3 exercises for acute neck pain
March 1, 2024 8:45 am
World of Golf London’s resident physiotherapist, Pat Gilham, takes you through 3 simple exercises to help address acute neck pain. Pat Gillham, Director and Specialist Golf Physiotherapist, Driving Performance Golf Ltd, based at World of Golf London pat.gillham@drivingperfgolf.co.uk
4 exercises for mid back pain
November 1, 2023 4:14 pm
World of Golf London’s resident physiotherapist, Pat Gilham, takes you through 4 simple exercises to help address mid back pain. Pat Gillham, Director and Specialist Golf Physiotherapist, Driving Performance Golf Ltd, based at World of Golf London pat.gillham@drivingperfgolf.co.uk
4 exercises for elbow pain relief
October 1, 2023 4:35 pm
World of Golf London’s resident physiotherapist, Pat Gilham, takes you through 4 simple exercises to help you with elbow pain relief. Pat Gillham, Director and Specialist Golf Physiotherapist, Driving Performance Golf Ltd, based at World of Golf London pat.gillham@drivingperfgolf.co.uk
4 exercises for lower back mobility
September 4, 2023 7:59 am
World of Golf London’s resident physiotherapist, Pat Gilham, takes you through 4 simple exercises to get mobility into your lower back before you tee off. Pat Gillham, Director and Specialist Golf Physiotherapist, Driving Performance Golf Ltd, based at World of Golf London pat.gillham@drivingperfgolf.co.uk
Warm up before you tee off
June 21, 2023 6:18 am
Why should you warm up before you tee off? Well, you might be interested to know that 86% of low-handicap players warm-up before they hit balls, compared with only 29% of high-handicap players? Not only will a warm-up reduce your risk of injury, it can increase your carry distance by 4 yards, and driving accuracy by 6 yards. That could... View Article
How to be smarter on the range to prevent injury!
February 3, 2023 12:45 pm
This month we feature some more helpful tips from our resident physiotherapist at World of Golf London, Pat Gilham – Warm-up before you hit. – Avoid large spikes in the number of balls you hit per practice or the time you hit for. Be gradual week after week. Start with 50-80 balls or 30-45min, and build each week. – Don’t... View Article
More flexibility means more rotation
October 1, 2022 12:55 pm
Did you know that the pelvis and torso rotate to approximately 49˚- 98˚ in the backswing? If this isn’t achieved, it can lead to a shorter backswing. Compensations include lifting the arms more, standing out of posture, more wrist cocking, or bending the lead elbow. This can reduce the quality of contact on your ball, as well as reducing your... View Article
New golf physio clinic to open in February
December 6, 2021 12:02 pm
Pat Gillham is a golf physio of 12 years experience who will be starting a new golf clinic called ‘Driving Performance’ at World of Golf London from February 2022. Pat has helped to rehabilitate golfers of all standards and assisted them back to playing pain-free golf. He’s worked with touring professionals, England age-group golfers, as well as many casual golfers.... View Article
Let’s make the most of this surge in demand
June 30, 2020 7:22 am
World of Golf Master professional Jon Woodroofe, sees another great opportunity for game of golf, if lessons from the past can be heeded The game of golf lends itself to social distancing really well. Let’s be honest, how many times have you seen four players down the middle of the fairway within a metre of each other?! Or even just... View Article
The mental side of golf: What you say affects what you do
June 10, 2019 11:53 am
I guess we are all guilty of the odd expletive on the golf course. After all, this is probably the most frustrating past time ever invented. But we are also aware that sudden explosions of emotion and verbiage affect our play… and not in a positive way! Do we think that “getting that off our chest” releases the frustration and... View Article
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