Post-run soreness is one of the most universal experiences in sport. Whether you're a seasoned GAA player or someone who's just started a couch-to-5k programme, the stiff, heavy-legged feeling that follows a hard run is familiar territory…

Running performance is determined by more than fitness. Two athletes with similar VO2 max and training volumes can have dramatically different race times, injury rates, and running experiences based on factors that have nothing to do with how hard they train…

If you spend time in the gym, play overhead sport, or sit at a desk for most of your working day, there is a reasonable chance that a small, largely ignored muscle in your chest is contributing to shoulder pain, reduced performance, and movement dysfunction that you have been blaming on something else entirely…

Athletes obsess over training programmes, nutrition plans, supplement stacks, and recovery gadgets. The one recovery tool that outperforms all of them — and costs nothing — is sleep. Yet it remains the most consistently neglected area of athlete health and performance at every level from elite sport to weekend warriors…

Dry needling has become one of the most discussed treatment techniques in sports rehabilitation. Players hear about it from teammates, see it mentioned in injury updates, and often arrive curious but unsure whether it's right for them…

Most re-injuries don't happen because athletes are reckless. They happen because nobody tested them properly before they went back…

Pre-season is where championships are won — and where most soft tissue injuries are created…

"Just rest it and see how it goes."

It's the most common piece of advice given to injured athletes — and in most cases, it's incomplete at best and counterproductive at worst…

Back pain is one of the most common reasons people seek help from a healthcare professional — and one of the most misunderstood…