Unlocking Your Full Potential with Strength Training
Strength training is a fundamental aspect of physical fitness that often gets overlooked. It is a crucial component of a well-rounded fitness program that offers numerous benefits, including building muscle, improving bone density, improving metabolism and boosting mood/ improving mental health. Strength training, or resistance training, involves performing exercises that challenge your muscles to exert […]
Climbers and pulley injuries
Climbing is an addictive sport and gives the entire body a workout. But when it comes to the hands, they are under a lot of stress. One of the most common injuries in climbing is the pulley injury. Pulleys or ‘Annular Ligaments’ are a fibrous connective tissue that loops around the finger like a ring […]
Benefits of Real Time Ultrasound to Assess the ‘Core’ and ‘Floor’
Real time ultrasound (RTUS) is a tool that allows us to view the pelvic floor and abdominal muscles in a minimally invasive way. It provides real-time visual feedback about the way that your muscles and connective tissues are moving. This can be fantastic for people who struggle to know if they are correctly engaging their […]
Posture – Is it really to blame for your neck and upper back pain? What’s really the cause?
Often people come see us with pain in clinic and pass of that it’s likely due to their “terrible posture”. But, what is good posture? Automatically we think sitting or standing upright with our shoulders down and back and head held tall. However, if we were to sit or stand with the best posture all […]
‘PEACE & LOVE’ – Updated injury acronym
Some people may have heard of the acronym ‘RICE’ for an acute injury. This was taught in sports class at schools and was utilised by majority of people with soft tissue injuries. That acronym was then reinvented to RICER, and then PRICE. More recently a different acronym has come to light with the use of […]
Ice or heat? What, when and why?
Throughout our lives we have been told to put ice or heat on bruises and aches or pains. But what’s the difference and why are we doing it? Ice When we use ice on injuries, we call this cryotherapy (cold therapy). There has been records of using ice in surgeries and other medical procedures in […]
Muscle and tendon tears
Many of us have experienced muscle and tendon strains or minor tears, but what happens when the tears are larger and more serious? There are two classifications of tears—traumatic and atraumatic (degenerative)—and within these classifications, we have two grades of severity: Anatomy: What are muscles and tendons? Muscles are a contractile connective tissue made from numerous myofibrils (muscle fibres) containing Actin […]
Touchy Tendons
Tendons are a fibrous connective tissue (a bit like a rope) that connect all our muscles to bones, allowing our limbs to move. As our muscles contract and relax, tendons allow the bones to move like a lever. Tendons also play a large role in shock absorption, which helps prevent muscle injuries. While tendons are […]
Managing the “holicraze”
Presents, family, kids, parties, cooking, work deadlines, hangovers…if you’re feeling stressed and anxious coming into the Christmas holiday rush, we’re going to help you look after your mental health, so you can start the New Year with a bang! There are no two-ways about it: this is a hectic time of year for everyone. As […]
The important relationship between your core and pelvic floor muscles
If you’ve ever worked with a pelvic health physio, you’ll have often heard us say or cue “core and floor”. And if you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it 100 times (and probably say it over in your own head daily – that’s a win for us!). If this is new to you, let us […]