by Mark Hokan | Mar 3, 2021 | injury prevention, osteopath, running injury
How to improve your hip mobility With gyms still being closed, more and more people are taking up running as their form of exercise. This is great news and we as a team definitely would encourage it. However, impact can take its toll on the body and the hips...
by Mark Hokan | Jul 23, 2020 | osteopath, Uncategorised
Purus Owner and Lead Osteopath Mark Hokan recently discussed performance Osteopathy with Simon Carty from Amino Water. He describes the journey from personal training to osteopathy and how he now applies it to the athletic performace world including athletics and...
by Mark Hokan | May 15, 2020 | osteopath
The Purus team would like to announce the reopening of Purus Osteopathy & Sports Massage – Covent Garden and Victoria from Monday May 18th. We will be open for Osteopathy and Sports Massage for urgent and non-urgent patients. We are determined to eliminate the...
by Mark Hokan | Apr 2, 2020 | injury prevention, ITB syndrome, osteopath, running injury
Andrea Smith, one of our expert Osteopaths at Purus Victoria, explains why using a foam roller on your ITB is not a good idea. This is useful for runners and cyclists. Why NOT to foam roller your IT-band Marathon season is upon us, which means lots of runners (and...
by Mark Hokan | May 13, 2019 | geneva marathon, marathon, osteopath, sports massage
May 12th 2019 was the date of the Geneva Marathon and lead Osteopath Marks 16th! He chose this one due to timing of the year, easy to get to and mainly due to another rejection from the London marathon! We asked him a few questions about how it went – How did...
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