Dominic Richmond

🎉🚨🎉🚨VERY PROUD MOMENT 🎉🚨🎉🚨 ACL rehabilitation has been a specialist interest of mine for the last decade, and I’ve worked as an accredited knee specialist / ACL specialist physio for the last six years - so it means a great deal to land my first publication on the topic. Open access here: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4663/14/5/211 My systematic review looks at the pass rates of return to sports test batteries in people post-ACL reconctruction. Shockingly, just 33% pass. This drops to 26%...

A Changing Era in Knee Surgery Over the past decade, orthopaedic and physiotherapy practice has undergone a major shift: the once-routine arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (APM) for degenerative knee pain is no longer recommended as standard care. What was previously viewed as a quick fix for meniscal tears has, under closer scientific scrutiny, proven no more effective than structured physiotherapy for most non-traumatic presentations. Both NICE and the British Association for Surgery of...

Running Shouldn’t Hurt — But Flare-Ups Are Common You’ve built up your mileage, got your shoes dialled in, and you’re feeling fitter than ever — until that familiar niggle on the outside or front of your knee starts to creep back in. Knee flare-ups are one of the most common complaints among runners I see at The Knee Physio in Bury St Edmunds . The good news? Most aren’t caused by damage — they’re the result of training errors that can be easily corrected. Here are the top five I see week...