Hawkes Physiotherapy Blog

I am now able to offer full biomechanical assessments at Sub 4 Health: http://www.sub-4.co.uk/ So what does biomechanics mean? Bio means Biological, so your body, and mechanics is how it works mechanically, so alignment and movement.  An assessment of this, looks at how you are aligned and how you move, to detect any abnormalities that could be causing problems for you.  It is good for prevention as well as cure! So can abnormal biomechanics cause problems? Essentially most injuries are caused by a multitude of reasons. This may be overload, weakness, inflexibility, not enough recovery, poor training methods and also poor biomechanics.  Essentially injury will have a biochemical, biomechanical and psychosocial influence of some degree. For example: The causes of Achilles tendinopathy are biomechanical faults, systemic diseases, smoking, age, activity level & obesity according to Van Sterkenburg (2011). and: Biomechanical factors, such as reduc