After an eventful few months in Thailand, punctuated with several visits to other neighbouring countries around South East Asia, it is time to move on to the next challenge. To that end I have just arrived in Princeton, New Jersey, on the eastern side of the USA, about an...

The big news of the week in the sports medicine world has to be the settlement between the NFL & the thousands of retired American football players to end their litigation in relation to the consolidated concussion-related claims. The settlement will see the NFL & NFL...

There's no doubt that the event grabbing the majority of the American headlines at the weekend was Superbowl XLVII, which was contested between the San Francisco 49ers & the eventual victors, the Baltimore Ravens. The game was the tenth Super Bowl hosted by the city of New...

I left Vancouver, somewhat subdued, at 5am this morning, drawing on the excitement of going to visit Sam Ramsden, the newly appointed Performance Director at the Seattle Seahawks. Sam was at the Seahawks when I last visited the franchise, in their old training facility back...

After an early start, I arrived at the Timex Performance Center on the scheduled treatment & recovery day. My good friend Byron (Hansen) met me at the door & immediately we set to work on addressing some of the acute injuries sustained in Thursday's comprehensive 36 - 7...

A couple of weeks ago, James Butterfield, a recently graduated physiotherapist had mentioned that he was off to spend a few days in New York. James had spent a few days down at the HiPAC, shadowing my work with UK Athletics to get more experience of physiotherapy in the sport...

As I was flicking through my usual websites to catch up on all my global internet news earlier, I came across what threatens to be a storm brewing in the NFL. I know what you're thinking..."not another one!". & yes, once again, veteran players are involved once more, taking...

This evening I was in touch with my friend, John Geist, whom I met whilst working for the Pittsburgh Steelers at their pre-season training camp last August. John works as an athletic trainer for University of Pittsburgh Medical Center primarily but also helps out with the ...

Vitamin D deficiency has been known to cause an assortment of health problems, a recent study being presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's (AOSSM) Annual Meeting in San Diego today, suggests that lack of the vitamin might also increase the chance of..

A full-on day at the conference, full of interesting conversations & meetings. John Norwig the head trainer at the Pittsburgh Steelers greeted Stephen warmly when he bumped into him & added that “we were part of their season after having spent some time working with them...