Swimming is a low-impact sport enjoyed by people of all ages, but it’s not entirely risk-free. Repetitive strokes and prolonged training sessions can lead to swimming injuries that reduce your performance in the water and affect your everyday life. Working with our...
At our adolescent sports injury clinic in Redcliffe, we work with teens who are passionate about their sport but struggling with pain, tightness, or fatigue that just doesn’t go away. These problems are often the result of juggling multiple sports throughout the year,...
There are benefits of physiotherapy for athletes. To find out more about sports injury physiotherapy, here’s five of the top benefits for all skill levels.
Sports injury physiotherapy focuses on the rehabilitation of an injury resulting from sports or exercise. It also increases sports performance and assists in injury prevention. Because athletes have a higher risk of injury, progress can be interrupted due to one....
If you have suffered an injury from participating in a sporting event, chances are that you either did not stretch beforehand, or possibly performed the stretching exercises incorrectly.Before you stretch, you should warm up your body with light exercise. This can be...
Being a youngster in sport is both exciting and character building. However, there is nothing more frustrating to young sportsmen and women than getting injured. Every day, parents ask me questions about how to keep their children fit and injury free. I...
Nearly every injury will respond well when you learn to load it well. This is the reason load management is so crucial in rehabilitation!Yet so often we will neglect this most important element of treatment.If we all learnt to apply this principle of load management...
Injuries are a part of all sports; add in the full contact and competitive nature of combat sports they become even more common. Most questions I hear in the gym in regards to training is how to mitigate injuries. The single most important thing you can do to reduce...
As a combat sports athlete we’ve all experienced injuries that have kept us off the mats; they never heal as quickly as we’d like, but eventually we’re able to return to full training. For some unlucky ones, no matter what they do can’t seem to kick their injuries....
I have been training judo for four years and Brazilian jiu jitsu for just over two years now, and I absolutely love it. During a recent holiday I was training up to three times a day, and during my regular working week I train around ten hours a week on the mats....