Archive for February, 2009

Wee Tip – Know your rights

Recently, I have heard as happens every year, there are a number of people claiming to be physios, working in the area providing massages and more scarily physio treatments. 
Some facts for your to know, firstly, you should always, as I have previously explained in my pages on the legal bits, ask if your physio is [...]

Wee Tip – Holiday Insurance

Again more snow in Les Gets, more than some of the higher resorts now, (guess that will be global warming too).
It never fails to amaze me how, every year I visit clients who have not taken out any holiday insurance when coming on a ski holiday!  Its not always young skint students who don’t want [...]

Wee Tip for Your Back

Once again it is snowing in Les Gets and within school holidays, sun is due tomorrow.  I am reliably informed that there is over 2m of snow on the piste now, so should be enough thankyou until the end of the season.
However, with all this snow and the “flat light”, i.e. where you can’t see [...]

Wee Tip Encore

For all those getting excited about coming to Les Gets, Morzine and St Jean d’Aulpes for their February holidays, this is for you.  We hava just had another 50cm of new snow, more forecast this week. 
Remember, firstly, you need to keep your ski boots tight, not so tight they cut the circulation though, I usually [...]

A Wee Tip

Recently, I have seen a few injuries, varying from shoulder injuries to back strains.  One thing, if you injur yourself, seek help from a physio or qualified person earlier, rather than later, as often things can be calmed down or fixed more easily, the earlier we see them.
On a ski holiday lasting one week, I [...]

Cruciate Injuries 2

Just another thing to think about if you are told you have a complete rupture to your cruciate, you may well have, but the current research says that without an MRI test it is never 100% sure that you have a complete tear or partial.  There was some research a few years ago which, in [...]