Snow Season 2022 Blog 1 – Pre-Season Workout
While for beginners, both snowboarding and skiing strength workouts are similar, as you begin to progress in abilities then the workouts start to look very different. As with any activity,…
Cricket injuries – the most common and what to do to make it to finals!
First of all cricket gets your body into all sorts of unique positions – especially bowling! So its important to make sure that you are monitoring your loads be that…
Keeping your feet in the snow
It doesn’t matter if you take to skis or a snowboard, you will need lower limb and core strength and stability in order to maximise your fun. We derive much…
It’s Tennis Season
A common injury associated with racquet sports is Tennis elbow and it usually begins with pain around the outside of the forearm or elbow. Here is some information to help…
Aussie Summer of Cricket!
And it did! Being the physio and cricket nerd I am, my university dissertation was on bowling workloads and the risk of injury. So I decided to put into practice…
Need a bike assessment?
You may have noticed the bike paths are more crowded than usual with cyclists ranging from families strolling along the many trails throughout Melbourne to the weekend warriors dusting off…
My shoulder is unstable…
David Frances made the all important point that the true ability to diagnose a shoulder presentation is in the assessment. It is all too often that clinicians do not take…
Swimmer’s Shoulder Prevention
The presenters were experts in the field including Kylie Holt, Senior Sports Physiotherapist who works for Swimming Australia. In our March professional development session, Zoe and Sarah shared their new…
How To Structure Your Cycling Strength Program
The way strengthening programs are structured is called periodisation, essentially a structured annual plan with changing training variables over time in order to maximise training adaptations and performance. The most…
How to improve your cycling efficiency through a strengthening program!
So how do we become efficient? One way is the bike setup, specifically adjusting the saddle and handlebar positions and making the bike lighter. Though the best fitted bike may…