OnTrack Physiotherapy

OnTrack Physiotherapy 'For the athlete in everyone'

Physiotherapy and Performance clinic specialising in sports and running injuries

15/08/2026

Degenerative Meniscal Tears 🤔

I have this conversation every day. It’s one of the most common presentations of knee pain in my GP practice first contact physio clinics.

It is a nuanced area and often lies in this messy middle ground between meniscal pathology and osteoarthritis when it comes to management, leaving patients (and health professionals) confused.

MRI results can often look worrying.

Patients will often tell me “but It’s TORN!? It must need repairing”

If you don’t have the following symptoms
-giving way
-locking
-painful clicking

Conservative (non surgical) management is likely the best option for you. At least at first!

I’m not saying don’t have surgery - I’ve seen a lot of patients do really well post op. I’ve also seen a lot of patients do just as well without an op. That’s all 😁

As always, get it checked out. It’s always difficult to summarise such a complex subject in a reel.

01/08/2026

New location, still OnTrack

has a new home 🏠

✅ central location
✅ free parking
✅ reception team
✅ wheelchair accessible
✅ more appointment availability
✅ new services (coming soon)

📍 Sale Leisure Centre, Broad Road. M33 2AL

13/07/2026

Train to IMPROVE your fitness, not PROVE your fitness 📈

On paper, wednesday’s track session was incredible. 4 X (2k, 1k) running the 2k efforts at half marathon pace and 1km efforts 10k pace.
My garmin numbers agreed. I gained a mark on my VO2 max and had a big increase in acute training load.

But what is taken on one day is borrowed from the next.

My training hangover lasted 3 days, reducing my ability for the rest of the week. My legs felt beat up, as if I’d ran a hard race, I plodded through some easy running on thursday and friday.

The conditions certainly didn’t help. It wasn’t the week to be giving it full send in the heat.

Overall, a solid training week but lesson learnt.

Monday: Easy 50 mins + strength
Tuesday: 45 mins easy to steady
Wednesday: Track 4 x (2k, 1k)
Thursday: 50 mins easy
Friday: 20 mins plod
Saturday: 60 mins progression
Sunday: 1 hour 45 long run.
total: 90km.

Onwards

All of thisIn a friendly, supportive environmentDelivered by clinical specialists Using high-tech equipment For the athl...
03/07/2026

All of this

In a friendly, supportive environment

Delivered by clinical specialists

Using high-tech equipment

For the athlete in everyone

Read more about all our services at ontrackphysio.co.uk

OnTrack Health & Performance

📍 Sale

30/06/2026

We are no longer working with speed medical ❌

This includes Vitality/Aviva/Allianz/medicolegal insured clients.

While this is regretful for those clients who pay for health insurance and seek out our clinic, I make no apologies for taking this step. I do this with a completely clear conscience.

Private healthcare is a massive industry and these large insurance companies are making millions in profit every year. All we ask for is a fair price for our services.

These fees have hardly budged in decades despite inflation and increasing business rates. At some point, you have to say no more.

We are proud of the high quality service we provide and our highly competitive prices. The current fees devalue our profession, our industry, our services and our time.

When negotiating a slight raise in my fees, which would still keep the fee well below our usual prices, I was met with the response “there are clinics in your area charging a lot less than you”.

These insurers are clearly not interested in quality of service and are choosing clinics on price alone. Service quality has always been a core value here at OnTrack, and we only want to work with partners which align with our values and

If you are currently seeing us under a referral with aviva or vitality we will, of course, continue with these sessions until fully completed.

If you are insured with these companies and still want to see us at OnTrack, please do get in touch. There may be a work around via invoicing to part cover your fees, but there’s no guarantees.

This is not an issue of profitability or greed. We are proud to offer discounts for local running clubs and gyms, and free at the point of access physio for athletes who are in financial hardship through the fund at Sale Harriers. This step will allow us to focus our efforts on these other parts of the business and keeping bringing you more of what we do best here.

Insurance companies we are proud to work with:
💜WPA
💚Simply health
💙BUPA
❤️AXA
🩶Healix
💛and others.

Reach out if you’re got any questions,
Cheers,
Marcus

26/06/2026

It’s hot.

Might be too hot 🥵

Recovery sauna available today at OnTrack 🌡️

05/06/2026

Introducing OnTrack Performance Screening 📊

Giving you the data your smartwatch can’t 📈

As runners, we LOVE data.
But truthfully… we rarely measure the things that actually matter.
And when we do, we rarely know what to do with it.

That’s the inspiration behind OnTrack Performance Screening.

A comprehensive, athlete‑focused assessment built by specialist physiotherapists and powered by elite‑level force plates and dynamometers.

Ever wondered if one side of your body is weaker?
If you have injury prone areas?
How you compare to other similar athletes?
What you really need to target in the gym?
How to break through that performance plateau?
How to improve your running form?
Or how to improve your performance aside from training harder and longer?

Then this one’s for you 🫵

As runners, we’ve built this from the ground up with you in mind.

What we assess:
• Mobility / range of motion of key joints and muscles
• Balance
• Max Strength in run-specific movements
• Power including jumping and plyometrics
• Asymmetries between limbs
• Running gait

Your data is then analysed by running specialist physios giving you:
• Key strengths and areas for improvement.
• How to reduce injury risk and improve performance based on your data.
• How you compare to normative data for your sport, age and s*x.
• Personalised feedback including specific exercises, actionable insights and training priorities.
• Optional extras including run coaching / strength & conditioning plans.

Whether you’re chasing a PB, building back from injury, or wanting to understand your body on a deeper level, this has been designed with you in mind.

We’ve already tested this on ourselves and with trusted OnTrack clients — and the insights have been incredibly valuable. It’s already helping us understand our strengths, weaknesses, and exactly how to improve performance.

New service coming soon! 🏃‍♂️ 💪 📈 📊 It feels like this has been a long time coming. We’ve invested in some incredible ne...
28/05/2026

New service coming soon! 🏃‍♂️ 💪 📈 📊

It feels like this has been a long time coming.

We’ve invested in some incredible new tech.

We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to build a comprehensive, elite level service.

We’ve had some of our trusted OnTrack clients put it to the test.

Can’t wait to share this with you all next week 🚀

26/05/2026

Runners.

Something new is coming 🔜

Built by runners.

Powered by elite‑level tech

We can’t wait to share it with you all

Let’s go 🔥

29/04/2026

🍌 Anterior Tibia (front of the shin) Pain 🍌

I’ve run through a lot of niggles in my time as an endurance runner but this is one that did concern me last week, and there’s good reason for that.

With a recent increase in training including more plyos/intensity on the track I am at higher risk of a bone stress injury.

Add to that a painful single leg hop which is a key indicator for potential bone stress injury.

Should we run on a suspected bone stress injury?

The answer to that question generally ranges from “no” to “absolutely f****g not” ❌

The anterior tibia is one of the latter.

Images from running injuries course. Much of what I know about bone stress injuries is thanks to his courses and research 🙏

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