attaching to the shin bone.

The lumbar spine consists of 5 bones (vertebrae) at the bottom end of the spine. Those 5 bones interact with each other via a total of 30 individual joints, have countless ligaments attaching to them, and also have up to 10 different spinal muscle groups that contribute to their movement.

The menisci are two crescent shaped cartilage discs that sit between the bones of the knee, called the lateral meniscus and medial meniscus. These structures help to provide your knee with stability and shock-absorption during weight bearing activities.

The neck consists of seven bones called vertebrae. Each vertebra is separated from the others by discs, stabilised by joints and ligaments and moved by muscles.