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Kate Sheehy is a leading physiotherapist, distinguished lecturer and published author.

During her 28-year career, she has treated everyone from babies with colic, office and manual workers with back pain, and older people with mobility problems through to amateur sports people and world-class athletes.



Kate has practices in Richmond, Roehampton and Fulham.

It's All In The Balance

'It's All In The Balance'

Marathon

Q. I’m in the marathon for the first time this year – I’ve just reached the 18 mile stage in my training. Do you have any advice for me.

Your natural knee brace

What's the cruciate ligament? There are two of them actually, the cruciate ligaments are in your knee, ligaments run from bone to bone and generally are arranged to hold things together.

How to prepare for skiing and snowboarding

So if I'm going off to the slopes, what's the best thing to do?

Inflammation is your body's defence mechanism

Say you're wearing a new pair of shoes and you can feel them rubbing a bit, when you get home and take them off, you find you've got a blister.

Ligaments vs tendons

Ligament runs from bone to bone and tendons run from muscle to bone.

How to stretch after sport

It's better to think about a slow sustained gentle stretch, and to hold each stretch for 15 - 20 seconds.