Recent SPACE patient Andy Frost competes for Great Britain in the hammer competition in this weekend's Athletics European Team Championships in Stockholm, and Edinburgh's premier Sports Injury clinic wishes him well.
As a hammer thrower he had been suffering from repetitive injuries affecting his knee and hip, and following knee surgery by SPACE orthopaedic consultant Gordon Mackay, he successfully underwent rehabilitation for which he received extensive physio here in SPACE. We spent much time working on the kinetic chain to allow his throwing to be more efficient as well as his gym sessions. He relished the hip workouts and fascial exercises that we devised, and completely altered his warm-ups to reflect some of this work.
Andy managed to finish 4th in the Mens final in Delhi in October's Commonwealth Games for Scotland despite recording 2 no-throws with his first two efforts of the final. This put him under immense pressure to even record a mark, and thus get more throws. Whilst ultimately he was unable to bring a medal back to West Lothian where he lives with his partner and womens' hammer thrower, Susan McKelvie, he was still able to look back with some satisfaction at the season as a whole and plan for 2011.He threw a Personal Best at Loughborough in May of 72.79m which gained him qualification for Stockholm.
HUGE congratulations from us all here at SPACE in Dalry to "McFrost"! Do us proud lad!
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