BASRaT-reg Sport Rehabber, managing T1D with LCHP. Passionate about lifestyle and exercise. Dad to a ten year old MTBing daughter!
Shropshire
Joined June 2011
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Stephen Aspinall retweeted
3 sets of repeated chair stands (5 or 10 reps per set), 3 times per week.
Sound feasible?
Over 8 weeks, this was enough to improve:
Muscle thickness: ⬆️8-9%
Muscle quality index: ⬆️40-45%
Relative sit-to-stand power: ⬆️29-38%
Resistance training doesn’t have to be fancy to be effective.
peerj.com/articles/15665/
A stunning day in the Shropshire Hills. Mountain bikes and icy downhill trails are a tonic for the soul!
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Proud to be wearing my @FreehabUK beanie on the walk back from school this morning, a social enterprise with heart!
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Stephen Aspinall retweeted
Good morning #medtwitter! Today we would like to share with us this amazing #anatomy case of upper extremity. In this cadaveric video you can witness the relationship of scapula to latissimus dorsi. #orthotwitter #scientissimum 💪🏼
Stephen Aspinall retweeted
Our two new spinal MRI leaflets, one for clinicians and another for patients, which aim to reduce unwarranted variation in requests for MRI scans for spinal conditions are now available on the NHSE website
england.nhs.uk/publication/m….
#BestMSKhealth
Stephen Aspinall retweeted
Sport Rehabilitators - you can now go global!
BASRaT has become a full member of the International Agreement meaning that GSRs can work overseas in Canada, America and Ireland.
Interested in applying for this process? Find out more by visiting –
basrat.org/member/internatio…
Fifty Shades of Black at Bike Park Wales, a lovely way to spend the day before my 50th birthday. But why do the scariest features always look so innocuous 🤣
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After a light bike week, it was nice to get into the Welsh mountains & push on 😁 slight BG catecholamine spike to 7.4; some of the jump lines were a bit slippy at speed. Got moaned at for being on an ebike. Sadly my 16 kg enduro bike is battery free 😂
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It will be interesting to see how this develops:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3425…
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There are certainties with diabetes. On that rare occasion you forget to change CGM from vibrate to sound at night. For me, it always coincides with the equally rare something that goes very wrong with insulin delivery. 🤦🏻 16 mmol is lovely to wake up to 😂
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Stephen Aspinall retweeted
*** New Blog Post ***
‘Dear Clinician’
A letter to a combination of the clinicians I had in the first four years of my ‘routine’ care.
I needed more person centred, evidence-based care.
Very therapeutic writing it!
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@MattLowPT @PhysioPainAssoc
livingwellpain.net/dear-clin…
Stephen Aspinall retweeted
Happy #AHPDay to all my amazing #AHP colleagues @WWLNHS @wwl_mskphysios @PennygateMC @BASRaTorg You make my job much better with your skills and hard work. A big THANK YOU to all of you #AHPsday2021
1/2 I sometimes forget how amazing the adaptation to #typeonegrit has been for me. Yesterday PM, I did 60mins of high & a couple of hours of moderate intensity exercise (MTB), including several full on downhill runs. I ate a largely protein early breakfast…
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3/3 & no dips at night. Feeling fresh & strong for another ride today. A few years ago, it would be 120g carbs during the ride, lots straight after, loads of BG drops during and overnight & lots of messing about with basal rates, then feeling knackered today.
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It’s worth adding that #type1diabetes is definitely not easy for me & it’s still a challenge on many days; exercise however is mostly easy, and mountain biking with the ability to throw in high intensity and fear is a brilliant mode of exercise for me!
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