Dancers are commonly prone to aches and pains because of the high demand of training load and performance, whether this be at a recreational, amateur or professional level. According to the most recent 2018 Safe Dance study, 97% of professional dancers in Australia reported at least one injury in their career. Common dance injuries include … Continued
Load management Monitoring and managing your load through the initial weeks of training post-lockdown is vitally important. We must remember that whilst many of us have been training throughout lockdown, our load profile may have changed. Typically, this will look like an increase in volume and decrease in amount of load resulting in an increase … Continued
If you are like me (someone who has always been as stiff as a brick house), understanding hypermobility took me a while to wrap my head around. Coming from a team sport background, very rarely have I played with hypermobile athletes and it wasn’t until I started coaching female athletes and moved into the Pilates … Continued
So, we can all agree 2020 wasn’t ideal but as it stands, the outlook for 2021 is already looking exponentially brighter. Stephen King once said, “a person who doesn’t learn from the past is an idiot”. Whilst this is relatively blunt, it also rings true for many of the musculoskeletal complaints we as health practitioners … Continued
Well, what a year 2020 was.. Let’s say hello to a better, healthier 2021! Locked-down in Victoria for 111 days, meant that many of us delved into new exercise and training regimes and even gave online ‘Zoom’ classes a red hot go! Over the last couple of months as gyms, Pilates and yoga studios have … Continued
There’s often confusion around how and when training should be structured. Some practitioners will tell you to train more, some will say less. For example, it is quite common to read ‘perform daily’ on a rehab or training program and so to, for a more intense training program to read ‘perform 3-4 times per week’. … Continued
This blog helps to explain why exercise rehab for optimum injury recovery is so important and how correct clinical rehabilitation can not only improve outcomes but reduce your overall risk of re-injury. Okay, so here’s how we GENERALLY see it as practitioners! Please Note: This isn’t applicable to all clients. People usually come to see … Continued
As for any career, there is always one part of your job that you dislike. For me as a physiotherapist, that part is telling my clients they need to rest from the respective sport or training that is aggravating their injury. Not only is delivering this news hard for me because I want to be … Continued
As a physiotherapist, I frequently use dry needling as a treatment modality and one of the most common questions I get asked is – what is the difference between dry needling and acupuncture. Dry needling and acupuncture both involve puncturing the skin with thin filament needles for therapeutic purposes. While they use similar needles and … Continued
Shoulder pain is a very common complaint in today’s society and often becomes a lifelong issue for a lot of people. Data from the Australian Medicare Benefits Scheme indicates that shoulder problems were the third most common reason for imaging between July 2016 and June 2017. Throughout life we sustain injuries that linger and often … Continued