http://gailheatley.com Physio in Les Gets & Morzine Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:52:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For those coming at Easter to Les Gets, good news, we have had fresh snow. With temperatures of 32dgs on our balcony (in the sun of course) last Wednesday, to 0dgrs another 30cm of new snow over yesterday and today, you could say spring snow conditions. A bit ... http://gailheatley.com/2010/03/28/sprinng-snow-les-gets/ A quick reminder, if you are unfortunate enough to twist a knee or back in the soft snow, please contact me, there are lots of things I can do to help ease/protect, in order to be able to ski a bit longer, (Text me on the above no. anytime, to ... http://gailheatley.com/2010/03/16/spring-snow-continued/ To all those out there coming soon to Les Gets, its near spring, the snow is turning to spring snow, i.e crispy the morning soft at lunch, a bit mush after lunch and sugary in the evening! Can you believe all the different types, so take care of your ... http://gailheatley.com/2010/03/16/spring-snow/ In continuation to my previous post on the risk of avalanches. Please take care when on the piste or off piste. You should know the signs of danger marked on the piste, for example the flag for avalanche is yellow and black squares and is usually at the bottom ... http://gailheatley.com/2010/02/28/off-piste/ Perhaps you are one of the lucky ones coming this week to Les Gets/Morzine area for a ski holiday. It is currently snowing again, however, we have had one or two days of mild weather as a result the snow is transforming and heavy in places, take care of ... http://gailheatley.com/2010/02/19/snow-transforming/ Well the begining of February is the start of some school holidays, especially the North of France. Conditions are great with a fresh 40cm having fallen over the past days and more due this week. A word of warning if you are out there there are lots of different snow types just ... http://gailheatley.com/2010/02/07/school-holidays-are-here-for-some/ Just a note when you are here and perhaps have an injury, remember there is research to prove that soft tissue injuries (eg ligaments, muscles, tendons etc), are healed much quicker, the quicker you have physio.... research to prove!...http://www.iscp.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=577&Itemid=483 so if no one suggests physio for you give me ... http://gailheatley.com/2010/01/18/soft-tissue-injuries/ If you are about to ski in and around Les Gets, for those of you maybe not so experienced and the experienced, remember that the Eskimos have I think 26 words for "snow"! In otherwords there are so many different textures/types of snow, with varying temperatures you can have ... http://gailheatley.com/2010/01/18/snow-types/ I have recently had a lot of sports massages to do and two questions come into mind; firstly, why to people think a sports massage which does not cause a huge amount of pain is not effective? Secondly, why do people ask for deep as possible massages (with pain ... http://gailheatley.com/2010/01/03/sports-massages/ Just a wee note of warming up and taking care. The powder is here in Les Gets, however, the beginning of the season. A word of warning, even those of you young things, take a moment to warm up those ligaments, knees, hips, backs in order to ... http://gailheatley.com/2009/12/19/powder-here/