About the Clinic
The clinic for all your active health
At Accelerate Performance Centre, we’re passionate about helping runners and active people perform at their full potential. Based within Accelerate Running Store in Sheffield, we bring together a team of experienced therapists, coaches, and specialists who work collaboratively to support your health, fitness, and performance goals. Whether you’re recovering from an injury, training for a race, or simply want to move better, we’re here to help you every step of the way.
Our approach is all about understanding you — your body, your goals, and your challenges. From there, we create a plan that helps you recover, rebuild strength, and return to the activities you love. Below you will find an overview of the services we offer at APC:
Movement and gait analysis:
Movement and gait analysis is a scientific assessment of how an individual walks or runs to understand movement patterns and identify any abnormalities in the person’s gait cycle. At Accelerate Performance Centre, our Movement and Gait Analysis service provides a deep look into how your body moves, allowing us to identify movement inefficiencies, imbalances, and potential risk factors. The goal is simple: help you move better, perform stronger, and reduce your risk of injury.
During your session, our team will assess posture, joint mobility and stability, muscle activation, foot mechanics, and overall movement efficiency. This comprehensive approach allows us to see how your body functions as a whole, from the way your feet strike the ground to how your hips, knees, and shoulders work in unison with each step. We will also identify any areas of weakness or imbalance through functional movements, such as a body weight squat, and note any areas which may need more specific work. Video footage will then be used to demonstrate how you run/walk on a treadmill, and the team can then start to formulate a plan to move forward to help you.
Coaching for running:
Our coaching is tailored to you, your current fitness and your goals. The APC coaches can work across any age and any sport that involves running, including team sports such as football.
Our Coaches offer more than just a training plan:
- Bespoke, periodised training plans
- Road, Track, Trail, Fell and Ultra Running
- Mind Set Coaching and Mental Health
- Running Technique
- Strength and Stability Training
- Mobility and Flexibility
- Lactate Testing for heart rate users
- Group or 1 to 1 Sessions
- Movement and Gait Analysis
‘improving movement and elevating performance’
Sports massage therapy:
Many chronic injuries are a result of tightness or irritation that has gone unchecked. Localised soreness, delayed onset muscle soreness and tight muscles are always better if treated early. We highly recommend ‘a hands on approach’ to dealing with muscular soreness and stiffness through massage and treatments like Dry Needling. Specific techniques such as Muscle Energy Techniques (MET’s), Myofascial release and trigger point therapy help break down adhesion and scar tissue, improve tissue elasticity and joint range of motion. Increased circulation delivers oxygen and nutrients to muscles, speeding recovery and removing waste products like lactic acid. This reduces muscle tightness and soreness, allowing smoother, more efficient movement during training and competition.
A list of the techniques we use at the performance centre include:
- Joint mobilisation
- Soft tissue mobilisation
- Myofascial release
- Cupping
- Dry needling
- Muscle energy techniques
- Trigger point therapy
- Effleurage, petrissage, tapotement, deep tissue
‘Don’t wait for a niggle to become an injury’
Podiatry:
Podiatry focuses on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of conditions affecting the feet, ankles and lower limbs. Whether you’re dealing with heel pain, sports injuries or routine foot health, our experienced HCPC registered podiatrist is here to support your mobility and well-being. We can help with a variety of problems including:
- Calf and shin pain
- Foot and toe pain
- Plantar fasciitis
- Ankle and foot mobility
- Achilles pain and swelling
- Twists and sprains.
- Video Gait Analysis
- Orthoses and Insoles
‘Restoring motion. Building stronger steps’
Lactate testing:
Have you ever wondered how you can optimise your training? Perhaps you have a heart rate monitor and have no idea what numbers are meaningful? If so a lactate test may be the way forward for your training. It is a straightforward way of ensuring you know and understand the right heart rate numbers for you and when you should be using them.
The process involves you running on a treadmill, starting at a comfortable pace. The pace is gradually increased and periodically small blood samples are taken to measure the amount of lactate you are producing. This information if correlated with heart rate and speed measurements to determine your:
- Heart rate training zones
- Aerobic Threshold (LT1)
- Anaerobic Threshold (LT2)
You will also be given time to discuss what the different training zones mean and how you should be using them through your training plan.
‘Discover your unique heart rate training zones, the scientific way’
Mindset coaching and mental health:
Increasingly we find Mental Health a key reason to ‘run for health’. Mindset Coaching is about finding ways and processes to deal with and understand mental issues, for both health-runners and the more competitive. Mindset Coaching is for more than for just running, it is also utilised greatly and successfully for helping with issues arising from everyday life.
