Our articles are not designed to replace medical advice. If you have an injury we recommend seeing a qualified health professional. To book an appointment with Tom Goom (AKA ‘The Running Physio’) visit our clinic page. We offer both in-person assessments and online consultations.
I love a good bridge! It’s such as simple exercise and there are so many ways you can adapt it to suit a patient’s needs. It can be a low-level exercise that can often be tolerated even when irritable or progressed to a high-level challenge to build strength or power.
Bridges can form part of your management of a number of injuries such as Iliotibial Band Syndrome (ITBS). Find out how to assess and treat this challenging condition in our free webinar series.
There are 5 ways you can adapt the bridge exercise that we discuss in our video below. These approaches can be used to adapt any exercise to suit your rehab goals and get great results.