Ask a physio: Is it OK for my teenager to go to the gym? Short answer – yes, absolutely! If anything, resistance training at the gym would likely be of benefit to teenagers, particularly to improve their sporting performance and reduce the risk of injury. Weight training has previously been avoided mainly due to the […]
Tag: injury
Needling away sports injuries
Needling away sports injuries Did you know that it is estimated that 5.2 million Australians injure themselves in a sporting incident each year? (Medibank Private 2006). If you have heard this statistic, you might be one of the many Australians who have a sports injury to their name. But if you, or anyone you know, […]
Acupuncture & Pain: Eastern Medicine meets Western Research.
Acupuncture & Pain: Eastern Medicine meets Western Research. Although acupuncture has been used for a long time as a way to regulate the system, it’s only in recent years its regained momentum in its use. Our understanding from a Western perspective is growing on how this form of medicine, that’s been developed over the past […]
How to do to avoid injury in the new year
I’m going to paint a picture here and just want you to think, Is this my situation? The majority of the injuries I see in clinic at the beginning of a new year tend to be injuries involving people going a little too hard, a little too soon, with their training. How injuries occur in […]
Treat the ring not the hole
As much as I love doughnuts, this isn’t the reason I’m posting a picture of one. When dealing with a tendinopathy, it is easy to get tunnel vision because the MRI or ultrasound you had revealed a tendinopathy, tendinitis, or some sort of degenerative chance (the hole). What the same scan also shows, but never […]
Resting An Injury Does Not Mean Stop Moving And Sleep!
Time and time again, when asking patients “what have you done to in order to help?” upon first meeting them, I am usually hit with something like: “I have stopped going to the gym and rested for the last few months” I would argue, that complete rest, is not the answer. What is vital for […]
Training Volume: What Does It Mean For Injury Prevention And Optimising Performance?
One of the most overlooked factors when analysing onset of injuries is training volume. Training volume is the combination of total time spent training and the intensity that training is performed at. What we are concerned about is acute (recent) overload in training volume which can exceed our body’s ability to adapt and recover from […]
What You Don’t Know About Sleep
Sleep is one of the most overlooked variables when it comes to behaviours and that can effect our risk of injury, pain perception and rate of healing. Here you can see how the likelihood of injury based on how many hours of sleep decreases significantly once you reach ~8hr per night. Sleep isn’t just injury […]
