Everyone’s An Expert On Ankle Sprains Ankle sprains are a common injury occurring across many sporting codes. Spraining your ankle is especially common in soccer as well as other footballing codes as well as any jumping and landing sports such as basketball, netball and volleyball… Sports that involving running, jumping and changing direction often have… Read More >
ACL Reconstruction Is A Highly Successful Surgery Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction surgery is a very common elective surgery in Australia and from a physiotherapy perspective are one of the most common post surgical rehabilitation programs that physiotherapists play an active role in. In my experience an ACL reconstruction is a surgery which has a… Read More >
Hamstring Strain Common With Sprinting Hamstring injuries are both an equally common and frustrating injury for athletes involved in sprinting sports to experience. Frustrating because following injury there is always a recovery period required but more so because a hamstring strain is an injury that tends to have high recurrence rates with some reports suggesting… Read More >
Hamstring Strain Season Is Upon Us For many of our Sydney based weekend warriors we have just seen the conclusion of the winter sports season with finals occurring last weekend across many of the netball and football codes. Leading up to these finals series I am sure like ours there where many Sydney based physio… Read More >
Shockwave Therapy: A Not So New Tool In Physiotherapy More accurately referred to as extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT in short) shockwave therapy in 2022 is now commonplace as a treatment modality provided in physiotherapy clinics across Sydney and Australia wide. The word “extracorporeal” refers to any procedure performed outside the body and with ESWT shockwaves… Read More >
Creaky Knees Is Medically Known As Audible Crepitus Almost daily in our Randwick and Sydney CBD physio practices I would have patients coming to me expressing concern around having noticed they have creaky knees. Frequently, these patients will be complaining that their knees are making sounds when performing squatting or bending movements, or when going… Read More >
TENS Machines And Physiotherapy Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation or T.E.N.S. for short is a electrotherapeutic device commonly used in physiotherapy and other allied medical fields such as midwifery and chiropractic care. In the acronym TENS, the “T” stands for “transcutaneous”, a word that simply means “across the skin”. Therefore a TENS unit basically stimulates your… Read More >
What Do The Different Coloured Exercise Bands Mean? So, you’ve been advised to start some strength exercises using exercise bands and don’t know what colour/s to get..? Exercise bands are also frequently referred to as resistance bands or sometimes Therabands after one of the original brands of resistance band. They are a common exercise tool… Read More >
A Stiff Big Toe Is A Big Deal The big toe joint anatomically known as the 1st metatarsophalangeal joint is the most common site of arthritis in the foot. The big toe joint is crucial when moving seeing as with every step taken the metatarsophalangeal (MTP) joint has to bend and if you develop a… Read More >
Preparing For A THR A total hip replacement or THR in short has become a relatively common procedure with tens of thousands Australians having a hip replacement each year. Pre-surgery appropriate preparation can help by both speeding up recovery after surgery and ensuring a good long term outcome. How To Prepare For Your THR Surgery:… Read More >