My back is slowly on the mend. As I have throughout the last 20 years when I have an injury that won’t settle, I have been heading south to Somerset to see my old Physio Ivor Field.
I first saw Ivor when I was 16 or 17. He used to fix my ankles the last time I was really fit when I seemed to twist them every weekend orienteering so I could race X-Country the following Saturday. Mad times but I did eventually rehab them.
Ivor’s skill is getting to the cause of problems, not just treating the symptoms.
Apparently I have two injuries going on at the moment. My lower back has been giving me grief for a while and it seems the jump off the wall and subsequent racing just finished it off. The main underlying issue seems to be a pubic ligament strain, which I think Ive probably had for a year, that coupled with some poor core stability.
So I’ve been down to Taunton twice in the last two weeks. Ivor uses a range of treatments from chiropractic to electro, laser to acupuncture, depending on what’s needed and has also given me lots of exercises to be getting on with. His exercise diagrams are elegantly simple, drawn with a posh ink pen.
Things are improving and today I will get back on the Turbo for 20 mins of leg spinning but I think it will be a long road back to a full training and racing schedule.