Managing Recurrent Ankle Sprains: Relieving Knee and Hip Pain with Glute Exercises
Recurrent ankle sprains can be frustrating and debilitating, not just in isolation but also due to their impact on other areas of the body. Beyond ...
Read More →
Looking to get stronger? Come and see us for Clinical Rehabilitation and Pilates
What is Clinical Rehabilitation and Pilates? Clinical Rehabilitation and Pilates is used for patient-specific treatment after an injury or surgery. It differs from Pilates because ...
Read More →
Single Leg Stability? What’s that and why is it so important!
Poor single-leg stability and strength can play a big role in contributing to the niggles and injuries we may encounter throughout our life. As you ...
Read More →
Should We Completely Rest After An Injury?
Below is a quick summary on PAIN – and as pain is the number one reason as to why patients come to our clinics, an accurate understanding ...
Read More →
Glute function and running
I’m sure you can agree that we have all had some form of tightness or niggle after doing exercise especially running post a time of ...
Read More →
Why Do You Keep Getting Injured?
What do you think is the biggest predictor for future injury? No, it is not your weight No, it is not your BMI No, it ...
Read More →
3 Tips for Ankle Sprains
An inversion ankle sprain (rolled inwards) is one of the most common injuries seen on the sporting field or court. Due to often a great ...
Read More →
Tight hips? To Stretch or Strengthen……that is the question!
“My hips always feel tight, or pinch when I walk, sit or squat at the gym. What the hell?” We hear this a lot in ...
Read More →
2 Things To Do Straight Away When You Have An Injured Tendon
Stop stretching Injured tendons can be aggravated by compressive forces – i.e. compressing the tendon into bone Stretching an injured tendon (think stretching the calf ...
Read More →
Crunches For A Stronger Back And Core? Ummmmm….. Maybe Not!
The traditional abdominal crunch – a staple exercise that is being undertaken in most gyms around the world for the last 100 years – mainly ...
Read More →
Prevention Really Is Best When It Comes To Injury Management
The first step of injury management is doing all you can to prevent an injury in the first place. Osteopaths are not solely focused on ...
Read More →
Why Upper Body Strength Is Important In Cycling And Triathlon
When we think about muscles we need to work on for riding a bike, the last thing we tend to consider are those through our ...
Read More →
3 Reasons Why Your Knee Hurts
“My knee hurts” – at the Sports & Spinal Group, we hear this everyday! Whether it is a little child, their parent or grandparent, knee ...
Read More →
It’s All In The Hips, It’s All In The Hips, It’s All In The Hips
“It has been all about the ass for more than two million years. When man first raised his hands off the ground to become bipedal, ...
Read More →
Earn The Right To Train
One of the most common scenarios that present to us at the Sports & Spinal Group is a patient attending with an injury that has ...
Read More →
Why We Do What We Do
Last week, I walked down the long, shopping strip that one of our practices is located. From start to finish, I counted 3 physiotherapy clinics, ...
Read More →
In The Gym & Injury Free
I was in my back yard a few weeks ago running through the routine spring clean of collecting deadwood and leaves to be burnt off ...
Read More →
Distance Running Do’s and Don’ts
Over the last few weeks I’ve been treating a lot of patients in preparation for this year’s Melbourne Marathon trying to get them ready for ...
Read More →